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Vel'Koz Build

Mid Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 12,006 gamesUpdated

51.7%win rate0.5%pick2.3%ban

Who counters Vel'Koz

Every Mid matchup for Vel'Koz, ranked →

How to build Vel'Koz

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

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

54.7% win rate 15% of games 1,127 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchDominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter27% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport53%
Skills
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Plasma Fission
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Void Rift
29101113
Tectonic Disruption
314151617
Life Form Disintegration Ray
612
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Vel'Koz build →
51.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.4% over 23,663 gamesPatch 26.21: 51.7% over 12,006 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
52.0%at Emerald+
0.5%pick rate
2.3%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 3 last patch
52.8%under 22 min
50.2%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 35–40m
MASTER+
Vel'Koz champion portraitM Vel'KozvsLocke champion portraitM Locke
12 / 4 / 8

Build

Swiftmarch|Luden's Echo→Shadowflame→Stormsurge→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

FlashBarrier|

Skills

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Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Vel'Koz champion portraitM Vel'KozvsViktor champion portraitM Viktor
6 / 6 / 5

Build

Crimson Lucidity|Blackfire Torch→Liandry's Torment→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QWEWWRWQWQRQQEER
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Vel'Koz champion portraitM Vel'KozvsLocke champion portraitM Locke
7 / 9 / 4

Build

Swiftmarch|Blackfire Torch→Shadowflame→Cosmic Drive

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

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Runes

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

Most popular 48.2% win rate · 27% of games · 2,985 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
DominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 53.7% win rate · 22% of games · 2,445 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
PrecisionCut DownLegend: Haste
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport53%51.5%6,539 games
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier32%53.3%3,935 games

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

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes70%Crimson Lucidity16%Swiftmarch9%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 52.2% win rate

Vel'Koz build

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

  1. Zhonya's Hourglass1st
  2. Luden's Echo2nd
  3. Shadowflame3rd
7% of games that reach a third item take this path53.1% win rate533 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Vel'Koz →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 12,276 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
69% · 52.2% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
15% · 53.4% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
9% · 51.4% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
3% · 49.9% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 34.1% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
1% · 51.4% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes7% of games · 50.3% win rate · 906 games
  2. Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 43.0% win rate · 523 games
  3. Shadowflame›Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 50.4% win rate · 498 games
  4. Zhonya's Hourglass›Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes3% of games · 51.8% win rate · 313 games
  5. Zhonya's Hourglass›Shadowflame›Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 58.1% win rate · 248 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.

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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