Vel'Koz vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Vel'Koz
based on 1,446 Vel'Koz vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Vel'Koz vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential Vel'Koz against Illaoi matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Illaoi. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Vel'Koz usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when facing off against Illaoi, with a 53.9% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a great counter for Illaoi.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Illaoias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Illaoi matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a great counter to Illaoi. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz often gets less CS as Illaoi. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Illaoi build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Illaoi than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 53.9% battling Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Illaoi as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should use 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 used for Vel'Koz vs Illaoi clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.9% winrate overall.
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