Vel'Koz with Gragas
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Gragas
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Vel'Koz Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Vel'Koz Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gragas helps Vel'Koz perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Gragas, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Gragas does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gragas.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Gragas on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Gragas does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz during team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Gragas
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no top companion for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Gragas is a below average companion for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same side as Vel'Koz, he decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 48.7%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Vel'Koz and Gragas that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gragas has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Gragas allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Vel'Koz players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Vel'Koz and Gragas together, you may not be granting your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to synergize with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Vel'Koz and Gragas synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Gragas than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 48.7% when playing alongside Gragas with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating 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 builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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