Vel'Koz vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Vel'Koz
based on 599 Vel'Koz vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Vel'Koz vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Vel'Koz against Kog'Maw counter stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kog'Maw..
Vel'Koz normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Kog'Maw. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when playing against Kog'Maw, with a 55.4% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a fantastic counter for Kog'Maw.
While Vel'Koz does have a much higher win rate compared to Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Kog'Mawas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Kog'Maw matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Vel'Koz is a great counter to Kog'Maw. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually picks up less CS relative to Kog'Maw. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Vel'Koz versus Kog'Maw build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Kog'Maw than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 55.4% battling Kog'Maw with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Kog'Maw as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should use 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 we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Kog'Maw counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.4% win rate overall.
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