Vel'Koz vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Vel'Koz
based on 2,797 Vel'Koz vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Vel'Koz vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Vel'Koz against Leona matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Vel'Koz typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Leona
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower winrate than Leona, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Vel'Koz into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a terribly counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to counter Leona during both the lane 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 presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz typically accumulates more CS compared to Leona. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz versus Leona build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Leona than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 47.7% battling Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Leona as Vel'Koz, you 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 players picked for Vel'Koz vs Leona fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
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