Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Cassiopeia against Vel'Koz counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Cassiopeia typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Cassiopeia usually loses when facing off against Vel'Koz, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Cassiopeia makes a bad counter to Vel'Koz.
While Cassiopeia does have a lower win rate than Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Cassiopeia also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Cassiopeia into Vel'Kozas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Cassiopeia has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Cassiopeia is a bad counter for Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Cassiopeia against Vel'Koz.
To truly master Cassiopeia in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia usually picks up more CS as Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Cassiopeia versus Vel'Koz build include Liandry's Anguish, Seraph's Embrace, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Cassiopeia used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Vel'Koz than with many other typical builds. In fact, Cassiopeia boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when countering Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Vel'Koz as Cassiopeia, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Cassiopeia vs Vel'Koz LoL games, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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