Kog'Maw with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Vel'Koz
based on 531 Kog'Maw with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kog'Maw Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Vel'Koz
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw 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, Kog'Maw sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vel'Koz helps Kog'Maw perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kog'Maw is an ally to Vel'Koz, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Vel'Koz does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Kog'Maw plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Kog'Maw in teamfights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Vel'Koz
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kog'Maw that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Vel'Koz is a terrible ally for Kog'Maw. By locking into the same side as Kog'Maw, he lowers their win rate by -5.1% to 43.9%. This shows that there is a terrible synergy between Kog'Maw and Vel'Koz that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means Kog'Maw players must be very careful when lining up Vel'Koz comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, Kog'Maw players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Kog'Maw and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of engage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Kog'Maw Vel'Koz Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kog'Maw to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Kog'Maw and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with many other common builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 43.9% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 43.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Vel'Koz with Kog'Maw are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.