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Vel'Koz champion portrait

Vel'Koz Build

Support Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 38,282 gamesUpdated

51.3%win rate1.7%pick2.3%ban

Who counters Vel'Koz

Every Support matchup for Vel'Koz, ranked →

How to build Vel'Koz

Sorcerer's Shoes→Luden's Echo→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Sorcerer's Shoes → Luden's Echo → Shadowflame → Zhonya's Hourglass

52.1% win rate 12% of games 1,721 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchDominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter36% of games
SpellsFlashHealFlash + Heal71%
Skills
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Plasma Fission
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Void Rift
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Tectonic Disruption
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Life Form Disintegration Ray
61116
StartWorld AtlasHealth PotionHealth PotionWorld Atlas, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Vel'Koz build →

Best ADCs for Vel'Koz

Who Vel'Koz has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst ADCs for Vel'Koz

Who Vel'Koz has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

51.3%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.9% over 79,856 gamesPatch 26.21: 51.3% over 38,282 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.7%at Emerald+
1.7%pick rate
2.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
55.5%under 22 min
48.5%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Vel'Koz champion portraitS Vel'Koz+Jhin champion portraitB JhinvsAlistar champion portraitS Alistar+Viktor champion portraitB Viktor
8 / 6 / 17

Build

Zaz'Zak's RealmspikeBoots of Swiftness|Shurelya's Battlesong→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

HealFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREWE
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Vel'Koz champion portraitS Vel'Koz+Aphelios champion portraitB ApheliosvsAlistar champion portraitS Alistar+Zeri champion portraitB Zeri
3 / 13 / 7

Build

Zaz'Zak's RealmspikeIonian Boots of Lucidity|Shurelya's Battlesong→Horizon Focus

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWW
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Vel'Koz champion portraitS Vel'Koz+Jinx champion portraitB JinxvsLulu champion portraitS Lulu+Miss Fortune champion portraitB Miss Fortune
2 / 13 / 10

Build

Zaz'Zak's RealmspikeSorcerer's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Stormsurge

Spells & runes

HealFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWRWWE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 50.6% win rate · 36% of games · 13,419 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
DominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 51.0% win rate · 12% of games · 4,293 games
DominationDark HarvestCheap ShotDeep WardRelentless Hunter
SorceryManaflow BandScorch
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashHealFlash + Heal71%51.7%28,197 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash14%50.9%5,434 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes72%Ionian Boots of Lucidity15%Boots of Swiftness8%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 51.5% win rate
Support item
Zaz'Zak's Realmspike93%Celestial Opposition5%Solstice Sleigh1%
Zaz'Zak's Realmspike most often · 51.4% win rate

Vel'Koz build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Zhonya's Hourglass1st
  2. Shadowflame2nd
  3. Luden's Echo3rd
6% of games that reach a third item take this path50.4% win rate834 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Vel'Koz →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 38,795 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
70% · 51.6% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
14% · 52.4% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
8% · 54.0% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 46.5% win rate
No bootsNo boots
2% · 47.7% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
1% · 52.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Luden's Echo+Sorcerer's Shoes10% of games · 48.9% win rate · 3,788 games
  2. Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes9% of games · 53.4% win rate · 3,431 games
  3. Luden's Echo›Liandry's Torment+Sorcerer's Shoes4% of games · 50.9% win rate · 1,510 games
  4. Zhonya's Hourglass›Luden's Echo+Sorcerer's Shoes3% of games · 53.4% win rate · 1,320 games
  5. Shadowflame›Luden's Echo+Sorcerer's Shoes2% of games · 54.0% win rate · 802 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Vel'Koz against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Vel'Koz's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number. The best and worst ADCs are ranked the same way, against Vel'Koz's average instead of 50%.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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