Vel'Koz vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Vel'Koz
based on 3,608 Vel'Koz vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Samira
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 Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several influential Vel'Koz against Samira counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Samira. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Vel'Koz often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Samira. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Samira
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Samira?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when facing off against Samira, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a good counter for Samira.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Samira, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vel'Koz into Samiraas 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 also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Samira matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Vel'Koz is a good counter to Samira. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz typically gets less CS as Samira. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Samira build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Samira than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 52.5% when countering Samira with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Samira as Vel'Koz, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Samira LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
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