Vel'Koz vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Vel'Koz
based on 657 Vel'Koz vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Vel'Koz vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Vel'Koz versus Kalista counter statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Vel'Koz typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Kalista
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Kalista?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Kalistaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Kalista 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is an above average counter for Kalista. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz typically racks up less CS relative to Kalista. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Kalista build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 52.4% battling Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Kalista 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 runes we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Kalista LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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