Rammus with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Rammus and Vel'Koz
based on 1,419 Rammus with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rammus Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Rammus vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Synergizing Rammus and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Rammus with Vel'Koz
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Rammus in LoL
The Rammus 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, Rammus 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 drop shows that Vel'Koz helps Rammus perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rammus plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, he observes a little drop in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Vel'Koz doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Rammus plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Rammus during team fights.
Synergies between Rammus and Vel'Koz
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Is Rammus better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no ideal companion for Rammus that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a not very good ally for Rammus. By being on the same team as Rammus, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Rammus and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Rammus. That means you must be cautious when finding Vel'Koz allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Rammus players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Rammus and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be giving your side very much AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Rammus Vel'Koz Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rammus in order to work well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Rammus and Vel'Koz synergy build include Thornmail, Randuin's Omen, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rammus had an average win rate of 49.5% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rammus and Vel'Koz pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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