Zyra vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Zyra
based on 3,489 Zyra vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Vel'Koz
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Zyra in LoL
The stats shown here feature several important Zyra vs. Vel'Koz counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Zyra often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Zyra or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when trying to fight Vel'Koz, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a good counter to Vel'Koz.
While Zyra does have a higher win rate than Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Zyra also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zyra into Vel'Kozas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zyra has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Vel'Koz matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zyra is a decent counter to Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zyra against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zyra in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra on average accumulates less CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Zyra versus Vel'Koz build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zyra had an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Vel'Koz as Zyra, Zyra players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Zyra vs Vel'Koz clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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