Taliyah vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Taliyah
based on 851 Taliyah vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Vel'Koz
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Taliyah in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Taliyah vs. Vel'Koz matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz..
Taliyah normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Vel'Koz?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when taking on Vel'Koz, with a 45.5% win rate. As a result, Taliyah makes a poor counter for Vel'Koz.
While Taliyah does have a much lower win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Taliyah also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Taliyah into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Taliyah also 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Taliyah is a garbage counter to Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Taliyah against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah often picks up a similar amount of CS as Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Taliyah versus Vel'Koz build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Vel'Koz than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 45.5% when countering Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Vel'Koz as Taliyah, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Taliyah vs Vel'Koz face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.5% winrate overall.
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