Vel'Koz vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Vel'Koz
based on 1,281 Vel'Koz vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Vel'Koz vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some important Vel'Koz vs. Azir counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Azir..
Vel'Koz usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Azir. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Azir
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Azir?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when taking on Azir, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a good counter for Azir.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate than Azir, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vel'Koz into Aziras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Azir matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a good counter to Azir. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention 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 often gets less CS as Azir. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Vel'Koz versus Azir build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Azir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 52.4% when countering Azir with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Azir as Vel'Koz, you 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 we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Azir clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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