Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
The stats shown on this page underscore several influential Singed against Vel'Koz counter stats that may help you realize the distinctions between this set of champs. Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vel'Koz..
Singed typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Vel'Koz. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Singed usually wins when facing off against Vel'Koz, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Singed makes a good counter for Vel'Koz.
While Singed does have a higher winrate than Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Singed also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Singed into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Singed also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Singed vs Vel'Koz matchups, Singed is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Singed is an above average counter for Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Singed against Vel'Koz.
To learn all of the intricacies of Singed in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the early game 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 listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed usually racks up more CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Singed versus Vel'Koz build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Dead Man's Plate, and Riftmaker. When Singed bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Vel'Koz than with most other typical builds. In fact, Singed had an average winrate of 52.1% when playing against Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Vel'Koz as Singed, Singed players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Singed vs Vel'Koz counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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