Vel'Koz vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Vel'Koz
based on 1,129 Vel'Koz vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Xayah
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 Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Vel'Koz vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Vel'Koz vs. Xayah counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xayah..
Vel'Koz often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Xayah. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Xayah
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Xayah?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when taking on Xayah, with a 54.0% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a great counter for Xayah.
While Vel'Koz does have a much higher winrate than Xayah, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vel'Koz into Xayahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Xayah matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ 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 for Xayah. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Xayah 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 tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz typically accumulates less CS compared to Xayah. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz versus Xayah build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Xayah than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 54.0% battling Xayah with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Xayah as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Vel'Koz vs Xayah matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.0% win rate overall.
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