Irelia vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Irelia
based on 2,053 Irelia vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Vel'Koz
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several significant Irelia versus Vel'Koz matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Irelia typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes more damage than Vel'Koz. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Irelia or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when facing off against Vel'Koz, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes an ok counter for Vel'Koz.
While Irelia does have a lower win rate than Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Irelia also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Irelia has some 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 overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Irelia is a somewhat poor counter to Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Irelia in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia usually accumulates more CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Irelia versus Vel'Koz build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Vel'Koz than with many other typical builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Vel'Koz as Irelia, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Irelia vs Vel'Koz matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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