Vel'Koz with Gwen
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Gwen
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Vel'Koz Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Vel'Koz Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gwen helps Vel'Koz perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Gwen, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Gwen does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gwen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gwen.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Gwen on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Gwen does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Gwen
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no perfect companion for Vel'Koz that will always be his top teammate. However, Gwen is a relatively poor ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same team as Vel'Koz, she decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 49.0%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Vel'Koz and Gwen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gwen has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Gwen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Vel'Koz and Gwen together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of cover. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz to synergize with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Vel'Koz and Gwen synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Vel'Koz used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Gwen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Gwen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating 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. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Gwen with Vel'Koz are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.