Gragas with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Gragas and Vel'Koz
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Gragas Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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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
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
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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.
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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.
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