Vel'Koz vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Vel'Koz
based on 3,226 Vel'Koz vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Vel'Koz vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several important Vel'Koz against Kai'Sa matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kai'Sa’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kai'Sa..
Vel'Koz usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Kai'Sa. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Kai'Sa?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when facing off against Kai'Sa, with a 53.5% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a great counter to Kai'Sa.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate than Kai'Sa, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Kai'Saas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Kai'Sa matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a great counter to Kai'Sa. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz to counter Kai'Sa 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 stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually picks up less CS as Kai'Sa. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Vel'Koz versus Kai'Sa build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Kai'Sa than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 53.5% when playing against Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Kai'Sa as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Vel'Koz vs Kai'Sa battles, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.5% win rate overall.
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