Ziggs with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Ziggs and Vel'Koz
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Ziggs Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Ziggs vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ziggs and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Ziggs with Vel'Koz
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Ziggs in LoL
The Ziggs 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, Ziggs sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Ziggs perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ziggs is paired with Vel'Koz, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This change may signal that Vel'Koz does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played alongside 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 alongside Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Ziggs plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Ziggs during teamfights.
Synergies between Ziggs and Vel'Koz
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Is Ziggs better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best ally for Ziggs that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a relatively poor ally for Ziggs. By locking into the same side as Ziggs, he decreases their win rate by -2.8% to 45.3%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Ziggs and Vel'Koz that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Ziggs. That means you should be very careful when arranging Vel'Koz comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Ziggs and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of AD. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs in order to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Ziggs and Vel'Koz synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other common builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average win rate of 45.3% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Vel'Koz with Ziggs are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.