Darius vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Darius
based on 2,780 Darius vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Vel'Koz
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Darius in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some significant Darius versus Vel'Koz matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, showing that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vel'Koz..
Darius typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Darius and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Darius or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Darius usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Vel'Koz, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Darius makes an ok counter to Vel'Koz.
While Darius does have a lower win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Darius also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Darius into Vel'Koz.
Furthermore, Darius has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Darius 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Darius is a somewhat poor counter to Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Darius against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Darius to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius typically accumulates more CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Darius versus Vel'Koz build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Death's Dance. When Darius incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 49.1% battling Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Vel'Koz as Darius, Darius players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Darius vs Vel'Koz counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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