Tristana vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Tristana
based on 2,653 Tristana vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Vel'Koz
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some critical Tristana vs. Vel'Koz counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz..
Tristana usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Tristana or Vel'Koz?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when facing off against Vel'Koz, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes an ok counter to Vel'Koz.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Tristana also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Vel'Koz.
Furthermore, Tristana also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often 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 Tristana vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Tristana against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana most often gets more CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Tristana versus Vel'Koz build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when playing against Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Vel'Koz as Tristana, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Tristana vs Vel'Koz clashes, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
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