Viktor vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Viktor
based on 1,120 Viktor vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Vel'Koz
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Advice to Win Against Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Viktor vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Viktor in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Viktor vs. Vel'Koz matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz..
Viktor often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Viktor and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Viktor or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Viktor usually fairs equally well when facing off against Vel'Koz, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Viktor makes an ok counter to Vel'Koz.
While Viktor does have a higher winrate than Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Viktor also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Viktor into Vel'Kozas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Viktor has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Vel'Koz matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Viktor is a decent counter to Vel'Koz. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Viktor against Vel'Koz.
Other Champion Matchups Against Viktor
Additional Information for Viktor Players
How We Calculated Our Viktor vs Vel'Koz Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane 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 mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor typically picks up more CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Viktor versus Vel'Koz build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Vel'Koz than with many other common item sets. In fact, Viktor boasted an average winrate of 50.3% battling Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Vel'Koz as Viktor, Viktor players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Viktor vs Vel'Koz counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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