Zoe vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Zoe
based on 1,062 Zoe vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Core Zoe Items
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Vel'Koz
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Zoe in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some vital Zoe versus Vel'Koz matchup statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Zoe often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Vel'Koz
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Zoe or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when taking on Vel'Koz, with a 46.2% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a bad counter to Vel'Koz.
While Zoe does have a lower winrate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zoe into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Zoe has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zoe is a terribly counter to Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zoe against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zoe in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe most often accumulates more CS as Vel'Koz. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Zoe versus Vel'Koz build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 46.2% battling Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Vel'Koz as Zoe, Zoe players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Zoe vs Vel'Koz matchups, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.2% win rate overall.
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