Rek'Sai vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Rek'Sai
based on 399 Rek'Sai vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Vel'Koz
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several important Rek'Sai vs. Vel'Koz counter stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Rek'Sai typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 45.9% win rate. Thus, Rek'Sai makes a bad counter to Vel'Koz.
While Rek'Sai does have a much lower win rate than Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Rek'Sai also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Rek'Sai into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Rek'Sai has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai 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 allies during team fights.
Rek'Sai is a bad counter for Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rek'Sai against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rek'Sai to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai typically picks up less CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Rek'Sai versus Vel'Koz build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Rek'Sai boasted an average winrate of 45.9% battling Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Vel'Koz as Rek'Sai, Rek'Sai players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rek'Sai vs Vel'Koz clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
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