Vel'Koz vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Vel'Koz
based on 1,785 Vel'Koz vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Vel'Koz vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several valuable Vel'Koz against Nunu & Willump matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nunu & Willump..
Vel'Koz often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Nunu & Willump?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when playing against Nunu & Willump, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes a good counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Nunu & Willump, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Nunu & Willumpas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter to Nunu & Willump. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually picks up more CS relative to Nunu & Willump. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many 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 Nunu & Willump build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Nunu & Willump than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when playing against Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Nunu & Willump 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 players used for Vel'Koz vs Nunu & Willump fights, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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