Veigar vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Veigar
based on 2,936 Veigar vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Vel'Koz
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some strategic Veigar versus Vel'Koz matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences between these two champions. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz..
Veigar often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Veigar or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Veigar usually loses when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes a bad counter for Vel'Koz.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Vel'Kozas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter for Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar often accumulates more CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Vel'Koz build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Veigar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Vel'Koz than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 48.4% when playing against Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Vel'Koz as Veigar, Veigar players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Veigar vs Vel'Koz counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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