Rammus vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Rammus
based on 1,378 Rammus vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Vel'Koz
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Rammus in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some influential Rammus versus Vel'Koz matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz..
Rammus normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rammus and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Rammus or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually loses when taking on Vel'Koz, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes a poor counter for Vel'Koz.
While Rammus does have a lower winrate than Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rammus into Vel'Koz.
Furthermore, Rammus has a great amount of CC and other utility, 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 Rammus vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Rammus is a somewhat poor counter to Vel'Koz. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rammus against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus on average picks up less CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Rammus versus Vel'Koz build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Vel'Koz as Rammus, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Rammus vs Vel'Koz counters, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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