Vel'Koz with Yorick
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Yorick
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Vel'Koz Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Yorick
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Advice to Understand How Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Vel'Koz Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vel'Koz sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Yorick. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Yorick helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Yorick, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Yorick doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Yorick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yorick.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Yorick on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Vel'Koz in teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Yorick
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no one best synergy for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Yorick is a very typical companion for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Vel'Koz and Yorick that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Yorick comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Vel'Koz players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Vel'Koz and Yorick together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Yorick ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz to pair well with Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz and Yorick synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Yorick than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when playing alongside Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Vel'Koz and Yorick pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Yorick with Vel'Koz are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.