Naafiri vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Naafiri
based on 1,088 Naafiri vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Vel'Koz
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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.
Naafiri vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Naafiri in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several valuable Naafiri against Vel'Koz counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Naafiri typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their counter does. Typically, they takes more damage than Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 54.0% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes a great counter for Vel'Koz.
While Naafiri does have a much higher winrate than Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Naafiri also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Naafiri into Vel'Koz.
Additionally, Naafiri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Vel'Koz matchups, Naafiri is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Naafiri is a great counter for Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Naafiri against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Naafiri in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri often gets more CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Naafiri versus Vel'Koz build include Guardian Angel, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri used at least these three items in their build, they performed much better when facing Vel'Koz than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 54.0% when countering Vel'Koz with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Vel'Koz as Naafiri, Naafiri players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Naafiri vs Vel'Koz counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.0% winrate overall.
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