Rumble with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Rumble and Vel'Koz
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Rumble Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Vel'Koz
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
Advice to Understand How Vel'Koz Will Play
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.
Rumble Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rumble sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Rumble perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rumble is an ally to Vel'Koz, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Vel'Koz does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Rumble plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Rumble during teamfights.
Synergies between Rumble and Vel'Koz
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top companion for Rumble that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a below average teammate for Rumble. By playing on the same team as Rumble, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Rumble and Vel'Koz that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a lower difficulty than Rumble. That means Rumble players don't need to be careful when arranging Vel'Koz teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Rumble and Vel'Koz together, you will not be granting your other allies very much AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rumble in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Rumble and Vel'Koz synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rumble had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Rumble and Vel'Koz pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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