Vel'Koz with Maokai
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Maokai
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Vel'Koz Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Vel'Koz Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Maokai, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This could indicate that Maokai helps provide cover 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 together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Maokai on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top companion for Vel'Koz that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a very typical ally for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same side as Vel'Koz, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Vel'Koz and Maokai that results in them performing better together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be careful when arranging Maokai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Vel'Koz players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Vel'Koz and Maokai together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Vel'Koz in order to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Vel'Koz and Maokai synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Frozen Heart, and Rod of Ages. When Vel'Koz used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with many other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Vel'Koz and Maokai pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
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