Heimerdinger vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Heimerdinger
based on 1,258 Heimerdinger vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Vel'Koz
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some significant Heimerdinger versus Vel'Koz counter stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz..
Heimerdinger typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Vel'Koz, with a 50.8% win rate. As a result, Heimerdinger makes an ok counter for Vel'Koz.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Heimerdinger also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Heimerdinger into Vel'Kozas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Heimerdinger has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Vel'Koz matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Heimerdinger is a decent counter to Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger 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 learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Heimerdinger versus Vel'Koz build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when countering Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Vel'Koz as Heimerdinger, Heimerdinger players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Heimerdinger vs Vel'Koz counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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