Lissandra vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Lissandra
based on 884 Lissandra vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Vel'Koz
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Lissandra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several valuable Lissandra vs. Vel'Koz matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Lissandra usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lissandra and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Vel'Koz?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 45.0% win rate. Thus, Lissandra makes a poor counter to Vel'Koz.
While Lissandra does have a much lower win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Lissandra also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Lissandra into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Lissandra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Lissandra is a garbage counter to Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lissandra against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra on average racks up more CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Lissandra versus Vel'Koz build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Vel'Koz than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 45.0% battling Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Vel'Koz as Lissandra, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Lissandra vs Vel'Koz LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.0% win rate overall.
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