Vel'Koz vs Urgot
How to Beat Urgot as Vel'Koz
based on 1,537 Vel'Koz vs Urgot matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Urgot Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Urgot Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Urgot as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Urgot
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 Urgot
If you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
Vel'Koz vs Urgot Counter Stats
How to Counter Urgot with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several important Vel'Koz versus Urgot matchup stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between these two champs. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Urgot’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Urgot. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Vel'Koz typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Urgot. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Urgot
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Urgot?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when playing against Urgot, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter for Urgot.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate than Urgot, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Urgotas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash 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 Urgot. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Urgot matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter for Urgot. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Urgot.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Urgot during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz on average accumulates less CS compared to Urgot. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz versus Urgot build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Urgot than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 50.2% when playing against Urgot with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Urgot as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should use 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 that we analyzed for Vel'Koz vs Urgot face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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