Vel'Koz with Amumu
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Amumu
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Vel'Koz Amumu Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Amumu
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 Amumu Will Play
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
Vel'Koz Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, 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 Amumu. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Amumu helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Amumu, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Amumu supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Amumu.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Amumu on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Amumu does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz during teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Amumu is a very typical teammate for Vel'Koz. By being on the same side as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 50.1%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Amumu that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Amumu teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Vel'Koz players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Vel'Koz and Amumu together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Vel'Koz to pair well with Amumu during both the early game 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 tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Vel'Koz and Amumu synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Amumu than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 50.1% helping carry Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you 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 sets players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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