Warwick with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Warwick and Vel'Koz
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Warwick Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Warwick and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Warwick with Vel'Koz
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
Advice to Understand How Vel'Koz Will Play
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.
Warwick Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Warwick in LoL
The Warwick Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Warwick sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vel'Koz helps Warwick perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Warwick is paired with Vel'Koz, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Vel'Koz provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Warwick is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Warwick plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Warwick in team fights.
Synergies between Warwick and Vel'Koz
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Is Warwick better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best ally for Warwick that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Vel'Koz is a pretty good ally for Warwick. By locking into the same side as Warwick, he increases their win rate by 2.7% to 52.0%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Warwick and Vel'Koz that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Warwick. That means you must be cautious when finding Vel'Koz allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Warwick and Vel'Koz together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Warwick to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Warwick and Vel'Koz synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with most other typical builds. In fact, Warwick had an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Warwick players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
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