Vel'Koz vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Vel'Koz
based on 2,684 Vel'Koz vs Rengar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Rengar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Vel'Koz vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some important Vel'Koz vs. Rengar matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rengar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rengar..
Vel'Koz typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Rengar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Rengar
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Rengar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when taking on Rengar, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter for Rengar.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate than Rengar, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Vel'Koz into Rengaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach 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 Rengar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Rengar matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter for Rengar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Rengar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to counter Rengar during both the lane 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 suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz often picks up more CS as Rengar. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz versus Rengar build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Rengar than with most other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Rengar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Rengar 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 that we analyzed for Vel'Koz vs Rengar clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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