Vel'Koz vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Vel'Koz
based on 2,653 Vel'Koz vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Vel'Koz vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some significant Vel'Koz against Tristana matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tristana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tristana..
Vel'Koz usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Tristana. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint 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 Tristana
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Tristana?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when playing against Tristana, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a good counter for Tristana.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Tristana, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Tristanaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tristana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Tristana 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 team members during team fights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter for Tristana. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz to counter Tristana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually picks up less CS compared to Tristana. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Tristana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Tristana than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 51.0% battling Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Tristana 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 runes players chose for Vel'Koz vs Tristana battles, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Tristana as Vel'Koz are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.