Vel'Koz with Zac
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Zac
based on 1,638 Vel'Koz with Zac pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Zac Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Zac
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Vel'Koz Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zac. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zac helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Zac, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Zac does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Zac on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zac.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Zac on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zac does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz in team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Zac
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Zac?
There is no ideal companion for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Zac is a pretty good companion for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same side as Vel'Koz, he improves their win rate by 2.0% to 52.3%. This signals that there is a good bond between Vel'Koz and Zac that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Zac has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Zac comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Vel'Koz players will likely witness 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 grouping Vel'Koz and Zac together, you will not be giving your team a lot of AD. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Zac teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to pair well with Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Vel'Koz and Zac synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Zac than with most other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 52.3% helping carry Zac with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Vel'Koz and Zac pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Zac with Vel'Koz are presented for every ranked division. To filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.