"Looks like we found the new broken mid"

I can't comprehend how that Zed lost to Vel'Koz.

Vel'koz is actually one of the better mages you could pick if you have to face a . His low mana costs, hard CC, and strong retaliation can give Zed a hard time if played correctly.

My favorite still has to be when a I went up against cried about how my stun was unfair. I was playing . I went off on him..."REALLY? My ONE, SKILLSHOT RELIANT, cc is unfair compared to the man with 1000 jumps?" He never said anything to me after that. I think I actually managed to win lane, but he would just roam and ended up 15/12 or something.

LMFAO

Honestly most of Zed players are delusional fanboys that think to be oldschool XPeke-LCS-Noscope360 just because they know Zed is an AD champion.

I've never lost a lan against Zed with Vel'koz, Xerath neither Talon (and I'm a real bad Talon)

I bet that Zed bought a Shockblade/SKT skin in game to show off to his teammates, despite being suckish with him.

Vel'koz main here. I actually think Velkoz beats Zed given enough player skill. When Zed ults you, a well timed E behind yourself with a W on top of it kills his damage potential and does close to half life for him ulting you. Velkoz is the kind of champion that rewards "reads" aka knowing where your opponent is going to be and then punishing them for it, and Zed's ult telegraphs where he's going to be in a second, which is all velkoz needs to line up his E combo. Not to mention you outpoke him and generally win trades as long as you don't miss your combos.

At low levels, yes, Zed probably bodies Velkoz for free but once players are at a skilled level, I think Velk has the advantage honestly. I don't think I've ever lost to a Zed as Velk before.

lmfao so trash. My first time zed was like 5 months ago in diamond i just picked him 1 time 15/2/10 Yeah. Real balanced. Was against a swain or nidalee idr.

People still think Vel'Koz is weak?

Easy to manage mana costs, even after the Mana Font nerf. Long range abilities Can farm very easily, with both spells and AA's. Strong harass(although easy to avoid).

1v1 sure Zed will win. But Vel'Koz will destroy his team in the time it takes for Zed to kill him. As long as Vel avoids those 1v1's he'll do fine.

I've beaten Zeds as Anivia. Talk about bad zeds getting hit by easiest skill shots to dodge in the game. Although...I guess Post-6 Anivia can actually handle Zed most of the time, it's just surviving the early game is what's hard.

I use to play Vel'koz a lot, he's still a very good champion when played right.

AGGHH ALL THESE THINGS SAYING ZED>VEL'KOZ omfg ppl you are so wrong vel'koz can kill zed the instat he ults.

According to champion.gg, which logs data from all plat+ games, mid has a 52.85% win rate against . Interestingly, He also has high win rates against some other assassins as well, notably a 52.4% rate against , a 59.01% rate against , and an absurd 62.5% rate against . In case anyone is interested, Vel'koz's toughest opponent in mid is , with only a 41.21% win rate.

And tbh, as a Vel'koz Player, those numbers all corroborate with my personal experience. Vel'koz actually does quite well against assassins up until they reach the point where they can 100-0 him before he has a chance to retaliate. Talon reaches this point faster than any other assassin and I've always considered him the hardest matchup as well. In contrast, champions like Zed, Akali, and Yasuo don't reach their 100-0 potential until far, far later in the game, and you should have a Zhonyas by that point. Akali in particular is an extremely easy matchup for Vel'koz, even before they nerfed her. You can harass her relentlessly until 6, she has no way to stop your ulti, and even after 6, her jumping on you if a free full combo to her face.

I think you have to still be decent with Zed. I am not sure how he lost to a vel koz when he can outsustain him, out poke him, and all in him the easiest out of all assassins(or champs in general) but its w/e i guess.

Epic

not to say that vel is broken, but imo his straight up damage on his q should be a little lower and his true damage passive should be a little higher.

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A just said that in a game after losing to . LOLOLOLOLOL

if the koz is good it doesn't matter what the zed does. save e for when he initiates, then chunk him with q and w once he gets hit by them. learn to zone control

I actually play this lane on the side of Velkoz quite a bit. Its not hard for velkoz to handle Zed at all from my experience. Zed's range is pretty short compared to Vel'Koz and if Zed ever wants to all-in he's going to have to be melee range which is a free full combo for Velkoz to hit. The lane is target practice for Vel, that snowballs very hard either way.

Care there they might give Velkoz the viegar treatment, after all it seems when ever a rioter loses to some low picked champ ie viegar mordekaiser, they seem to get a "compensation"