Kog'Maw vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Kog'Maw
based on 599 Kog'Maw vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Vel'Koz
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several important Kog'Maw against Vel'Koz counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Kog'Maw often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Vel'Koz. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kog'Maw usually loses when trying to fight Vel'Koz, with a 44.6% win rate. Thus, Kog'Maw makes a bad counter to Vel'Koz.
While Kog'Maw does have a much lower winrate compared to Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Kog'Maw also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kog'Maw into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Kog'Maw also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kog'Maw is a bad counter to Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kog'Maw against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kog'Maw to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning 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 tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw on average gets more CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Kog'Maw versus Vel'Koz build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Vel'Koz than with most other common builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 44.6% battling Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Vel'Koz as Kog'Maw, Kog'Maw players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Kog'Maw vs Vel'Koz counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.6% win rate overall.
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