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Vel'Koz Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,309 gamesUpdated

49.5%win rate0.1%pick2.3%ban

Who counters Vel'Koz

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

54.9% win rate 9% of games 71 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchDominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter29% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport45%
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
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Vel'Koz build →
49.5%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.3% over 2,826 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.5% over 1,309 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
52.5%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
2.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
53.4%under 22 min
44.1%over 32 min

Vel'Koz Top gets better as the elo rises. 49.5% across Silver and above, and 52.5% at Emerald and up. It rewards players who know the matchup.

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 portraitT Vel'KozvsHeimerdinger champion portraitT Heimerdinger
5 / 9 / 7

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWQEQRQWQWRWWEERE
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Vel'Koz champion portraitT Vel'KozvsCho'Gath champion portraitT Cho'Gath
10 / 3 / 6

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Stormsurge→Horizon Focus→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

BarrierFlash|

Skills

QWEWQRQQQWRWWEERE
Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Vel'Koz champion portraitT Vel'KozvsMalphite champion portraitT Malphite
1 / 2 / 1

Build

Boots|Malignance

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRW

Runes

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

Most popular 47.6% win rate · 29% of games · 296 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
DominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 49.5% win rate · 10% of games · 105 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
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 + Teleport45%48.2%599 games
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier18%49.2%236 games

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

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes51%Boots of Swiftness25%Ionian Boots of Lucidity17%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 47.8% 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
4% of games that reach a third item take this path54.3% win rate35 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Vel'Koz →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,325 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
50% · 47.8% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
24% · 53.0% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
16% · 52.3% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 25.7% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
2% · 60.0% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes3% of games · 58.8% win rate · 34 games
  2. Luden's Echo+Sorcerer's Shoes2% of games · 46.9% win rate · 32 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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