Thresh vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Thresh
based on 3,132 Thresh vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Vel'Koz
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some valuable Thresh vs. Vel'Koz counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, showing that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vel'Koz. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Vel'Koz. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Thresh or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Vel'Koz, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a poor counter for Vel'Koz.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate compared to Vel'Koz, when facing one another, Thresh also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Thresh into Vel'Kozas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh 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 teammates during team fights.
Thresh is a terribly counter to Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often gets less CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, 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 need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Thresh versus Vel'Koz build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Vel'Koz than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when playing against Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Vel'Koz as Thresh, Thresh players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Thresh vs Vel'Koz matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.3% win rate overall.
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