I am desperate for tips

Aragorne1··2 votes·1,412 views
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Hello,

I am currently trying to climb out of gold, and I've been met with unfortunate fate while trying to complete Gold I promotions to Platinum V. When I am playing out of promotions, games are going rather fine and I enjoy them, but when I am trying to do promotions, it feels like everything flipped upside down for me.

It's been rather common I am being matched with feeding/toxic teammates or people banning each others champions, that's not what this topic is about though.

How can I improve my impact on game, how do you guys deal with situations like this, where every lane is failing, people are not cooperating or just outright feeding

Can anyone point out what should I focus on in my games, what can I do to improve how my games are currently going, I am really sad how these games are turning out in promotions. I am playing midlane as my main position

Any feedback is precious to me, Thank you.

Velkoz

Edit: I tried to mix things up, went support but our self-proclaimed smurf mid went 1/8, top 1/5, we lost in 18 minutes and 27 seconds, guess I need to stick to midlane

4 Comments

usul12024 votes

Hi, 700k mastery velkoz main here (d5, so effectively plat 1). Looked over your op.gg and saw a few things right off the bat. It appears you're liandries rushing in every single game, which is not a good call. Second iteming it should be a very rare choice against like, Cho mid. Velkoz has a very adaptable build path; when behind/against super squish teams, you should be rushing a morellos with your sorc shoes. Against mr stacker, you can even third item a void staff. You can also high AP rush or defensive rush with banshees/zhonyas.

There's also the glacial augment build which is 100% abusable before it gets nerfed, glp into twin shadows into pen. Midgame this gives you a lot of safety against anyone running at you, and makes landing your combo on speedsters like jhin very easy. I'd recommend trying it out in a few normals first, as it is a massive difference in feel. You come online pretty quick but your damage gets really tied to your 3 stack ult, so landing abilities on those slowed targets is mandatory.

I also see that you q max every single game. While that's good for supportkoz, in mid you may want to consider w max in some lanes. W max let's you instantly wave clear much sooner, giving you shoving priority. Against a bad cser like lebonk it provides some safety (but WARD!) and it gives you the opportunity to roam. You do have some losses where you got fed and weren't able to convert, if this was laning fed, then the extra roaming power of w max will allow you to transfer your lead to at least 1 other lane, making them less heavy to carry later. Note that you will have less 1v1 power in lane with this build.

If you're getting fed in Midgame and aren't able to convert, then it's probably your positioning. Unfortunately, velkoz does not have the same Midgame poke as other artillery mages like xerath and lux, your q is quite slow when fired off at angles to get max range. Yes there's a temptation to move up next to your frontline to poke at their backline, but the moment you become your teams fed midlaner it's your job to carry fights, not start them. Unless you can make a lethal catch on a carry, sit back, be a little less effective prefight, and then use your fedness to annihilate both tanks and squishies since now you're alive and properly ranged to hit both when the fight starts.

Just kinda hit the high points there, anything specific you're looking to improve at? (also, suppkoz is way better than its win rate imo, but it is a very big play style shift, so while I do recommend it for climbing, it'll take some practice in normals to get used to it)

Aragorne11 votes

You're right, I need to improve on my itemization.

It's really hard to "convert" my impact and damage when I am fed on lane, when toplane and botlane are often very miserable, it's almost every game where players are able to go 0/7 in matter of 10 minutes, I can't do much in that time.

But I am looking forward to test that glacial augment build

I just feel like even if you are 15/0 but your toplane is still struggling, you can't do much, and it's worse if the enemy toplaner is someone who can close the gap and get to you quickly You just can't be on bot and top at the same time

Right now I am just giving up on ranked because it feels impossible for me to climb, I can't hypercarry with Vel'Koz, I have a lot of learning to do. I am honestly a very positive player and I am trying to not give up till the last second but sometimes I feel like tilting off of the face of earth.

I don't know what this Low plat and high gold thinking is, but it's always someone trying to engage on an enemy that they lost to 5 times in a row.

Honestly, I will just wait for new season placement system that might take individual skill more into consideration, good games are becoming a rarity in this elo. You either get crushed or you crush the enemy and sometimes I just feel like Vel'Koz right now without a team that understands your ult, and how you need to position, won't do anything at all, I have games where everyone is too scared to enagage and the enemy is too smart to make a mistake

Thank you for your feedback man, I appreciate it, good to know there are more Vel'Koz players out there, I never met any in my elo :-) Velkoz

usul12023 votes

Always bot, for 3 reasons. 1: adcs are stupid late. You keep yours in the game, even the monkey ones can do something. 2: you're getting 2 people fed/putting 2 behind. 3: bot Lakers are your ideal 'prey' as early/mid vel. Health counters you, and bruiser items are ad + hp. That makes top a hard kill, bot at least 1 person can't build hp early.

Hyper carry, you're correct. He doesn't do it well. You late game delete squishys well, but vela biggest strengths are early. It's the reason I feel suppkoz is bestkoz, you use all your strengths to empower your scaling champs. Midkoz can carry though. You set enemies behind and you have to create a ton of early pressure. You can either do this by taking objectives like a madman (no lichbane tho -_-) or by rotating like nuts after you've solidified your lead.

You'll go through streaks where nothing seems to go right, it happens. You're real damn close to your goal though, so I'd say don't give up. Try some of the new stuff out in normals, get a feel for 2-3 good builds so you know your power spikes when you get them. Take some time and learn to keep half an eye on bot lane (if you hit f4 it'll immediately move your screen down to the 4th person on your scoreboard, you can use this to periodically check which way bot wave is pushing) so that you can time roams down there right as the enemy pushes. This makes it less likely that they'll have warded by the time you make it there.

I've met one other velkoz this season (and he sucked even tho I gave up champ :( sadlife) but he's still plenty good. You just need that last push.

giannishannibal2 votes

i can recommend brand support. Why? 1) have insane base damage 2) his passive melts tanks 3) at bot lane u have higher chance to hit someone with w or E ( Q minion then spread to enemies with E ) 4) w is aoe, e can become aoe, ult is aoe 5) can vanish the squishes 6) you will deal the damage that yout team as a whole 6) u can help your adc not die cause you kill them for him and help him stay in lane so he can farm and be decent outside the laning phase 7)similar builds to velkoz 8) can play brand at mid to if you have too paly other role (just rush lost chapter early) 9) strong waveclear for sieging and defending 10) he has the potential to shred all 5 enemies and almost kill them by himself 11) enemies usually dont get adaptive helmet to counter him 12) liandry on brand feels so good 13) i have played both velkoz and brand and i feel that brand have more smoother auto attack animation (thats my subjected opinion) Well i hope you like it and maybe help you

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