Hwei vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Hwei
based on 4,013 Hwei vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hwei vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Vel'Koz
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Hwei in LoL
The stats shown here show some critical Hwei against Vel'Koz counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Vel'Koz..
Hwei typically has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hwei and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Hwei or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Hwei usually loses when taking on Vel'Koz, with a 44.8% win rate. Therefore, Hwei makes a bad counter for Vel'Koz.
While Hwei does have a much lower winrate compared to Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Hwei also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hwei into Vel'Kozas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Hwei has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Hwei is a trash counter for Vel'Koz. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Hwei against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Hwei in order 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 here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Hwei versus Vel'Koz build include Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Hwei combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better vs Vel'Koz than with many other common item sets. In fact, Hwei had an average win rate of 44.8% battling Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Vel'Koz as Hwei, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Hwei vs Vel'Koz face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.8% win rate overall.
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