Nidalee vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Nidalee
based on 562 Nidalee vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Vel'Koz
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some influential Nidalee versus Vel'Koz matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Vel'Koz..
Nidalee often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Vel'Koz, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Vel'Koz.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate than Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Vel'Kozas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically accumulates less CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Vel'Koz build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Vel'Koz than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 47.2% battling Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Vel'Koz as Nidalee, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Nidalee vs Vel'Koz fights, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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