K'Sante vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as K'Sante
based on 1,263 K'Sante vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Vel'Koz
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with K'Sante in LoL
The stats provided here feature some vital K'Sante vs. Vel'Koz matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz..
K'Sante normally has a similar longest killing spree as their matchup does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when facing off against Vel'Koz, with a 45.2% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Vel'Koz.
While K'Sante does have a much lower win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking K'Sante into Vel'Kozas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a bad counter for Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as K'Sante against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante to counter Vel'Koz during both the early game 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 mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually picks up more CS as Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your K'Sante versus Vel'Koz build include Kaenic Rookern, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better vs. Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 45.2% battling Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Vel'Koz as K'Sante, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Vel'Koz face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.2% winrate overall.
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