Vel'Koz vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Vel'Koz
based on 562 Vel'Koz vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Nidalee
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 Nidalee
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
Vel'Koz vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here show some critical Vel'Koz against Nidalee matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between this pair of champs. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nidalee..
Vel'Koz normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nidalee. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Nidalee?
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 playing against Nidalee, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes a good counter for Nidalee.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Nidalee, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vel'Koz into Nidaleeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Nidalee matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Vel'Koz is an above average counter to Nidalee. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz often accumulates more CS relative to Nidalee. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Nidalee build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Nidalee than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 52.8% battling Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Nidalee 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Nidalee fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.8% winrate overall.
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