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.
The stat comparisons shown here show several significant Volibear against Vel'Koz counter stats that can help you realize the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vel'Koz..
Volibear usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Volibear usually loses when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Volibear makes a bad counter for Vel'Koz.
While Volibear does have a lower winrate than Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Volibear also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Volibear into Vel'Koz.
Additionally, Volibear also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Volibear is a bad counter to Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Volibear against Vel'Koz.
If you would like to truly master Volibear to counter Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Volibear versus Vel'Koz build include Nashor's Tooth, Hullbreaker, and Riftmaker. When Volibear incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Volibear boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Vel'Koz as Volibear, Volibear players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Volibear vs Vel'Koz counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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