Leona vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Leona
based on 2,797 Leona vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Vel'Koz
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Leona in LoL
The stats shown here show several vital Leona vs. Vel'Koz counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz..
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Leona or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Vel'Koz, with a 52.3% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter to Vel'Koz.
While Leona does have a higher win rate than Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Leona has a very large amount of CC and other utility, 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 overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Vel'Koz matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Leona is a good counter to Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Leona against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically accumulates a lot less CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Leona versus Vel'Koz build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 52.3% when playing against Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Vel'Koz as Leona, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Leona vs Vel'Koz LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.3% winrate overall.
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