Vel'Koz vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Vel'Koz
based on 3,132 Vel'Koz vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Vel'Koz vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several important Vel'Koz versus Thresh counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Thresh. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Vel'Koz typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Thresh. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Thresh
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Thresh?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when trying to fight Thresh, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate than Thresh, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Threshas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vel'Koz has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Thresh 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 team fights.
Vel'Koz is a good counter to Thresh. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average gets more CS as Thresh. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Thresh build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Thresh than with many other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 52.7% when countering Thresh with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Thresh as Vel'Koz, you 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 rune sets that we analyzed for Vel'Koz vs Thresh fights, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.7% winrate overall.
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