Vel'Koz vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Vel'Koz
based on 2,196 Vel'Koz vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Vel'Koz vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here feature some critical Vel'Koz versus Bard matchup statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard..
Vel'Koz often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Bard
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Bard?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 46.6% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Vel'Koz into Bardas 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 Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a terribly counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Bard 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 tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually accumulates more CS compared to Bard. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Bard build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 46.6% battling Bard with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Bard as Vel'Koz, you should equip 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 players picked for Vel'Koz vs Bard counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.6% winrate overall.
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