Vel'Koz vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Vel'Koz
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Vel'Koz vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Vel'Koz vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Vel'Koz versus Taliyah matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah..
Vel'Koz typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Taliyah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Taliyah?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 54.5% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a great counter for Taliyah.
While Vel'Koz does have a much higher win rate compared to Taliyah, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Taliyahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vel'Koz also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Taliyah 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 teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a great counter to Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Taliyah. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Vel'Koz versus Taliyah build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Taliyah than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 54.5% battling Taliyah with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Taliyah 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 players chose for Vel'Koz vs Taliyah LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.5% win rate overall.
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