Vel'Koz

MidBotSupportAPrangedteamfightpick

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Comp identity — Mid / Bot / Support

Leans Siege — its strongest of the five comp axes.

Plays like — nearest pentagon

Ranked by how close their five-axis heatmap looks — role-agnostic.

Where it thrives (5-comp fit)

Siegenatural · 80%
Catchworkable · 40%
Attackforced · 10%
Vel'Koz chokes a siege with waveclear and zone control — nothing crosses the line for free. Enough Catch sits in the kit to punish a caught enemy before the fight starts. Passive stacks 'Organic Deconstruction' up to 3 times, consuming for bonus true damage.

Kit quirks

Passive stacks 'Organic Deconstruction' up to 3 times, consuming for bonus true damage
E (Tectonic Disruption) is an AoE knockup + 0.75s stun, unusually strong hard-CC for a poke mage
R channels a beam dealing true damage instead of magic damage to fully-stacked ('researched') targets

How Vel'Koz actually performs in ranked solo queue · 80 weighted games

Solo queue strength

Bot52% WR · 35.3 games
Support48% WR · 27.3 games
Mid51% WR · 14.1 games
Top50% WR · 3.5 games

Strongest duos

Best matchups

No favored matchups recorded.

Hardest matchups

No losing matchups recorded.

Duo playbook

+ Brand (Support/Bot)
Both champions' AoE Ws hard-push waves and punish the enemy under tower, and both ultimates combine for one of the nastiest level-6 all-ins in the game (roles are swappable); the tradeoff is that neither has a gap closer, so the duo is vulnerable to hard engage.
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Vel'Koz — The Eye of the Void

Class: Artillery
Resource: Mana
Range type: Ranged
Adaptive type: Magic
Positions: Support
Released: 2014-02-27 (V4.3)
Last changed: V26.21
Price: 1,618 BE · 880 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	590	+102	2324
Health regen (per 5s)	5.5	+0.55	14.85
Mana	469	+21	826
Mana regen (per 5s)	8	+0.8	21.6
Armor	22	+4.7	101.9
Magic resist	30	+1.3	52.1
Attack damage	55	+3.14	108.41
Attack speed	0.643	+1.59%	0.812
Attack speed ratio	0.625
Attack range	525
Movement speed	340

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Acquisition radius: 575
Selection height: 302.7778
Selection radius: 120
Pathing radius: 35
Attack delay offset: -0.1
Basic attack missile speed: 0

ARAM: damage dealt ×0.95 · damage taken ×1.05

URF: damage dealt ×0.95 · damage taken ×1

Abilities

Passive

Organic Deconstruction

Innate: Vel'Koz's abilities apply a stack of Deconstruction to enemies hit for 7 seconds, refreshing on basic attacks on-hit and subsequent applications and stacking up to 3 times.

The third stack consumes them all to deal 35 – 205 (based on level) (+ 65% AP) bonus true damage.

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: Enemies / SelfDamage type: Proc damageDamage sub-types: TrueSpell shield: BlockedParries: Missing

Notes (2)

The stack duration will not be refreshed if the attack misses due to blind.
PENDING FOR TEST: Interaction between duration refresh on basic attacks and parry effects ( dodge and block).

Plasma Fission

Cost: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 ManaCooldown: 7Cast time: 0.25Range: 1100 • 1100Width: 100 • 90Speed: 1300 • 2100

Active: Vel'Koz fires a plasma bolt in the target direction that deals magic damage to the first enemy hit and slows them by 70% decaying over a duration. Plasma Fission can be recast after 0.25 seconds while the bolt is in flight, and does so automatically upon hitting an enemy or reaching maximum range.

Magic Damage: 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+ 90% AP)
Slow Duration: 1 / 1.4 / 1.8 / 2.2 / 2.6 seconds

Recast: Vel'Koz splits the bolt in two over 0.25 seconds, each part firing perpendicularly in opposite directions and applying the same effects to enemies hit.

Whenever Plasma Fission kills an enemy, Vel'Koz restores mana.

Mana Restored per Kill: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30
Maximum Mana Restored: 60 / 67.5 / 75 / 82.5 / 90

Targeting input: Direction • AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: Blocked

Notes (8)

The initial cast counts as an ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and triggering Force Pulse's passive.
Detonating the ability manually does not.
Plasma Fission's damage applies before Organic Deconstruction's.
This also ensures Vel'Koz does not lose Plasma Fission's restoration effect.
An enemy cannot be hit by multiple bolts even when having blocked one with a spell shield.
The split occurs at a location 55 units in front of the primary bolt's final location.
Plasma Fission can reach a maximum 1595 units diagonally (ignoring the split missile's width and enemy hitbox radius), reaching this distance after a total of about ~1.65 seconds.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.

Plasma Fission

Cost: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 ManaCooldown: 7Cast time: 0.25Range: 1100 • 1100Width: 100 • 90Speed: 1300 • 2100

Magic Damage: 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+ 90% AP)
Slow Duration: 1 / 1.4 / 1.8 / 2.2 / 2.6 seconds

Recast: Vel'Koz splits the bolt in two over 0.25 seconds, each part firing perpendicularly in opposite directions and applying the same effects to enemies hit.

Whenever Plasma Fission kills an enemy, Vel'Koz restores mana.

Mana Restored per Kill: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30
Maximum Mana Restored: 60 / 67.5 / 75 / 82.5 / 90

Targeting input: Direction • AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: Blocked

Notes (8)

The initial cast counts as an ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and triggering Force Pulse's passive.
Detonating the ability manually does not.
Plasma Fission's damage applies before Organic Deconstruction's.
This also ensures Vel'Koz does not lose Plasma Fission's restoration effect.
An enemy cannot be hit by multiple bolts even when having blocked one with a spell shield.
The split occurs at a location 55 units in front of the primary bolt's final location.
Plasma Fission can reach a maximum 1595 units diagonally (ignoring the split missile's width and enemy hitbox radius), reaching this distance after a total of about ~1.65 seconds.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.

Void Rift

Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 Mana + 1 ChargeCast time: noneStatic cooldown: 1.5Recharge: 19 / 18 / 17 / 16 / 15Range: 1105 • 1105 • -95Width: 175 • 175Speed: 1700

Active: Vel'Koz cracks a rift in the target direction that opens after a 0.25-second delay, cascading through the area over 0.65 seconds to deal magic damage to enemies within.

Magic Damage: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 (+ 20% AP)

After 0.75 seconds, the rift violently collapses, dealing magic damage to enemies within and granting sight of the surrounding area for 0.25 seconds.

Magic Damage: 45 / 75 / 105 / 135 / 165 (+ 25% AP)
Total Magic Damage: 75 / 125 / 175 / 225 / 275 (+ 45% AP)

Vel'Koz periodically stocks a Void Rift charge, up to a maximum of 2.

Targeting input: DirectionAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: See NotesProjectile: See Notes

Notes (2)

Unbreakable and Wind Wall will block the ripple and prevent the rift from forming further, but they will not destroy the section that was created already.
Spell shield only blocks one instance of damage.

Tectonic Disruption

Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 ManaCooldown: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10Cast time: 0.25Target range: 800Effect radius: 225

Active: Vel'Koz hurls a disruptive anomaly that lands to the target location after 0.25 – 0.55 (based on cast distance) seconds, dealing magic damage to enemies hit and knocking them up and stunning them for 0.75 seconds, as well as granting sight of the area briefly.

Magic Damage: 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+ 30% AP)

If Tectonic Disruption is cast in close proximity of Vel'Koz, the anomaly will also slightly knock back enemies hit in the direction of the cast.

Targeting input: LocationTarget out-of-range override: Walk in range of the target location to castAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: See Notes

Notes (6)

The required proximity for the knock back is relative to Vel'Koz's position when casting and not his current one.
While the effect is fully prevented by blocking the missile (e.g. with Unbreakable and Wind Wall), the missile may not be destroyed visually.(bug)
The area of effect indicator appears at the end of the cast time.
It will persist even if the cast cancels (e.g. Vel'Koz dies before cast time completes) despite the projectile not firing.
Displacement immunity will also resist the application of the stun.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the start of the cast time.

Life Form Disintegration Ray

Cost: 100 ManaCooldown: 100 / 90 / 80Cast time: noneRange: 1555Width: 175

Passive - Researched: Applying 3 Deconstruction stacks to an enemy champion marks them as Researched for 7 seconds, refreshing on basic attacks and ability hits against them.

Active: After a 0.25-second delay, Vel'Koz channels for up to 2.6 seconds to project an energy beam, during which he can steer the beam in the target direction. Life Form Disintegration Ray can be recast after 1 second during the channel, and does so automatically after the duration.

The beam deals magic damage to enemies hit every 0.25 seconds, and slows them by 20%, lingering for 1 second. The first tick of damage is dealt instantly, while the remaining ticks are applied at the specified tick rate after 0.35 seconds of the target being hit. Deconstruction is applied every 0.7 seconds to enemies hit. Researched enemies take true damage instead.

Damage Per Tick: 45 / 70 / 92.5 (+ 12.5% AP)
Maximum Damage: 450 / 700 / 925 (+ 125% AP)

Recast: Vel'Koz ends Life Form Disintegration Ray.

Targeting input: Direction / AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: AOE DOT damageDamage sub-types: Magic, TrueProjectile: Not BlockedDisruption: Interrupted

Notes (7)

Life Form Disintegration Ray's direction updates gradually (moving the cursor from one side of Vel'Koz to the other will not make him rotate instantly).
Vel'Koz will reveal himself if the ray is near an enemy champion.
The beam hits in a rectangular shape, intersecting with the edge of an enemy gameplay radius.
Because of this, the effect will hit enemies whose center location is to the sides and/or slightly behind Vel'Koz, as long as their radius intersects with the area.
The following table refers for interactions while Vel'Koz is channeling:
Death
Cast-inhibiting effects

Map-specific differences (1)

Cooldown changed to 80 / 70 / 60 seconds.

Life Form Disintegration Ray

Cost: 100 ManaCooldown: 100 / 90 / 80Cast time: noneRange: 1555Width: 175

Passive - Researched: Applying 3 Deconstruction stacks to an enemy champion marks them as Researched for 7 seconds, refreshing on basic attacks and ability hits against them.

Damage Per Tick: 45 / 70 / 92.5 (+ 12.5% AP)
Maximum Damage: 450 / 700 / 925 (+ 125% AP)

Recast: Vel'Koz ends Life Form Disintegration Ray.

Targeting input: Direction / AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: AOE DOT damageDamage sub-types: Magic, TrueProjectile: Not BlockedDisruption: Interrupted

Notes (7)

Life Form Disintegration Ray's direction updates gradually (moving the cursor from one side of Vel'Koz to the other will not make him rotate instantly).
Vel'Koz will reveal himself if the ray is near an enemy champion.
The beam hits in a rectangular shape, intersecting with the edge of an enemy gameplay radius.
Because of this, the effect will hit enemies whose center location is to the sides and/or slightly behind Vel'Koz, as long as their radius intersects with the area.
The following table refers for interactions while Vel'Koz is channeling:
Death
Cast-inhibiting effects

Map-specific differences (1)

Cooldown changed to 80 / 70 / 60 seconds.

Stats and abilities from the League of Legends Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0), built for patch 26.22.

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Where it thrives (5-comp fit)

Siegenatural · 80%

Catchworkable · 40%

Attackforced · 10%

Vel'Koz chokes a siege with waveclear and zone control — nothing crosses the line for free. Enough Catch sits in the kit to punish a caught enemy before the fight starts. Passive stacks 'Organic Deconstruction' up to 3 times, consuming for bonus true damage.

Duo playbook

+ Brand (Support/Bot)

Both champions' AoE Ws hard-push waves and punish the enemy under tower, and both ultimates combine for one of the nastiest level-6 all-ins in the game (roles are swappable); the tradeoff is that neither has a gap closer, so the duo is vulnerable to hard engage.

via Skill Capped ↗

Champion reference

Base stats and every ability with its per-rank values and ratios. Search all champions →

Vel'Koz — The Eye of the Void

Class: Artillery
Resource: Mana
Range type: Ranged
Adaptive type: Magic
Positions: Support
Released: 2014-02-27 (V4.3)
Last changed: V26.21
Price: 1,618 BE · 880 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	590	+102	2324
Health regen (per 5s)	5.5	+0.55	14.85
Mana	469	+21	826
Mana regen (per 5s)	8	+0.8	21.6
Armor	22	+4.7	101.9
Magic resist	30	+1.3	52.1
Attack damage	55	+3.14	108.41
Attack speed	0.643	+1.59%	0.812
Attack speed ratio	0.625
Attack range	525
Movement speed	340

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Acquisition radius: 575
Selection height: 302.7778
Selection radius: 120
Pathing radius: 35
Attack delay offset: -0.1
Basic attack missile speed: 0

ARAM: damage dealt ×0.95 · damage taken ×1.05

URF: damage dealt ×0.95 · damage taken ×1

Abilities

Passive

Organic Deconstruction

Innate: Vel'Koz's abilities apply a stack of Deconstruction to enemies hit for 7 seconds, refreshing on basic attacks on-hit and subsequent applications and stacking up to 3 times.

The third stack consumes them all to deal 35 – 205 (based on level) (+ 65% AP) bonus true damage.

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: Enemies / SelfDamage type: Proc damageDamage sub-types: TrueSpell shield: BlockedParries: Missing

Notes (2)

The stack duration will not be refreshed if the attack misses due to blind.
PENDING FOR TEST: Interaction between duration refresh on basic attacks and parry effects ( dodge and block).

Plasma Fission

Cost: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 ManaCooldown: 7Cast time: 0.25Range: 1100 • 1100Width: 100 • 90Speed: 1300 • 2100

Magic Damage: 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+ 90% AP)
Slow Duration: 1 / 1.4 / 1.8 / 2.2 / 2.6 seconds

Recast: Vel'Koz splits the bolt in two over 0.25 seconds, each part firing perpendicularly in opposite directions and applying the same effects to enemies hit.

Whenever Plasma Fission kills an enemy, Vel'Koz restores mana.

Mana Restored per Kill: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30
Maximum Mana Restored: 60 / 67.5 / 75 / 82.5 / 90

Targeting input: Direction • AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: Blocked

Notes (8)

The initial cast counts as an ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and triggering Force Pulse's passive.
Detonating the ability manually does not.
Plasma Fission's damage applies before Organic Deconstruction's.
This also ensures Vel'Koz does not lose Plasma Fission's restoration effect.
An enemy cannot be hit by multiple bolts even when having blocked one with a spell shield.
The split occurs at a location 55 units in front of the primary bolt's final location.
Plasma Fission can reach a maximum 1595 units diagonally (ignoring the split missile's width and enemy hitbox radius), reaching this distance after a total of about ~1.65 seconds.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.

Plasma Fission

Cost: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 ManaCooldown: 7Cast time: 0.25Range: 1100 • 1100Width: 100 • 90Speed: 1300 • 2100

Magic Damage: 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+ 90% AP)
Slow Duration: 1 / 1.4 / 1.8 / 2.2 / 2.6 seconds

Recast: Vel'Koz splits the bolt in two over 0.25 seconds, each part firing perpendicularly in opposite directions and applying the same effects to enemies hit.

Whenever Plasma Fission kills an enemy, Vel'Koz restores mana.

Mana Restored per Kill: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30
Maximum Mana Restored: 60 / 67.5 / 75 / 82.5 / 90

Targeting input: Direction • AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: Blocked

Notes (8)

The initial cast counts as an ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and triggering Force Pulse's passive.
Detonating the ability manually does not.
Plasma Fission's damage applies before Organic Deconstruction's.
This also ensures Vel'Koz does not lose Plasma Fission's restoration effect.
An enemy cannot be hit by multiple bolts even when having blocked one with a spell shield.
The split occurs at a location 55 units in front of the primary bolt's final location.
Plasma Fission can reach a maximum 1595 units diagonally (ignoring the split missile's width and enemy hitbox radius), reaching this distance after a total of about ~1.65 seconds.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.

Void Rift

Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 Mana + 1 ChargeCast time: noneStatic cooldown: 1.5Recharge: 19 / 18 / 17 / 16 / 15Range: 1105 • 1105 • -95Width: 175 • 175Speed: 1700

Active: Vel'Koz cracks a rift in the target direction that opens after a 0.25-second delay, cascading through the area over 0.65 seconds to deal magic damage to enemies within.

Magic Damage: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 (+ 20% AP)

After 0.75 seconds, the rift violently collapses, dealing magic damage to enemies within and granting sight of the surrounding area for 0.25 seconds.

Magic Damage: 45 / 75 / 105 / 135 / 165 (+ 25% AP)
Total Magic Damage: 75 / 125 / 175 / 225 / 275 (+ 45% AP)

Vel'Koz periodically stocks a Void Rift charge, up to a maximum of 2.

Targeting input: DirectionAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: See NotesProjectile: See Notes

Notes (2)

Unbreakable and Wind Wall will block the ripple and prevent the rift from forming further, but they will not destroy the section that was created already.
Spell shield only blocks one instance of damage.

Tectonic Disruption

Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 ManaCooldown: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10Cast time: 0.25Target range: 800Effect radius: 225

Magic Damage: 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+ 30% AP)

If Tectonic Disruption is cast in close proximity of Vel'Koz, the anomaly will also slightly knock back enemies hit in the direction of the cast.

Notes (6)

The required proximity for the knock back is relative to Vel'Koz's position when casting and not his current one.
While the effect is fully prevented by blocking the missile (e.g. with Unbreakable and Wind Wall), the missile may not be destroyed visually.(bug)
The area of effect indicator appears at the end of the cast time.
It will persist even if the cast cancels (e.g. Vel'Koz dies before cast time completes) despite the projectile not firing.
Displacement immunity will also resist the application of the stun.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the start of the cast time.

Life Form Disintegration Ray

Cost: 100 ManaCooldown: 100 / 90 / 80Cast time: noneRange: 1555Width: 175

Passive - Researched: Applying 3 Deconstruction stacks to an enemy champion marks them as Researched for 7 seconds, refreshing on basic attacks and ability hits against them.

Damage Per Tick: 45 / 70 / 92.5 (+ 12.5% AP)
Maximum Damage: 450 / 700 / 925 (+ 125% AP)

Recast: Vel'Koz ends Life Form Disintegration Ray.

Targeting input: Direction / AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: AOE DOT damageDamage sub-types: Magic, TrueProjectile: Not BlockedDisruption: Interrupted

Notes (7)

Life Form Disintegration Ray's direction updates gradually (moving the cursor from one side of Vel'Koz to the other will not make him rotate instantly).
Vel'Koz will reveal himself if the ray is near an enemy champion.
The beam hits in a rectangular shape, intersecting with the edge of an enemy gameplay radius.
Because of this, the effect will hit enemies whose center location is to the sides and/or slightly behind Vel'Koz, as long as their radius intersects with the area.
The following table refers for interactions while Vel'Koz is channeling:
Death
Cast-inhibiting effects

Map-specific differences (1)

Cooldown changed to 80 / 70 / 60 seconds.

Life Form Disintegration Ray

Cost: 100 ManaCooldown: 100 / 90 / 80Cast time: noneRange: 1555Width: 175

Passive - Researched: Applying 3 Deconstruction stacks to an enemy champion marks them as Researched for 7 seconds, refreshing on basic attacks and ability hits against them.

Damage Per Tick: 45 / 70 / 92.5 (+ 12.5% AP)
Maximum Damage: 450 / 700 / 925 (+ 125% AP)

Recast: Vel'Koz ends Life Form Disintegration Ray.

Targeting input: Direction / AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: AOE DOT damageDamage sub-types: Magic, TrueProjectile: Not BlockedDisruption: Interrupted

Notes (7)

Life Form Disintegration Ray's direction updates gradually (moving the cursor from one side of Vel'Koz to the other will not make him rotate instantly).
Vel'Koz will reveal himself if the ray is near an enemy champion.
The beam hits in a rectangular shape, intersecting with the edge of an enemy gameplay radius.
Because of this, the effect will hit enemies whose center location is to the sides and/or slightly behind Vel'Koz, as long as their radius intersects with the area.
The following table refers for interactions while Vel'Koz is channeling:
Death
Cast-inhibiting effects

Map-specific differences (1)

Cooldown changed to 80 / 70 / 60 seconds.

Stats and abilities from the League of Legends Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0), built for patch 26.22.