Vel'Koz vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Vel'Koz
based on 1,170 Vel'Koz vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Ziggs
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 Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Vel'Koz vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here show some valuable Vel'Koz against Ziggs counter stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ziggs..
Vel'Koz typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Ziggs. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Ziggs?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 51.1% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes a good counter for Ziggs.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate than Ziggs, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Ziggsas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Ziggs matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter for Ziggs. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Ziggs.
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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 Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually gets less CS relative to Ziggs. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Ziggs build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Ziggs than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 51.1% when countering Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Ziggs 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. Of all the rune builds players picked for Vel'Koz vs Ziggs matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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