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.
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
The Vel'Koz Braum synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Braum, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vel'Koz sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Braum. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Braum helps Vel'Koz perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Braum, he gets a noticable increase in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Braum supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Braum on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Braum.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Braum on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Braum does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz during team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Braum is a pretty good teammate for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same side as Vel'Koz, he increases their win rate by 1.9% to 52.2%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Vel'Koz and Braum that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Braum has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Braum comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Vel'Koz players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Vel'Koz and Braum together, you will not be granting your side very much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Braum teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to work well with Braum during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Vel'Koz and Braum synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Braum than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 52.2% helping carry Braum with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Vel'Koz and Braum pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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