Ryze with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Ryze and Vel'Koz
based on 460 Ryze with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ryze Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Ryze vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Vel'Koz
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze 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, Ryze 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 decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Ryze perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ryze is paired with Vel'Koz, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Vel'Koz provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Ryze plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Ryze during team fights.
Synergies between Ryze and Vel'Koz
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Ryze that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Ryze. By locking into the same side as Ryze, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 49.8%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Ryze and Vel'Koz that results in them performing better together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Ryze. That means Ryze players must be cautious when lining up Vel'Koz comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Ryze and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of AD. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover 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 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 Ryze in order to work well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Ryze and Vel'Koz synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 49.8% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Ryze players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Ryze and Vel'Koz pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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