Vel'Koz vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Vel'Koz
based on 1,732 Vel'Koz vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Vel'Koz vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several valuable Vel'Koz vs. Soraka counter stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Vel'Koz often has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Soraka. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Soraka
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually loses when trying to fight Soraka, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a poor counter to Soraka.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower winrate than Soraka, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Sorakaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Vel'Koz is a somewhat poor counter to Soraka. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Soraka 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 stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average accumulates much more CS as Soraka. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Soraka build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Soraka than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 48.5% battling Soraka with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Soraka as Vel'Koz, you 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 rune sets we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Soraka clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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