Malzahar vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Malzahar
based on 2,600 Malzahar vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Vel'Koz
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several critical Malzahar vs. Vel'Koz counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between the pair. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Malzahar often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Vel'Koz?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually fairs equally well when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Malzahar makes an ok counter to Vel'Koz.
While Malzahar does have a higher winrate than Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Vel'Koz.
Additionally, Malzahar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Vel'Koz matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Malzahar is a decent counter to Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malzahar to counter Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar often racks up more CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Malzahar versus Vel'Koz build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Vel'Koz than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 50.3% when countering Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Vel'Koz as Malzahar, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Malzahar vs Vel'Koz matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% win rate overall.
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