Rumble vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Rumble
based on 1,383 Rumble vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rumble vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Rumble vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Rumble
Tips for Playing as Rumble against Vel'Koz
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
Rumble vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Rumble in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some important Rumble against Vel'Koz counter stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Rumble’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rumble may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vel'Koz..
Rumble typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Vel'Koz. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rumble and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Rumble or Vel'Koz?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rumble usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Vel'Koz, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Rumble makes an ok counter to Vel'Koz.
While Rumble does have a lower win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Rumble also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rumble into Vel'Kozas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Rumble also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rumble vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rumble is a somewhat poor counter for Vel'Koz. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rumble against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rumble in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rumble usually accumulates more CS as Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Rumble versus Vel'Koz build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rumble had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Vel'Koz as Rumble, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rumble vs Vel'Koz face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
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