Vex vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Vex
based on 1,512 Vex vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Vex
Advice to Win Against Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Vex vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Vex in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some vital Vex against Vel'Koz counter stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champions. Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Vex usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their foe does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vex and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Vex or Vel'Koz?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually loses when taking on Vel'Koz, with a 45.0% win rate. Therefore, Vex makes a poor counter for Vel'Koz.
While Vex does have a much lower winrate than Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Vex also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Vex into Vel'Koz.
Additionally, Vex has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Vex vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Vex is a terribly counter for Vel'Koz. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vex against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vex in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex most often gets more CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Vex versus Vel'Koz build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better vs Vel'Koz than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vex had an average winrate of 45.0% when playing against Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Vel'Koz as Vex, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Vex vs Vel'Koz clashes, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.0% winrate overall.
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