Vel'Koz vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Vel'Koz
based on 1,071 Vel'Koz vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Orianna
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 Orianna
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
Vel'Koz vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some critical Vel'Koz versus Orianna matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Orianna..
Vel'Koz normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Orianna. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Orianna
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Orianna?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when facing off against Orianna, with a 57.5% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes a fantastic counter for Orianna.
While Vel'Koz does have a much higher win rate compared to Orianna, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Oriannaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vel'Koz also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Orianna 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a great counter for Orianna. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Orianna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz to counter Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually gets less CS as Orianna. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Orianna build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Orianna than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 57.5% when countering Orianna with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Orianna 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. Out of all the runes players used for Vel'Koz vs Orianna counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 57.5% winrate overall.
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