Vel'Koz vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Vel'Koz
based on 3,111 Vel'Koz vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Vel'Koz vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some valuable Vel'Koz versus Varus matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Varus..
Vel'Koz typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Varus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Varus
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Varus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when playing against Varus, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a good counter to Varus.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate than Varus, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vel'Koz into Varusas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Varus. This 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 in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Varus 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 team members during team fights.
Vel'Koz is an above average counter for Varus. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz often picks up less CS as Varus. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Varus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Varus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Varus with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Varus 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. Out of all the runes players used for Vel'Koz vs Varus matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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