Rod of Ages Vel'Koz Build
Rod of Ages Vel'Koz build with runes and items. Rod of Ages Vel'Koz guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Rod of Ages Vel'Koz build in League of Legends Patch 14.23!
Updated: 2024-11-26 ()
TLDR
Starting items
Quick Skill Order
Q
W
E
Final items
Quick Runes
Summoner spells
Rod of Ages Vel'Koz Runes
Domination
Precision
Passive
How it works
General
- You rush Rod of Ages.
- You play as Mage with more emphasis on sustain and mana.
- You buy AP items and adapt to an enemy team.
How to play
General
- Playing Rod of Ages Vel'Koz, your default rush is of course - Rod of Ages. You want to stack its passive as early as possible.
- Rod of Ages gives sustain with its second Passive. It recovers both health and mana.
- You can play this build very safely. Sustain from Rod of Ages alone is very powerful in ARAM. If you want to sustain even harder, you can get Kaenic Rookern (anti poke), Spirit Visage (more sustain) or even get Second Wind rune from Resolve.
- In cases, when an enemy team is full of tanks and HP stackers and you need to counter them, go Liandry's Torment.
- Adapt to an enemy team. They full of tanks and they rush MR? You rush Void Staff as #2 or #3 item. Their team is Soraka, Mundo or champs with healing? Rush Oblivion Orb as #2 item (upgrade to Morellonomicon as 4th or 5th item). They stack HP? You buy Liandry's Torment.
- Somebody is going after you each fight? Their assassins are focusing you on sight? Always getting R by Fizz? Rush Zhonya's Hourglass.
- Good MR item that works well with Rod of Ages is Spirit Visage and Kaenic Rookern.
Tips and Tricks
Riot
- 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.
- 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.
- Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Skill Order
- Plasma FissionQ
- Void RiftW
- Tectonic DisruptionE
- Life Form Disintegration RayR
Items
Starting items
Rush this
Boots
Good items
OK items
Against high MR
Sustain even harder
Counter enemy
For the last fight
Example final build