Vel'Koz vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Vel'Koz
based on 2,780 Vel'Koz vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Darius
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 Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Vel'Koz vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Vel'Koz vs. Darius counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Darius’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Darius. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Vel'Koz often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Darius. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Darius?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when facing off against Darius, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter for Darius.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate compared to Darius, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Dariusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Darius 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 allies during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter to Darius. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz to counter Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average gets less CS as Darius. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Darius build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Darius than with many other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 50.9% when playing against Darius with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Darius as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Vel'Koz vs Darius face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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