Vel'Koz vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Vel'Koz
based on 2,675 Vel'Koz vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Vel'Koz vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several important Vel'Koz vs. Katarina matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Katarina..
Vel'Koz often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Katarina. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Katarina
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Katarina?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when playing against Katarina, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a good counter to Katarina.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Katarina, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Vel'Koz into Katarinaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Katarina matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter for Katarina. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz to counter Katarina during both the early game 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 suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz often racks up less CS compared to Katarina. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Vel'Koz versus Katarina build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Katarina than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 51.7% when countering Katarina with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Katarina as Vel'Koz, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Katarina face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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