Vel'Koz with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Tahm Kench
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Vel'Koz Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Tahm Kench
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 Tahm Kench Will Play
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
Vel'Koz Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, 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 Tahm Kench. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Tahm Kench helps Vel'Koz perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Tahm Kench doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Tahm Kench 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 synergisticly with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a pretty good companion for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same team as Vel'Koz, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 51.5%. This proves that there is a good synergy between Vel'Koz and Tahm Kench that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Tahm Kench comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Vel'Koz players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Vel'Koz and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be providing your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to pair well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Vel'Koz and Tahm Kench synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Vel'Koz players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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