Vel'Koz vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Vel'Koz
based on 710 Vel'Koz vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Vel'Koz vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some important Vel'Koz vs. Ryze counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ryze..
Vel'Koz typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Ryze. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Ryze
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Ryze?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when playing against Ryze, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter for Ryze.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate than Ryze, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Vel'Koz into Ryzeas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. 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 Ryze matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter to Ryze. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz to counter Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average racks up less CS relative to Ryze. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Vel'Koz versus Ryze build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Ryze than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when countering Ryze with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Ryze as Vel'Koz, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Vel'Koz vs Ryze counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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