Vel'Koz with Draven
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Draven
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Vel'Koz Draven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Draven
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Draven
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 Draven Will Play
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
Vel'Koz Draven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Draven as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Draven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Draven, 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 Draven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Draven helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Draven, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Draven does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Draven on the same team, 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 Draven.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Draven on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Draven does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz during teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Draven?
There is no perfect ally for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Draven is a good ally for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he increases their win rate by 1.6% to 51.9%. This shows that there is a good bond between Vel'Koz and Draven that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Draven has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Draven comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Vel'Koz and Draven together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Draven ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to synergize with Draven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Vel'Koz and Draven 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 did significantly better when paired up with Draven than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing alongside Draven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
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