Talk:Vel'Koz/@comment-24496127-20160915012125/@comment-7644418-20160919160735

Ok let me help you. The q is often best used as a line shot where you just aim at your opponents face the beam splitting is something that takes practice to consistently hit your intended target around 90% angles whether that be a siege minion or your opponent.

I don't understand why you feel unsafe using the ultimate it has quite some range on it further than irelias flash and dash range don't worry about hitting the entire combo in chaotic teamfights just focus on hitting as many of your abilities as accurately as possible while kiting and keeping them at your max range.

If you outnumber your opponent you don't care about the range anymore this is when you try to go for your combo which is Q E W R the reason you use E first is that the slow on Q decays over time so hitting the E becomes harder the longer you leave E once you hit just q and e the ultimate will do mega damage and if you manage to squeeze in a W before it so that it hits after lazer it does insane damage.

In lane you want to max W and push the wave hard against most opponents while warding smartly aka always buy a pink ward don't worry about trading early on so much just use Q to prevent the opponent getting near you at level 6 after hitting just one ability on an immobile target Q for instance just immediately ultimate this will at least get them out of the lane so you can chunk their tower and at most kill them outright. Laser has quite a low cooldown so you can spam it more than most champs once you hit 40% cdr it has 48 seconds cooldown so don't worry about using laser only during the combo you can use it as a  single ability just to do a tonne of damage from range.

Vel'koz has to be around his team to be effective as he's next to worthless when a melee champ is on them unless really fed and can chunk them down in a couple of passive procs.

In general you're trying to poke your opponents from extreme range with split beam Q's zoning them off of objectives and if you ever hit a q from range while defending baron say just raw laser.

Last note if they get too near you during laser, laser cancelling is an often overlooked mechanic that the enemy rarely expects, simply cancel it and resume kiting this will burn many flashes thinking they can "outplay the laser" cancel it.