Vel'Koz vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Vel'Koz
based on 1,956 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.
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 Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
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 here emphasize some vital Vel'Koz against Amumu matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the two. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Amumu..
Vel'Koz usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Amumu. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Amumu
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Amumu?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when taking on Amumu, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Amumu, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Amumuas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Amumu 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 team fights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter to Amumu. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average picks up much more CS as Amumu. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Amumu build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Amumu than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 50.6% when playing against Amumu with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Amumu as Vel'Koz, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Amumu fights, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Amumu as Vel'Koz are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.