Vel'Koz vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Vel'Koz
based on 2,053 Vel'Koz vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Vel'Koz vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here feature some valuable Vel'Koz versus Irelia matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Vel'Koz usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Irelia. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Irelia
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Irelia?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when taking on Irelia, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter to Irelia.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate than Irelia, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Ireliaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Irelia matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter to Irelia. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Irelia 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 mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average accumulates less CS relative to Irelia. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Irelia build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Irelia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 50.9% battling Irelia with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Irelia 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. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Vel'Koz vs Irelia counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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