Vel'Koz vs Vladimir
How to Beat Vladimir as Vel'Koz
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Vel'Koz vs Vladimir Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vladimir as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Vladimir
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
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.
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.
Advice to Win Against Vladimir
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Vel'Koz vs Vladimir Counter Stats
How to Counter Vladimir with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here feature some vital Vel'Koz against Vladimir matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vladimir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vladimir..
Vel'Koz usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Vladimir. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Vladimir
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Vladimir?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when taking on Vladimir, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a good counter to Vladimir.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate than Vladimir, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Vladimiras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Vladimir 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 teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a good counter for Vladimir. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Vladimir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually picks up less CS as Vladimir. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Vel'Koz versus Vladimir build include Luden's Tempest, Morellonomicon, and Shard of True Ice. When Vel'Koz included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Vladimir than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 52.4% when countering Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Vladimir 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 combinations that we analyzed for Vel'Koz vs Vladimir matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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