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League of Legends Champion Vel'KozVel'Koz is in the a tier of champions

Vel'Koz

Mage
Vel'Koz is a mageRolemage
DifficultyHard
Power SpikeEarly-Game
Organic Deconstruction abilityp
Plasma Fission abilityq
Void Rift abilityw
Tectonic Disruption abilitye
Life Form Disintegration Ray abilityr
StatsBuildCounters
Runes
Synergies
support
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Vel'Koz Build

based on 30,435 matches
Win Rate
50.4 %
Pick Rate
3.4 %
Ban Rate
0.6 %

How We Come Up with Our Vel'Koz Builds

We process over 1 Million League of Legends games every day to bring you the most accurate Vel'Koz build so you can destroy your enemies and improve you win rate. We've broken down our Vel'Koz builds by rank, position, and enemy team type, so you can find the most accurate set of Vel'Koz core items and runes for any situation.

Vel'Koz Build Summary

Vel'Koz is a an average utility lane champ in League of Legends. His best rune sets are Sorcery Domination. Including the highlighted runes shown below in your Vel'Koz build will help provide you with the bonus stats to help him play well through the laning phase of the game and into the late game. You should focus on building up his q ability first.

Best vsAll Build for Vel'Koz

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Control WardSpellthief's Edge

Early Items

~5 Mins
BootsLost Chapter

Core Vel'Koz Items

~22 Mins
Luden's TempestRabadon's DeathcapShard of True IceIonian Boots of Lucidity

Optional Items

Horizon FocusRylai's Crystal ScepterShadowflameZhonya's Hourglass

Summoner Spells

summonerexhaust summoner spell D
summonerflash summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Vel'Koz to level upq
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Second ability for Vel'Koz to level upw
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Last skill for Vel'Koz to max oute

Runes

SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandAbsolute FocusScorch
DominationGhost PoroRelentless Hunter
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Vel'Koz's passive ability p
Vel'Koz's q ability q
Vel'Koz's w ability w
Vel'Koz's e ability e
Vel'Koz's ultimate ability r
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Vel'Koz Matchups Overview

More Gameplay Tips for Vel'Koz Players

Tips and Tricks

During the laning phase, use Void Rift to farm minions and harass your enemy at the same time.

Practice Vel'Koz's abilities constantly as the timing and positions are challenging to master.

Additional Vel'Koz Build Insights

LoL Vel'Koz players could find him to be a confusing champ to build out properly. You will notice that his build changes when he is fighting either diversified or homogenous team comps, showing you should not follow the same Vel'Koz build every round of League of Legends

The most essential items to include in your champ's build are: Luden's Tempest, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shard of True Ice. Those who added these items in their builds had a higher winrate than players who worked towards other item builds for Vel'Koz. Similarly, if you are facing a mixed enemy team arrangement, you should really consider grabbing him the Sorcery, and Domination runes. In recent games, he won the largest number of his matches when using these runes.

We established our Vel'Koz build suggestions by analyzing 30,435 recently ranked LoL matches with him selected. We only recommend the highest winrate Vel'Koz builds that have been used by ranked players enough times for us to advise them. With so many matches in our dataset, we are quite confident in our provided builds.