Top · 26 games · EUW

Vel'Koz

Top · 5% of games Bot · 24%Support · 42%Mid · 29%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+329 gold).

Win rate: 57.7%; ±19.0 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #25 of 87
Pick rate: 0.2%; ban 1.2%
Games: 26; ranked solo/duo

Vel'Koz top wins 57.7% of 26 ranked games in EUW, rank 25 of 87 top champions (tier B). Most players finish Luden's Echo first, at about 10:24.

The build at a glance

What most Vel'Koz players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Luden's Echo 10:36 · 64% · 16 games

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity 13:42 · 38% of games

Item 2 · late game

Horizon Focus 20:12 · 7 of 24 games

Item 3 · late game

Shadowflame 25:42 · 3 of 13 games

Runes

Arcane Comet · Sorcery + Precision 27% of games · 86% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 100% of games · 58% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 58% of games · 73% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Plasma Fission first 92% of games · 63% wins Skill orders →

When Vel'Koz wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Lasts 25′ or more60% wins77% of games · 20

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Vel'Koz games

First blood: 83% against 36%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First blood 36% 83% +48

First Baron 38% 77% +38

First tower 40% 69% +29

First dragon 45% 67% +21

Rift Herald 56% 63% +7

First Voidgrubs 73% 47% −26

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Vel'Koz plays

More control wards, fewer multikills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average top laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More control wards a game1.65 against 0.42 · +293%

Fewer multikills a game0.19 against 0.42 · −55%

Less damage to towers6017 against 8717 · −31%

More assists a game6.9 against 5.3 · +29%

More damage a minute918 against 794 · +16%

About average: minions, solo kills, time spent dead.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~11:00

Item 2done ~20:36

Item 3done ~27:00

Item 4done ~34:06

Most common full builds

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Not enough games against this kind of team yet.

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion57.7%26

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~13:4260.0%10

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:0644.4%9

Boots of Swiftness ~12:1266.7%6

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport73.3%15

Flash + Ghost40.0%5

Flash + Barrier20.0%5

Skills

Max

E62.5%24

Max

E0.0%1

Start

E56.5%23

Start

W50.0%2

Dies about as often as most top laners

Before 14 minutes Vel'Koz dies 2.6 times a game (average 2.4). 37% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 38% for the average top laner. 52% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.6deaths per game before 14′about average (2.4)

37%involve the enemy junglerabout average (38%)

48%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (48%)

88%with no teammate nearmore than average (84%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Vel'Koz dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

Ganks: 52% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 57% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 57% in your half of top lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average top laner

What kills Vel'Koz

Kind of death

Vel'Koz Average

Gank 37% (avg 38%)Collapse 10% (avg 9%)1-v-1 52% (avg 52%)

Who gets the kill

Vel'Koz Average

Bot laner 0% (avg 2%)Jungler 31% (avg 24%)Support 7% (avg 3%)Mid laner 6% (avg 7%)Top laner 55% (avg 64%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 7:00

Vel'Koz Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 7:00.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Vel'Koz; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Vel'Koz wins fights

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.5 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.4 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.8 kills per death.

Their half of top lane 1.5 K/D 35 / 24

Your half of top lane 0.4 K/D 13 / 37

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Vel'Koz wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 29% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 88% when Vel'Koz is there and 64% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 16:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 50% against 50%; for Vel'Koz it is 57% against 58%.

Vel'Koz

What most Vel'Koz players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First blood: 83% against 36%

More control wards, fewer multikills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Vel'Koz's games

Dies about as often as most top laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Vel'Koz

Ganks come at 3:00 and 7:00

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Where fights happen

Where fights happen