Who to play with Vel'Koz — best team synergies

Life Form Disintegration Ray (R) is a beam you steer by hand along a line: after Unstoppable Force (R) they are airborne and stacked in one spot, so the line catches all of them at once and each collects the marks you need.

Your problem is that the channel outlasts whatever set it up: Bellows Breath (W) applies Brittle, worth 30% more duration on whichever lockdown lands next, and the ram from Call of the Forge God (R) tosses up everyone it touches.

Fate Sealed (R) hits everything along its path and knocks the group together: it hands you the exact shape your beam is looking for, four bodies held in the air and lined up one behind the other.

Your page says crowd control mid-channel wastes the entire cast: Shadow Dash (E) taunts the diver before he arrives and Stand United (R) shields you while you are already channelling, from wherever he happens to be.

It only counts if he plays the game next to you instead of in a side lane: Footwork (E) dashes to you and leaves you the same shield, and the third Ntofo Strikes (Q) pulls a target in with a 0.75-second stun.

A taunted target neither dodges nor interrupts you: Frenzying Taunt (E) nails their carry down for as long as you need to put three Organic Deconstruction (P) marks on her and then open the beam, which by then is true damage.

The Cataclysm (R) arena takes away the one defence they have against you, which is moving: inside that ring your beam sweeps from one body to the next and nobody steps off the line while you steer it.

Curse of the Sad Mummy (R) freezes the group for 1.5 seconds, which is time enough to drop Void Rift (W) and Plasma Fission (Q) on all of them and reach three marks. The beam then sweeps through when magic resist no longer matters.

You stand still and exposed for the length of the channel, and that is exactly when they jump you: Crescent Guard (R) throws off everyone but his marked target and eats ranged damage, clearing the space around you mid-cast.

Only if your team plays for picks: nothing stops Vi once Cease and Desist (R) is out, and it drops their carry in front of you, knocked up with nobody covering her. In a grouped fight she brings single-target damage and little else.

Your page says disciplined dodging denies you both the damage and the marks: against Frost Shot (P), which slows on every single hit, dodging stops being an option. Enchanted Crystal Arrow (R) then opens your channel from off-screen.

What you need is enemies held still and lined up, and that is literally the job of Chain of Corruption (R): the root chains from one body to the next from off-screen and leaves three or four of them frozen on one line.

A single Plasma Fission (Q) bolt counts as ally damage and arms his Deadly Flourish (W) root: that root is the window where you land the third mark and open the beam with no risk of steering it into nothing.

This is the siege pairing: you and Trueshot Barrage (R) grind them down from outside their range, and a team that cannot get in simply loses the tower. It also matters that Arcane Shift (E) saves him alone, since you peel for nobody.

Your two ultimates ask for the very same thing, enemies held still and close together, and neither of you creates it: without someone else opening that window you are two stationary channels side by side. When it opens, the fight ends.

The flaw written on your page is that one stun mid-channel throws the entire ultimate away: Black Shield (E) absorbs precisely that. Her Dark Binding (Q) roots for two seconds, the motionless target your beam cannot miss.

The 35% damage cut and the projectiles Unbreakable (E) swallows are what let you stay still and channel instead of backing off. And Glacial Fissure (R) lifts a whole row of enemies, which is your beam's shape handed over.

Inside The Box (R) a 99% slow works like a root: whoever gets caught there picks up three Organic Deconstruction (P) marks before they understand what is happening, and the beam lands on someone who cannot move away.

Zenith Blade (E) roots and Shield of Daybreak (Q) stuns right after it: close to two unbroken seconds on one target, enough to take them to three marks and then hold the beam on them all the way to the end.

Focused Resolve (W) is not guaranteed crowd control and if they break the tether you are left with poke, which is why it only half counts. When it holds it roots two targets from range, and a Mantra (P) Inspire (E) finishes your channel.