Vel'Koz vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Vel'Koz
based on 2,360 Vel'Koz vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Ahri
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Vel'Koz vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here feature several influential Vel'Koz versus Ahri counter statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ahri..
Vel'Koz normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Ahri. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Ahri
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Ahri?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when playing against Ahri, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter to Ahri.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Ahri, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Vel'Koz into Ahrias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Ahri matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter to Ahri. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz to counter Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average picks up less CS compared to Ahri. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz versus Ahri build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Vel'Koz included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Ahri than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Ahri with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Ahri as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Vel'Koz vs Ahri matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
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