Vel'Koz with Gangplank
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Gangplank
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Vel'Koz Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Gangplank
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
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.
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.
Advice to Understand How Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Vel'Koz Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vel'Koz sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gangplank helps Vel'Koz perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Gangplank, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Gangplank doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Gangplank on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz during teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Gangplank is a very typical teammate for Vel'Koz. By being on the same side as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 50.2%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Vel'Koz and Gangplank that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you should be very careful when finding Gangplank teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Vel'Koz and Gangplank together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to pair well with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Vel'Koz and Gangplank synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Gangplank than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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