Vel'Koz with Zilean
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Zilean
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Vel'Koz Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Vel'Koz Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Zilean, he sees a sizeable uptick in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Zilean supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Zilean 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 with Zilean.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Zilean on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz during teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Zilean
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top ally for Vel'Koz that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Zilean is a below average teammate for Vel'Koz. By being on the same side as Vel'Koz, he drops their win rate by -2.6% to 47.7%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Vel'Koz and Zilean that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be cautious when arranging Zilean allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Vel'Koz and Zilean together, you will not be giving your team much AD. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Vel'Koz and Zilean synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 47.7% helping carry Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance 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. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.7% winrate overall.
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