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Gragas with Vel'Koz

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How to Synergize Gragas and Vel'Koz

based on 1,051 Gragas with Vel'Koz pairs
Win Rate
48.7 %
K/D/A
2.17
Pick Rate
1.6 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

At MOBA Champion, we pull the results of from millions of League of Legends games directly from Riot Games each week. Gragas has gone into battle with Vel'Koz in 1051 recently played, ranked matches. By amassing so much accurate data from the publishers of League, we are completely sure that we can give you high-quality, usable builds to help Gragas synergize with Vel'Koz. It is relatively rare for Gragas to play alongside Vel'Koz on the same team. This has only occurred in approximately 1.6% of games with Gragas.

Gragas Vel'Koz Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Gragas does a poor job of playing alongside Vel'Koz. Typically, he wins an acceptable 48.7% of matches the champs play on the same team. If you want to maximize your potential as Gragas when playing with Vel'Koz by figuring out how to better synergize your gameplay with him, then review the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Gragas vs Vel'Koz Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's RingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeLost Chapter

Core Gragas Items

~22 Mins
ShadowflameStormsurgeLuden's Companion

Optional Items

Rabadon's DeathcapZhonya's HourglassLich BaneHextech Rocketbelt

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Gragas to level upq
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Second ability for Gragas to level upe
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Last skill for Gragas to max outw

Runes

SorceryPhase RushManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceArmor
Gragas's passive ability p
Gragas's q ability q
Gragas's w ability w
Gragas's e ability e
Gragas's ultimate ability r
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W
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Q
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Q
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Vel'Koz

Tips for Playing as Gragas with Vel'Koz

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.

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.

Gragas Vel'Koz Synergy Stats

Gragas Image
Win Rate
48.7 %
VS
Win Rate
51.3 %
Vel'Koz Image
5.9
< Kills >
5.9
6
< Deaths >
5.8
7.1
< Assists >
7.2
1.33
< Killing Sprees >
1.36
107
< Minions Killed >
109
0.71
< Dragons Killed >
0.59
0.39
< Inhibitors >
0.38
1,481
< Physical Damage >
1,474
18,051
< Magic Damage >
18,364
662
< True Damage >
641
20,195
< Damage Dealt >
20,480
31,125
< Damage Taken >
29,773
11,570
< Gold Earned >
11,274
1.5
< Towers >
1.47
0.14
< Baron Takedowns >
0.14
13,320
< Total Healing >
12,331
14,491
< Experience >
14,035
22
< Vision Score >
21
9
< Wards Placed >
8
423
< Time Dealing CC >
414

How to Play with Vel'Koz as Gragas in LoL

The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.

When Gragas tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Vel'Koz doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.

Moreover, when Gragas plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Gragas during teamfights.

Synergies between Gragas and Vel'Koz

Damage Types Compared

Gragas
Vel'Koz
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Gragas
Vel'Koz

Is Gragas better when played alongside Vel'Koz?

There is no one best synergy for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Gragas and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.

Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players need to be cautious when enlisting Vel'Koz teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.

Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.

Conversely, by grouping Gragas and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.

Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Gragas Players

How We Calculated Our Gragas Vel'Koz Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Gragas and Vel'Koz, we analyzed 1,051 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Gragas with Vel'Koz comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.

The top items to get in your Gragas and Vel'Koz synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 48.7% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.

To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.

If you want to see Gragas with Vel'Koz collaboration tips and stats for a an individual skill level, please select one from the selection menu above. If viewing for the first time, the statistics and guides displayed are computed using every game run with these champs.