Vel'Koz with Ryze
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Ryze
based on 460 Vel'Koz with Ryze pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Ryze Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Ryze Counter Build
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Core Vel'Koz Items
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Ryze
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Ryze
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 Ryze Will Play
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.
Vel'Koz Ryze Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ryze as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ryze 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 plays on the same team as Ryze, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change could signal that Ryze does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ryze.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Ryze on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Ryze does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz in teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Ryze
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Ryze?
There is no ideal synergy for Vel'Koz that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Ryze is a very typical companion for Vel'Koz. By being on the same side as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 49.8%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Ryze that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Ryze has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be careful when enlisting Ryze comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Vel'Koz and Ryze together, you may not be granting your other allies enough attack damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To truly master Vel'Koz to pair well with Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Vel'Koz and Ryze synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Ryze than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 49.8% helping carry Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating 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 builds players picked for Vel'Koz and Ryze pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
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