Udyr vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Udyr
based on 2,356 Udyr vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Udyr vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Udyr vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Udyr
Tips for Playing as Udyr against Vel'Koz
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
Udyr vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Udyr in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some critical Udyr against Vel'Koz counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vel'Koz..
Udyr typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Udyr and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Udyr or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Udyr usually loses when trying to fight Vel'Koz, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Udyr makes a poor counter to Vel'Koz.
While Udyr does have a lower winrate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Udyr also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Udyr into Vel'Kozas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Udyr has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Udyr 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Udyr is a somewhat poor counter to Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Udyr against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Udyr 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 pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Udyr typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Vel'Koz. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Udyr versus Vel'Koz build include Frozen Heart, Force of Nature, and Liandry's Torment. When Udyr bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Vel'Koz than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Udyr had an average win rate of 48.2% when countering Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating Vel'Koz as Udyr, Udyr players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Udyr vs Vel'Koz face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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