Taliyah vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Taliyah
based on 1,262 Taliyah vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Vel'Koz
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Advice to Win Against Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Taliyah vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Taliyah in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several important Taliyah versus Vel'Koz matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Vel'Koz..
Taliyah often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Vel'Koz. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 43.5% win rate. Thus, Taliyah makes a poor counter to Vel'Koz.
While Taliyah does have a much lower winrate than Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Taliyah also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Taliyah into Vel'Koz.
Furthermore, Taliyah also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Taliyah is a bad counter to Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Taliyah against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Taliyah 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Taliyah versus Vel'Koz build include Luden's Tempest, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Taliyah included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 43.5% when countering Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Vel'Koz as Taliyah, Taliyah players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Taliyah vs Vel'Koz counters, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.5% winrate overall.
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