Katarina vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Katarina
based on 2,675 Katarina vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Vel'Koz
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some significant Katarina vs. Vel'Koz matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Vel'Koz. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Katarina or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Vel'Koz, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter to Vel'Koz.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Vel'Kozas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average racks up more CS as Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Katarina versus Vel'Koz build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Vel'Koz than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing against Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Vel'Koz as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Katarina vs Vel'Koz counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
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