Amumu with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Amumu and Vel'Koz
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Amumu Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Vel'Koz
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.
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.
Amumu Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu 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, Amumu sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vel'Koz helps Amumu perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Amumu is an ally to Vel'Koz, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Vel'Koz provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he on average takes more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Amumu in team fights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no ideal synergy for Amumu that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a decent ally for Amumu. By locking into the same team as Amumu, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 50.1%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Amumu and Vel'Koz that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means Amumu players need to be careful when enlisting Vel'Koz allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Amumu and Vel'Koz together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to work well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Amumu and Vel'Koz synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Force of Nature. When Amumu included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with many other common item sets. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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