No, velocity will handle 1.8 traffic itself, forwarding it to the backend server if that also supports 1.8
So the solution is to install viaversion+friends on all your backend servers that velocity connects to.
Velocity natively supports 1.7 to 1.21.1, so support for players is solely dependent on what your backends accept.
If you install viaversion + the add-ons onto your backends, then velocity will handle it fine.
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