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.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
The stats shown on this page highlight several significant Vel'Koz against Fiora counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Fiora’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Fiora. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Vel'Koz often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Fiora. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually loses when facing off against Fiora, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a poor counter to Fiora.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower winrate than Fiora, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Vel'Koz into Fioraas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fiora. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Fiora matchups, Fiora is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a bad counter for Fiora. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Fiora.
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Fiora during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz typically gets less CS relative to Fiora. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale 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 case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Fiora build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Fiora than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when playing against Fiora with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Fiora as Vel'Koz, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Fiora battles, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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