Vel'Koz with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Kog'Maw
based on 531 Vel'Koz with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Vel'Koz Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Kog'Maw
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.
Advice to Understand How Kog'Maw Will Play
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.
Vel'Koz Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kog'Maw helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Kog'Maw, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Kog'Maw provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz during team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Kog'Maw
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no one best champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kog'Maw is a terrible teammate for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he decreases their win rate by -6.4% to 43.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Vel'Koz and Kog'Maw that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be careful when finding Kog'Maw comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Vel'Koz players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vel'Koz and Kog'Maw together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of engage. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Vel'Koz
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Vel'Koz Players
How We Calculated Our Vel'Koz Kog'Maw Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Vel'Koz and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kog'Maw than with many other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 43.9% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vel'Koz and Kog'Maw pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Kog'Maw with Vel'Koz are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu located above.