Vel'Koz vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Vel'Koz
based on 3,251 Vel'Koz vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Diana
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Advice to Win Against Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Vel'Koz vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here show some important Vel'Koz against Diana matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Diana..
Vel'Koz usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Diana. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Diana
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Diana?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when playing against Diana, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter to Diana.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower winrate than Diana, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Dianaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a somewhat poor counter for Diana. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Diana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Diana. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Vel'Koz versus Diana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Diana than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 49.1% battling Diana with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Diana as Vel'Koz, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Vel'Koz vs Diana clashes, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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