Vel'Koz with Rumble
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Rumble
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Vel'Koz Rumble Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Rumble
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Rumble
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 Rumble Will Play
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
Vel'Koz Rumble Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rumble as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rumble. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rumble helps Vel'Koz perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Rumble, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Rumble doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Rumble on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rumble. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rumble.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Rumble on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Rumble does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Rumble?
There is no one best ally for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Rumble is a relatively poor teammate for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, he decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 47.6%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Vel'Koz and Rumble that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Rumble has a greater difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you need to be very careful when finding Rumble teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Vel'Koz and Rumble together, you will not be giving your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Rumble ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to work well with Rumble during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Vel'Koz and Rumble synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Rumble than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Rumble with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Vel'Koz and Rumble pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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