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How to Win Kai'Sa vs Vel'Koz Counter MatchupKai'Sa is in the b tier of champions

Kai'Sa vs Vel'Koz

How to Beat Vel'Koz as Kai'Sa in LoLKai'Sa is in the a tier of champions
Marksman
Mage

How to Beat Vel'Koz as Kai'Sa

based on 3,226 Kai'Sa vs Vel'Koz matchups
Win Rate
46.5 %
K/D/A
2.12
Pick Rate
2 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we analyze millions of recently ranked League of Legends games each and every week. Within our database, Kai'Sa faced Vel'Koz 3226 times. Including so many games with Kai'Sa versus Vel'Koz gives us a lot of faith in our ability to prepare actionable data and a solid build to smash your opposition. This champion pairing is relatively rare. Kai'Sa is forced to battle against Vel'Koz in only 2.0% of her rounds.

Kai'Sa vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Kai'Sa does a awful job of beating Vel'Koz. Typically, she wins a lowly 46.5% of games the champs oppose each other in. In Kai'Sa vs Vel'Koz rounds, Kai'Sa’s team is 0.1% more expected to obtain first blood. This indicates that she probably will get first blood against Vel'Koz.

Best Kai'Sa vs Vel'Koz Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Recurve BowNoonquiver

Core Kai'Sa Items

~22 Mins
Guardian AngelTerminusKraken Slayer

Optional Items

StormsurgeBloodthirsterZhonya's HourglassWit's End

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerhaste summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Kai'Sa to level upq
>
Second ability for Kai'Sa to level upe
>
Last skill for Kai'Sa to max outw

Runes

PrecisionLethal TempoPresence of MindLegend: BloodlineCoup de Grace
InspirationMagical FootwearBiscuit Delivery
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceArmor
Kai'Sa's passive ability p
Kai'Sa's q ability q
Kai'Sa's w ability w
Kai'Sa's e ability e
Kai'Sa's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
W
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E
4
Q
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Q
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R
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Q
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Kai'Sa

Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Vel'Koz

Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.

Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.

Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.

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.

Kai'Sa vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats

Kai'Sa Image
Win Rate
46.5 %
VS
Win Rate
53.5 %
Vel'Koz Image
7.8
< Kills >
5.6
6.5
< Deaths >
6.1
6
< Assists >
9.3
1.8
< Killing Sprees >
1.29
183
< Minions Killed >
93
0.23
< Dragons Killed >
0.08
0.46
< Inhibitors >
0.47
11,829
< Physical Damage >
574
8,507
< Magic Damage >
17,690
438
< True Damage >
5,809
20,775
< Damage Dealt >
24,073
21,239
< Damage Taken >
17,814
12,779
< Gold Earned >
10,621
2.04
< Towers >
1.87
0.08
< Baron Takedowns >
0.02
4,707
< Total Healing >
1,683
13,334
< Experience >
12,624
18
< Vision Score >
45
9
< Wards Placed >
20
47
< Time Dealing CC >
204

How to Counter Vel'Koz with Kai'Sa in LoL

The stats provided here emphasize several valuable Kai'Sa against Vel'Koz matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..

Kai'Sa normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.

Differences between Kai'Sa and Vel'Koz

Damage Types Compared

Kai'Sa
Vel'Koz
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Kai'Sa
Vel'Koz

Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Vel'Koz?

Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Vel'Koz.

While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate than Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Vel'Koz.

Additionally, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.

Kai'Sa is a garbage counter for Vel'Koz. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Vel'Koz.

Additional Information for Kai'Sa Players

How We Calculated Our Kai'Sa vs Vel'Koz Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Vel'Koz as Kai'Sa, we analyzed 3,226 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Vel'Koz as Kai'Sa comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Kai'Sa most often racks up more CS as Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.

The ideal items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Vel'Koz build consist of Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting Vel'Koz than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 46.5% battling Vel'Koz with this build.

To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Vel'Koz as Kai'Sa, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Vel'Koz LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.5% winrate overall.

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