Vel'Koz vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Vel'Koz
based on 3,013 Vel'Koz vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Blitzcrank
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Advice to Win Against Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Vel'Koz vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some significant Vel'Koz against Blitzcrank matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Blitzcrank. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Vel'Koz often has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Blitzcrank. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Blitzcrank?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually loses when taking on Blitzcrank, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes a poor counter for Blitzcrank.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower win rate than Blitzcrank, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Vel'Koz into Blitzcrankas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a bad counter for Blitzcrank. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz to counter Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz typically gets much more CS as Blitzcrank. Champions who typically don't take 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Vel'Koz versus Blitzcrank build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Blitzcrank than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 48.0% battling Blitzcrank with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Blitzcrank as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Vel'Koz vs Blitzcrank fights, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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