Vel'Koz vs Hecarim
How to Beat Hecarim as Vel'Koz
based on 1,941 Vel'Koz vs Hecarim matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Hecarim Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hecarim as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Hecarim
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 Hecarim
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
Vel'Koz vs Hecarim Counter Stats
How to Counter Hecarim with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some important Vel'Koz against Hecarim counter stats that may help us grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Hecarim..
Vel'Koz often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Hecarim. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Hecarim
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Hecarim?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when playing against Hecarim, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a good counter for Hecarim.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate than Hecarim, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Hecarimas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hecarim. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Hecarim matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter to Hecarim. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Hecarim.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually accumulates more CS relative to Hecarim. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Hecarim build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Hecarim than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when playing against Hecarim with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Hecarim as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Vel'Koz vs Hecarim battles, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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