Shen vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Shen
based on 1,422 Shen vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Shen vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Vel'Koz
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
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.
Shen vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Shen in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Shen vs. Vel'Koz counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, showing that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz..
Shen often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shen and Vel'Koz
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Shen or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shen usually loses when facing off against Vel'Koz, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Shen makes a poor counter for Vel'Koz.
While Shen does have a lower win rate than Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Shen also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shen into Vel'Koz.
Additionally, Shen also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shen vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Shen is a somewhat poor counter for Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Shen against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen 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 stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Shen versus Vel'Koz build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Vel'Koz as Shen, you should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Shen vs Vel'Koz counters, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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