Mid · 29 games · KR

Vel'Koz

Mid · 12% of games Bot · 41%Support · 45%

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−302 gold), and still wins 59%.

Win rate: 58.6%; ±17.9 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #21 of 75
Pick rate: 0.3%; ban 0.6%
Games: 29; ranked solo/duo

Vel'Koz mid wins 58.6% of 29 ranked games in KR, rank 21 of 75 mid champions (tier B). Most players finish Shurelya's Battlesong first, at about 10:48.

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 →

Boots

Boots of Swiftness 9:06 · 66% of games

Item 1

Shurelya's Battlesong 10:55 · 44% · 11 games

Item 2 · late game

Horizon Focus 18:48 · 7 of 26 games

Item 3 · late game

Cryptbloom 24:48 · 3 of 16 games

Runes

Stormraider's Surge · Sorcery + Precision 17% of games · 60% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 93% of games · 59% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ghost 41% of games · 50% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Plasma Fission first 62% of games · 67% 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 more58% wins66% of games · 19

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 Baron: 92% against 35%

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

First Baron 35% 92% +56

First tower 36% 72% +36

First Voidgrubs 36% 72% +36

First dragon 54% 63% +9

Rift Herald 59% 58% −0

First blood 61% 55% −7

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 mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More control wards a game2.90 against 1.72 · +69%

Fewer multikills a game0.41 against 0.67 · −39%

More assists a game8.0 against 6.1 · +31%

More deaths a game5.9 against 5.1 · +16%

More vision a minute0.98 against 0.85 · +15%

About average: kill participation, share of team damage.

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 ~19:18

Item 3done ~23:42

Item 4done ~28:36

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 Potion59.3%27

Doran's Ring100.0%1

Doran's Ring + Control Ward0.0%1

Boots

Boots of Swiftness ~9:0652.6%19

Mercury's Treads ~10:4850.0%4

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~9:0075.0%4

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost50.0%12

Flash + Teleport66.7%9

Exhaust + Flash66.7%3

Skills

Max

E66.7%18

Max

E45.5%11

Start

E60.9%23

Start

W0.0%3

Dies more than most mid laners

Before 14 minutes Vel'Koz dies 2.6 times a game (average 2.3). 53% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 52% for the average mid laner. 29% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.6deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.3)

53%involve the enemy junglerabout average (52%)

71%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (68%)

56%with no teammate nearless than average (61%)

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

Ganked in your jungle, collapsed on in your half of mid

Ganks: 23% in your jungle. Collapses: 31% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 55% in your half of mid.

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 mid laner

What kills Vel'Koz

Kind of death

Vel'Koz Average

Gank 53% (avg 52%)Collapse 17% (avg 16%)1-v-1 29% (avg 32%)

Who gets the kill

Vel'Koz Average

Bot laner 8% (avg 7%)Jungler 23% (avg 29%)Support 8% (avg 6%)Mid laner 57% (avg 53%)Top laner 4% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00–6:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Vel'Koz Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 9:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

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

Where fights happen

Before 14 minutes: 71 kills and 75 deaths.

Your half of mid 0.3 K/D 6 / 24

Their half of mid 1.4 K/D 15 / 11

The bot-side river 1.2 K/D 11 / 9

Your jungle 0.3 K/D 4 / 14

Their half of bot lane 3.0 K/D 12 / 4

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 32% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 79% when Vel'Koz is there and 68% when not.

Vel'Koz

What most Vel'Koz players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 92% against 35%

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 more than most mid laners

Ganked in your jungle, collapsed on in your half of mid

What kills Vel'Koz

Ganks come at 3:00–6:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Where fights happen

Where fights happen

Where fights happen