Ziggs vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Ziggs
based on 1,170 Ziggs vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Vel'Koz
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Ziggs in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several important Ziggs versus Vel'Koz counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vel'Koz..
Ziggs often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Ziggs makes a poor counter for Vel'Koz.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate than Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Ziggs also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ziggs into Vel'Koz.
Additionally, Ziggs also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ziggs 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 allied champions during team fights.
Ziggs is a somewhat poor counter to Vel'Koz. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ziggs in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs typically picks up more CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Ziggs versus Vel'Koz build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Vel'Koz than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 48.9% battling Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Vel'Koz as Ziggs, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Ziggs vs Vel'Koz battles, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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