Vel'Koz vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Vel'Koz
based on 1,137 Vel'Koz vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Nilah
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.
Vel'Koz vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several significant Vel'Koz vs. Nilah counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nilah..
Vel'Koz usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Nilah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Nilah
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Nilah?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually loses when taking on Nilah, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes a poor counter to Nilah.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower win rate than Nilah, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Nilahas his relative depth means that 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 Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Vel'Koz is a somewhat poor counter for Nilah. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, 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 relative to Nilah. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Nilah build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Nilah than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when countering Nilah with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Nilah as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Vel'Koz vs Nilah LoL games, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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