Vel'Koz vs Warwick
How to Beat Warwick as Vel'Koz
based on 3,385 Vel'Koz vs Warwick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Warwick Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Warwick as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Warwick
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 Warwick
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
Vel'Koz vs Warwick Counter Stats
How to Counter Warwick with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here feature some strategic Vel'Koz versus Warwick matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Warwick’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Warwick..
Vel'Koz typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Warwick. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Warwick?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when taking on Warwick, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter to Warwick.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Warwick, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Vel'Koz into Warwickas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Warwick. 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Warwick matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter to Warwick. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Warwick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Warwick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average accumulates more CS relative to Warwick. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Warwick build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Warwick than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 50.9% when playing against Warwick with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Warwick as Vel'Koz, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Vel'Koz vs Warwick face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
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