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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some significant Renata Glasc vs. Vel'Koz counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between the two. Renata Glasc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Renata Glasc may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Vel'Koz. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Renata Glasc usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Renata Glasc usually fairs equally well when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Renata Glasc makes an ok counter to Vel'Koz.
While Renata Glasc does have a higher winrate than Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Renata Glasc also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Renata Glasc into Vel'Kozas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Renata Glasc also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Renata Glasc vs Vel'Koz matchups, Renata Glasc is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Renata Glasc is a decent counter for Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Renata Glasc against Vel'Koz.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Renata Glasc in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renata Glasc most often accumulates less CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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 on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Renata Glasc versus Vel'Koz build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Ardent Censer. When Renata Glasc used at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better countering Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Renata Glasc had an average win rate of 50.4% battling Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Vel'Koz as Renata Glasc, you should equip the Guardian, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Renata Glasc vs Vel'Koz clashes, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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