Support · 88 games · NA

Vel'Koz

Support · 38% of games Bot · 38%Mid · 22%

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (44%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+277 gold).

Win rate: 45.5%; ±10.4 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #37 of 50
Pick rate: 1.4%; ban 0.6%
Games: 88; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Vel'Koz support wins 45.5% of 88 ranked games in NA, rank 37 of 50 support champions (tier C). Most players finish Luden's Echo first, at about 14:00.

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 13:55 · 39% · 32 games

Boots

Boots of Swiftness 12:30 · 55% of games

Item 2 · late game

Shurelya's Battlesong 22:54 · 13 of 59 games

Item 3 · late game

Zhonya's Hourglass 32:42 · 4 of 18 games

Runes

Dark Harvest · Domination + Sorcery 27% of games · 42% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 99% of games · 46% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Heal 95% of games · 46% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Plasma Fission first 97% of games · 46% wins Skill orders →

When Vel'Koz wins

Best when games end at 25–30′

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

Ends before 25′44% wins31% of games · 27

Lasts 25′ or more45% wins64% of games · 56

Lanes

Watch out for Nautilus

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

What wins Vel'Koz games

First Baron: 81% against 25%

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

First Baron 25% 81% +56

First dragon 18% 66% +48

First tower 20% 67% +47

First blood 35% 57% +22

Rift Herald 40% 55% +14

First Voidgrubs 47% 42% −5

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 solo kills, more multikills

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

More solo kills a game0.5 against 0.2 · +150%

More multikills a game0.22 against 0.10 · +120%

More damage a minute698 against 364 · +92%

More share of team damage19% against 10% · +87%

More minions a minute1.5 against 1.1 · +40%

About average: deaths.

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 ~14:12

Item 2done ~23:42

Item 3done ~30:18

Item 4done ~35:42

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

Health Potion + Health Potion46.0%87

Health Potion0.0%1

Boots

Boots of Swiftness ~12:3041.7%48

Sorcerer's Shoes ~15:3045.5%22

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~14:2453.8%13

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal46.4%84

Exhaust + Flash33.3%3

Flash + Ignite0.0%1

Skills

Max

E45.9%85

Max

E50.0%2

Start

E41.7%72

Start

W60.0%15

Hard lanes

Watch out for Nautilus

Easy lanes

No clearly easy lane yet

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 0 of them

Expected: what Vel'Koz's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (14)

Thresh 33% · 6

Leona 60% · 5

Nami 40% · 5

Alistar 50% · 4

Bard 25% · 4

Seraphine 50% · 4

Yuumi 50% · 4

Pantheon 100% · 3

Blitzcrank 67% · 3

Senna 33% · 3

Karma 0% · 3

Soraka 67% · 3

Lulu 33% · 3

Sona 100% · 3

Vel'Koz vs Nautilus · 10 games · Early read

Vel'Koz does worse than expected here

30%winsexpected 48%

−128gold at 15′average +277

+5.4minions at 10′ahead or behind

40%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.20 a game

Gold lead against Nautilus Vel'Koz's average lead

Against Nautilus, Vel'Koz is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 67% of games, and still wins 33% of those. When ahead, Vel'Koz wins 0%.

Ahead at 15′0% wins3 games

Behind at 15′33% wins6 games

Full Vel'Koz vs Nautilus page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most supports

Before 14 minutes Vel'Koz dies 2.4 times a game (average 2.5). 37% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 46% for the average support. 13% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.4deaths per game before 14′about average (2.5)

37%involve the enemy junglerless than average (46%)

87%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (90%)

28%with no teammate nearabout average (26%)

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 bot lane

Ganks: 42% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 56% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 36% in their half of bot 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 support

What kills Vel'Koz

Kind of death

Vel'Koz Average

Gank 37% (avg 46%)Collapse 50% (avg 44%)1-v-1 13% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Vel'Koz Average

Bot laner 44% (avg 42%)Jungler 24% (avg 24%)Support 13% (avg 15%)Mid laner 14% (avg 15%)Top laner 4% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00

Vel'Koz Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00.

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 bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.7 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.3 in your half of bot lane. Overall 0.8 kills per death.

Their half of bot lane 1.7 K/D 82 / 48

Your half of bot lane 0.3 K/D 27 / 94

The bot-side river 0.6 K/D 15 / 27

Your jungle 0.4 K/D 7 / 18

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 dragonsWorth knowingNear 51% of their team's dragon takes (average support 50%). The team wins 64% when Vel'Koz is there and 74% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 10:00 (average 11:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 44%; for Vel'Koz it is 45% against 50%.

Vel'Koz

What most Vel'Koz players run

Best when games end at 25–30′

Watch out for Nautilus

First Baron: 81% against 25%

More solo kills, more 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

Watch out for Nautilus

No clearly easy lane yet

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 0 of them

Vel'Koz does worse than expected here

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Vel'Koz's games

Dies about as often as most supports

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Vel'Koz

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00

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

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Where fights happen