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.
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
The Vel'Koz Rammus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rammus, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rammus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rammus helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Rammus, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Rammus helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Rammus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rammus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rammus.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Rammus on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Rammus does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz in team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Rammus is a very typical teammate for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same team as Vel'Koz, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 49.5%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Vel'Koz and Rammus that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Rammus has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be very careful when arranging Rammus teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Vel'Koz players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Vel'Koz and Rammus together, you probably will not be giving your side very much sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Rammus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to pair well with Rammus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Vel'Koz and Rammus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Rammus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 49.5% helping carry Rammus with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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