Vel'Koz vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Vel'Koz
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Vel'Koz vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Vel'Koz vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some valuable Vel'Koz against Lee Sin matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lee Sin..
Vel'Koz normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Lee Sin?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 54.7% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a great counter to Lee Sin.
While Vel'Koz does have a much higher winrate compared to Lee Sin, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Lee Sinas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach 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 Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Lee Sin 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a great counter for Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to counter Lee Sin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz typically racks up more CS as Lee Sin. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz versus Lee Sin build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Lee Sin than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 54.7% when countering Lee Sin with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Lee Sin as Vel'Koz, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Vel'Koz vs Lee Sin battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lee Sin as Vel'Koz are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.