Vel'Koz/Trivia

General

 * Vel'Koz is jokingly referred to as requiring geometry skills to land, and gains π attack damage per level.
 * Vel'Koz's full attack damage per level is +—that is,.
 * Vel'Koz's taunt appear as a written in w:c:v:Visitor Language from American alien science-fiction franchise V.
 * Vel'Koz can be categorized as an Oculothorax, a common trope in sci-fi and fantasy. Other examples include:, the and . Shuma-Gorath in particular was cited as providing some inspiration for Vel'Koz, namely for his ultimate.
 * Vel'Koz has a striking resemblance to Hermaeus Mora, a Daedric Prince from series.
 * Both designs are focused on eyes and tentacles.
 * Both share the same goal, the pursuit for knowledge.
 * Both can disintegrate matter.
 * Vel'Koz also bears some similarities with the darkness spirit, from Nickelodeon's.
 * The focus of both of their designs are on their eyes, and both have tentacles.
 * The energy beam Vaatu shoots is also purple and has a nearly identical sound effect to Life-Form Disintegration Ray.
 * Vel'Koz's voice over is very similar to Vaatu's.
 * Vel'Koz also resembles the Tripods from the novel War of the Worlds. Both are shaped similiar, large cysts with 3 long, thin legs that resemble tentacles sprouting out. Both have laser beams that completly disintegrate their target. Both are researching an alien world.
 * Similarities have been drawn between the visual styles of Vel'Koz's skins and the races in Starcraft - Arclight Vel'Koz shares many thematic elements with the Protoss, Battlecast with Terran, and Classic with Zerg.
 * He also bears similarity with the Energy Creatures in the manner that both entities share a similar, tentacled, squid-like structure, and have a laser ray-like device used to "scan and study" other creatures, disintegrating them in the process.

Development

 * Emptylord Vel'KozTheWatcher1.jpgProfileIcon Frostguard.png'Koz was the first champion released in 2014.
 * The Koz in Vel'Koz came from one of his names during development (The Keeper of Secrets)
 * Prior to release, Vel'Koz was speculated to be in some way related to The Frozen Watchers, who were referred to in lore. Speculation about this relationship first arose due to visual similarities between Vel'Koz and the many statues that can be found in the Howling Abyss, as well as the symbol of the Frostguard; and a direct interpretation of Lissandra's quote:  However, in the Vel'Koz Reddit AMA, the developers said that Vel'Koz had nothing to do with the Watchers, however it has been hinted that a void portal in Freljord is possible.
 * Vel'Koz's original voice script was intended to have more humor, with Vel'Koz in on his own joke. However, it was decided that "amoral and heartless" was a better theme, and his script was made to sound more creepy.
 * Vel'Koz first appeared in splash artwork, albeit in his Battlecast skin.
 * Vel'Koz made a series of appearances on YouTube prior to his release.
 * Ironically, and possibly intentionally, Vel'Koz was revealed on The Day We Fight Back, an international event held in protest of surveillance.

Lore

 * Vel'Koz's lore is the first to be told in first-person.
 * Vel'Koz's mission is to learn about Valoran. Unfortunately, Vel'Koz's means of investigation involves disintegration —requiring him to first decide if a subject is worth destroying in order to learn their functionality.
 * The community has jokingly labelled his scanner "the Learn Beam". For example, you can see it here or here.
 * Each of Vel'Koz's eyes are capable of being removed from his body; the largest is even capable of independent flight.

Quotes

 * Vel'Koz shares a quote with : "Let's see what they're made of.".

Skins

 * Battlecast Vel'Koz features a robotic voice-filter and unique quotes for, , Yordles, and the Howling Abyss.
 * This makes it the third non-legendary skin with special voiceover lines, the others being, , and.
 * However, those unique interactions were removed for some reason.
 * Battlecast Vel'Koz's appearance bears some resemblance to the from the  franchise.
 * This similarity is especially noticeable during Vel'Koz's enhanced movement animation.
 * and can be seen in the splash art, as well as an as of now unidentified silhouette that also appears in  recall animation.
 * He shares this theme with, , , , and.
 * His recall animation is different in this skin, his tentacles retract into his body and jet engines sprout, he then takes off flight into the sky and back to the fountain.
 * His recall animation is different in this skin, his tentacles retract into his body and jet engines sprout, he then takes off flight into the sky and back to the fountain.


 * This skin was initially called "Arbiter", but it was changed due to not fitting with its own theme.
 * Arclight Vel'Koz resembles the Protoss Arbiters from the original Starcraft.
 * He shares this theme with and.
 * In this skin his recall animation is different, Vel'Koz pulls his head open and his eye slowly accends outwards.
 * In this skin his recall animation is different, Vel'Koz pulls his head open and his eye slowly accends outwards.


 * This skin is a tribute to April Fools Day 2016.
 * He shares some similarities with Octodad from the "" game series.
 * His clothing shares some similarities with the Mafia themed skins, being a common type of suits used for that skin line.
 * He shares this theme with, and.
 * He shares this theme with, and.

Relations

 * Despite being a creature from The Void, Vel'Koz does not ally himself with, , and . Vel'Koz views other voidlings as a primitive nuisance given they tend to eat and destroy everything before he can analyze his environment. Since they get in his way of gathering information, he doesn't mind resorting to killing them.
 * stands against the invasion from the Void, making him one of Vel'Koz's enemies.
 * Vel'Koz's Battlecast augmentations are courtesy of, who has augmented many of the other Void champions as part of his Glorious Evolution.
 * Vel'Koz is currently searching for, believing him to hold ultimate knowledge, for the Chrono Keeper has seen the world in both its past and future states.