Vel'Koz vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Vel'Koz
based on 674 Vel'Koz vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Amumu
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
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.
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.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Vel'Koz vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several vital Vel'Koz vs. Amumu counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Amumu..
Vel'Koz usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Amumu. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Amumu
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Amumu?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when trying to fight Amumu, with a 54.7% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a great counter for Amumu.
While Vel'Koz does have a much higher winrate than Amumu, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Amumuas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Amumu matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Vel'Koz is a great counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually racks up more CS as Amumu. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Amumu build include Luden's Tempest, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shard of True Ice. When Vel'Koz included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Amumu than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 54.7% battling Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Amumu as Vel'Koz, you should use 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 builds we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Amumu LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.7% winrate overall.
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