Nami vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Nami
based on 2,171 Nami vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Vel'Koz
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Nami in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several influential Nami against Vel'Koz counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Nami typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Nami or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nami usually fairs equally well when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Nami makes an ok counter to Vel'Koz.
While Nami does have a lower win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Nami also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nami into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Nami has a great 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nami 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 team members during teamfights.
Nami is a somewhat poor counter for Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nami against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nami in order 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 lessons on 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.
Nami on average accumulates a lot less CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nami versus Vel'Koz build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Vel'Koz as Nami, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Nami vs Vel'Koz battles, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
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