Vel'Koz vs Rammus
How to Beat Rammus as Vel'Koz
based on 1,378 Vel'Koz vs Rammus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Rammus Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rammus as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Rammus
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 Rammus
Rammus often stacks high Armor, leaving him especially vulnerable to caster damage while not in Defensive Ball Curl.
Pay particular attention to when his Defensive Ball Curl is off. Rammus has much lower stats than a normal tank when he's out of the stance.
Vel'Koz vs Rammus Counter Stats
How to Counter Rammus with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several critical Vel'Koz versus Rammus matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rammus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rammus..
Vel'Koz typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Rammus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Rammus
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Rammus?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when trying to fight Rammus, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a good counter to Rammus.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Rammus, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Rammusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rammus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Rammus matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a higher 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 decent counter to Rammus. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Rammus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Rammus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz most often accumulates more CS as Rammus. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz versus Rammus build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Rammus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 51.7% battling Rammus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Rammus as Vel'Koz, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Vel'Koz vs Rammus matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.7% win rate overall.
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