Vel'Koz vs Fiddlesticks
How to Beat Fiddlesticks as Vel'Koz
based on 1,266 Vel'Koz vs Fiddlesticks matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Fiddlesticks Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Fiddlesticks Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Fiddlesticks as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Fiddlesticks
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.
Vel'Koz vs Fiddlesticks Counter Stats
How to Counter Fiddlesticks with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here show several influential Vel'Koz versus Fiddlesticks matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Fiddlesticks..
Vel'Koz typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Fiddlesticks. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Fiddlesticks
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Fiddlesticks?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when taking on Fiddlesticks, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter to Fiddlesticks.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Fiddlesticks, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Vel'Koz into Fiddlesticksas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fiddlesticks. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Fiddlesticks matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter for Fiddlesticks. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Fiddlesticks.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to counter Fiddlesticks during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average accumulates more CS relative to Fiddlesticks. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Fiddlesticks build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Fiddlesticks than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when countering Fiddlesticks with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Fiddlesticks as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Vel'Koz vs Fiddlesticks face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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