Brand vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Brand
based on 4,841 Brand vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Vel'Koz
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Win Against Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Brand vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Brand against Vel'Koz matchup stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vel'Koz..
Brand often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Brand or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when facing off against Vel'Koz, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes an ok counter to Vel'Koz.
While Brand does have a lower win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Brand also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Brand into Vel'Koz.
Additionally, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Brand is a somewhat poor counter for Vel'Koz. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Brand versus Vel'Koz build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Vel'Koz as Brand, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Brand vs Vel'Koz clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
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