Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Special statistics 
Abilities[edit | edit source]
Champion skins[edit | edit source]
- This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Vel'Koz (Collection).
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Christian Fell, Alex 'alexplank' Flores
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Patch history[edit | edit source]
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
Tectonic Disruption
- Bug Fix: No longer reveals the user if cast while the cursor is near an enemy champion.
- V14.22 - November 6th Hotfix
- Tectonic Disruption
- Bug Fix: Travel time is once again reduced with decreasing cast distance, instead of always requiring the maximum amount of time.
- Tectonic Disruption
- Cooldown reduced to 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12 seconds from 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12.
Life Form Disintegration Ray
- Coldown reduced to 100 / 90 / 80 seconds from 120 / 100 / 80.
- Stats
- Selection radius increased to 120 units from 88.8889007568359.
Arclight Vel'Koz, 
Bee'Koz, 
Battlecast Vel'Koz
Void Rift
- Bug Fix: No longer uses VFX and particles from
Star Guardian Rell's 
Magnet Storm.
- Bug Fix: No longer uses VFX and particles from
- Tectonic Disruption
- Travel time reduced to 0.25 – 0.55 (based on cast distance) seconds from 0.55 seconds at all distances.
- New Effect: Ground indicator now appears when the cast time has finished and not on-cast.
- Void Rift
- Bug Fix: Rift missile and the entire visual effects now spawn even if he dies in the first 0.25 seconds after casting. Consequently, the rift collapse damage is now accompanied by its proper visuals in this case.
- Tectonic Disruption
- New Effect: Missile now spawns near the target location instead of at his location.
- Bug Fix: Spell no longer fizzles out it if he moved further than 1100 units away from the target location before the end of the cast time (e.g. using
Flash).
Organic Deconstruction
- Base true damage increased to 35 – 180 (based on level) from 33 – 169 (based on level).
- AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 50% AP.
- Stats
- Base attack speed increased to 0.643 from 0.625.
- Attack speed growth increased to 1.59% from 1.36%.
- Life Form Disintegration Ray
- Bug Fix: Minimum recast delay increased to 1 second from 0.75 seconds into the channel.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 590 from 520.
- Health growth increased to 102 from 88.
- Armor growth increased to 4.7 from 3.5.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 1.3 from 0.5.
Plasma Fission
- AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 80% AP.
- Void Rift
- Initial AP ratio increased to 20% AP from 15% AP.
- Lifeform Disintegration Ray
- Bug Fix: When it is cast in spectate mode, no longer causes the game replay to crash.
- General
- Updated visual effects.
Original Vel'Koz
- Complete overhaul and adjusted hitbox indicators.
- Battlecast Vel'Koz
- Some cleanup.
- Arclight Vel'Koz
- Cleanup and new E indicator.
Infernal Vel'Koz
- Minor tweaks and new E indicator.
Blackfrost Vel'Koz
- Minor tweaks and new E indicator.
- Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 55 from 54.83787.
- Base armor increased to 22 from 21.88.
- Plasma Fission
- Bug Fix: Now properly triggers
Horizon Focus. - Hit sound no longer plays twice when the spell hits an enemy for the first time before splitting on base and all skins.
- Bug Fix: Now properly triggers
- Battlecast Vel'Koz
- Bug Fix: Dance sound effects now loop correctly.
- Bug Fix: Restored the sound that plays while Plasma Fission's plasma bolt travels after splitting has been restored.
- Arclight Vel'Koz
- Bug Fix: Dance sound effects now loop correctly.
- Bug Fix: Restored the sound that plays when an enemy has been hit by Void Rift's detonate.
- Infernal Vel'Koz
- Now plays metal sounds when hit instead of flesh sounds.
- Bug Fix: Restored respawn sound effects.
- Bug Fix: Restored the sound that plays when a second stack of his passive is applied to enemy champions.
- General
- Recommended items updated.
- Life Form Disintegration Ray
- New Effect: Now triggers effects that are triggered by DoT AoE abilities.
- Plasma Fission
- AP ratio increased to 80% AP from 60% AP.
- Stats
- Base mana increased to 469 from 375.6.
- Mana growth reduced to 21 from 42.
- Base mana regeneration increased to 8 from 6.
- Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 5.5 from 5.424.
- Battlecast Vel'Koz
- Life Form Disintegration Ray
- Bug Fix: Red beam VFX are no longer missing.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 520 from 507.68.
- Health growth increased to 88 from 76.
Definitely Not Vel'Koz
- Bug Fix: Tentacles no longer abruptly transition during animations.
- Stats
- Magic resistance growth increased to 0.5 from 0.
- General
- Bug Fix: Arclight Vel'Koz's spawning portal no longer sits on top of his tentacles during his respawn animation.
- Plasma Fission
- Slow decay duration increased to 1 / 1.4 / 1.8 / 2.2 / 2.6 seconds from 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2
- Lifeform Disintegration Ray
- Base damage reduced to 450 / 625 / 800 from 500 / 725 / 950
- New Effect: Enemies hit gain an Organic Deconstruction stack once every 0.7 seconds, up to 3 times. Enemies that become
Researched during the channel are dealt true damage for the remainder of its duration
- Organic Deconstruction
- AP ratio increased to 50% AP from 40% AP
- Lifeform Disintegration Ray
- AP ratio increased to 125% AP from 100% AP
- Organic Deconstruction
- Per-level damage reduced to 8 from 10
- Removed: Lifeform Disintegration Ray applying stacks
- New Effect: Has a 40% AP ratio
- Plasma Fission
- New Effect: If it kills a target Vel'Koz restores 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30 mana
- Removed: Target indicator being visible to enemies
- Void Rift
- Initial AP ratio reduced to 15% AP from 25% AP
- Detonation AP ratio reduced to 25% AP from 37.5% AP
- Tectonic Disruption
- AP ratio reduced to 30% AP from 50% AP
- Lifeform Disintegration Ray
- New Effect: Enemies with 3 Organic Deconstruction stacks are marked as Researched for 7 seconds. Damage from basic attacks and abilities refreshes this duration.
- New Effect: Researched enemies are dealt true damage
- Base damage increased to 500 / 725 / 950 from 500 / 700 / 900
- AP ratio increased to 100% AP from 60% AP
- Cooldown reduced to 120 / 100 / 80 seconds from 130 / 110 / 90
- New Effect: Enemies with 3
- Lifeform Disintegration Ray
- Bug Fix: Doing various strange things if cast right when Vel'Koz last-hits a target
- Stats
- Mana increased to 375.6 from 325.6
- Mana growth reduced to 42 from 45
- Plasma Fission
- Reactivation delay reduced to 0.25 seconds from 0.3
- Secondary bolts range increased to 1100 from 900
- Lifeform Disintegration Ray
- New Effect: Vel'Koz can cancel it early by taking
Dark Passage
- New Effect: Vel'Koz can cancel it early by taking
- Void Rift
- Area of effect width increased to 88 from 65 to match visuals
- Lifeform Disintegration Ray
- Range increased to 1550 from 1500 to match visuals
- Plasma Fission
- New Effect: Bolt will split right after Vel'Koz dies
- Stats
- Armor increased to 16 from 12
- General
- Texture update to Classic
- Added
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Vel'Koz has Pi (3.141592) attack damage growth and uses Trigonometry to land Plasma Fission.
- Vel'Koz's taunt is Schrödinger's equation written in Visitor language from V by Kenneth Johnson.
- Vel'Koz is based on the Oculothorax archetype, with one of these in particular (Shuma-Gorath from Marvel Comics) used as the basis for Life Form Disintegration Ray.
- Vel'Koz's personality might have been based on the amoral Decepticon scientist Shockwave, from the Transformers franchise. Shockwave's head consists mostly of his single glaring eye, which might also have inspired Vel'Koz.
- Vel'Koz had his game assets reused for several featured game modes.
- He was given a retexture and features as a monster called the "Shooty Eyeball Monster" (along with its huge variant) in
Invasion. - His animations were reused for the
Landsquid and 
Squidtooth monsters in 
Odyssey: Extraction.
- He was given a retexture and features as a monster called the "Shooty Eyeball Monster" (along with its huge variant) in
- Life Form Disintegration Ray is the longest ability name, at 28 characters long.
- For contrast, it is longer than
Hop, the shortest ability name at 3 characters long, by 25 characters.
- For contrast, it is longer than
- Vel'Koz's
Blue Essence cost is 1618, a reference to the Golden ratio.
See also[edit | edit source]
basic attack animation that must play out in order to launch it. For 
projectile basic attacks, the windup usually aligns with drawing the projectile on-screen.The attack windup is displayed as a percentage, and any windup modifier is listed as a decimal next to it.
The Attack speed ratio (AS ratio) adjusts the effectiveness of bonus AS from all sources. It is usually equal to the unit's base AS (level 1 with no bonuses), but tuning to a higher or lower relative value translates to more or less bonus AS received compared to other units with the same base AS.
(All values in decimal form)
The ingame stats HUD displays the AS ratio instead of base AS to communicate this comparative effectiveness. The Wiki opts to always list both stats and show the AS ratio as "N/A" if the two are equal.
Gameplay radiusA unit's gameplay radius is a stat that most closely resembles the concept of a 'hitbox', and is the radius used for 
edge range effects, which include basic attacks, line collision missiles, rectangular AOEs, and others. The gameplay radius determines the reach of both incoming and outgoing effects: for example, enemies are within a unit's 
basic attack range based on the edge of their gameplay radius and vice versa.
Selection radiusA unit's selection radius is a stat that determines the horizontally furthest point from the center of their model that other players' cursor is allowed to be, while still maintaining the ability to select that unit.
Selection heightGameplay in League of Legends takes place in two dimensions no matter the visuals. However, a virtual height dimension that is perpendicular to the ground creates the game's three-dimensional view, which in combination with the camera's perspective necessitates the usage of the selection height.
Acquisition radiusA unit's acquisition range is a stat that determines the distance at which they will acquire attack targets when a target unit is not specified by the player.
- Auto-attacking automatically orders an idle champion to acquire enemies within this range. This can be disabled in the Settings.
- Attack-move commands scan for targets within this range while moving toward a given location.
Attack range bonuses modify the champion's acquisition range by the same amount.
Support
Bottom Carry. This role's initial goal is to assist their more vulnerable team mate through the earliest stages of the game, and is a position that suits champions with either utility, disengage or high base damage.
Within a duo lane, the optimal strategy for earning gold is to designate a single champion to farm while the other is recommended to purchase an economy item. The Support is expected to fulfill the latter designation: consequently, the position is not suitable for champions that are highly dependent on item-based power spikes. The Support is also expected to be the primary contributor to the team's 
vision.
Enchanters, Catchers, 
Wardens and 
Burst Mages are the most likely champions to be selected in the Support position.
ArtilleryArtillery Mages are the masters of range, and they leverage that advantage to whittle down their opponents over time from great distances. In turn, Artillery Mages are severely punished when enemies finally succeed in closing in on them, due to their extreme fragility and limited mobility.
- Examples
Mage (Legacy)
Support (Legacy)Support refers to a broad roster of champions who support their allies. As this description is better suited to the champion's role within a drafted team, individual supports can vary wildly from champions that can create opportunities for their allies by disrupting the enemy, defensive casters whose abilities empower their allies and more durable champions that hold their team's front line.
Mana
Mana (also known as MP) is a stat that is the resource of many champions necessary to cast most of their abilities. Mana can be restored via mana regeneration and some abilities, items, runes, and buffs.
Mana is represented in-game by the blue bar within the HUD, indicating the champion's current mana and maximum mana. Current mana is reduced by expenditure through paying an ability's mana cost.
RangedRanged champions have a basic attack range usually beyond 300 units. Many deal damage through projectiles, which are subject to mitigating effects like 
Wind Wall. Some champions can shift between a ranged and melee form, and certain items/runes differ for ranged characters.
Proc damage
spell damage and so will trigger ability effects. Some forms of on-hit damage, such as by 
Blade of the Ruined King and 
Sheen Spellblade, also benefit from 
life steal.
Proc damage does not interact with most other effects, such as 
Luden's Companion or 
Arcane Comet. The main exception is:
Omnivamp and 
Physical vamp (where applicable) heal for a percentage of damage dealt.
Effects triggered by damage subtypes will still occur in spite of proc damage's non-reactive nature (e.g. 
Black Cleaver on instances of 
Physical damage and 
Morellonomicon on instances of 
Magic damage).
True damage- Applies:
- Mitigated by:
Centered rangeCentered range is calculated from the center of a source unit's hitbox to the center of a target unit's hitbox.
- Centered range is used for most unit-targeted abilities.
- It is less effective and may seem to have diminished reach against large units.
Edge rangeEdge range is calculated from the edge of a source unit's hitbox to the edge of a target unit's hitbox.
- Edge range is mostly used for basic attacks; skill shots; and point-blank areas of effect (including auras).
- These become more effective against large champions, as the source gains more reach against them. This may be favorable or unfavorable: durable champions tend to be larger and thus easier to hit, and frail champions tend to be smaller and more difficult to hit.
Slow
movement speed for the duration. Slow percentages cannot reduce a target below 110 movement speed. Some slows will instead modify the target's movement speed to a static value, which may not be further reduced nor increased.Only the slow with the highest value is taken into movement speed calculations. All additional slows are ignored until the higher-valued slow wears off. The strength of slows may amplify or decay over their duration. Slows of the same debuff cannot stack and will instead refresh on each application unless otherwise stated.
| Interrupts: | Does not interrupt any actions. |
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| Reduction: | The duration is affected by  Tenacity.The strength is reduced by |
| Resist: | Resisted by  crowd control immunity and  slow immunity.
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| Removal: | Removed by  Cleanses,  Garen's  Decisive Strike,  Master Yi's  Highlander and  Nunu's  Biggest Snowball Ever!.
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Area damageArea damage is the damage type dealt by most area of effect abilities, as well as a select few basic attacks, items and runes. Area damage is not exclusive to being applied by purely physical, magic or 
true damage, and instead can be dealt by any of the three damage sub-types.
- Spell vamp heals with one-third effectiveness.
- Many items effects are triggered whenever you deal an instance of area damage (i.e. ability effects).
- For example:
Rylai's Crystal Scepter, 
Liandry's Torment and Luden's Companion. - Compared to single target spell damage, area damage does not trigger
Muramana.
- For example:
- Arcane Comet's current cooldown is reduced by 10% whenever you deal an instance of area damage to a champion.
- Area damage is reduced by 25% versus
Jax's 
Counter Strike. - Many champion summoned units such as
Elise's 
Spiderlings, 
Yorick's 
Mist Walkers, and 
Naafiri's 
Dune Hounds take reduced damage from area damage.
Effects triggered by damage subtypes will occur (i.e. physical, magic or true).
Magic damage- Applies:
Bloodletter's Curse's Vile Decay- Morellonomicon's and
Oblivion Orb's 
Grievous Wounds - Omnivamp
- Triggers:
- Mitigated by:
Damage shields
Invulnerability- Damage reduction
Magic resistance
Magic shields
Spellblade
on-hit trigger after casting a champion ability.The following items grant Spellblade:
Spell shieldA spell shield refers to one of several effects that have the capacity to negate hostile abilities from applying to the recipient. A spell shield may negate many active effects coming from champion abilities, epic monsters, champion summoned units, and items, but almost none from runes and summoner spells with the only exceptions of Arcane Comet, 
Unleashed Smite, and 
Primal Smite which will be blocked.
- See the article for more details.
Sight
center range. A line of vision cannot extend beyond terrain or an unrevealed brush.
Sight can also refer to an effect that makes a unit visible regardless of the fog of war or 
brush, allowing them to be targeted. 
Standard sight cannot see 
stealthed units, but 
True Sight can.
Nearsight is a 
crowd control debuff that inhibits sight; allied vision is lost in addition to a reduced sight radius.
Obscured vision is similar to sight in a way that it can observe units, but does not render units targetable, rather it exposes their position and informs of their presence.
Unobstructed vision is a form of sight that allows a unit to be able to see their full vision radius, ignoring any obstructions that would otherwise restrict visibility.- All effects that use
unit-targeting require sight of the target. Delayed unit-targeted attacks and spells can cancel if sight of the selected target is suddenly lost.
AirborneA unit that is knocked airborne undergoes a forced displacement in a specified direction, to a specific point, or for a set duration at its current location, during which it is also unable to control its movement, declare attacks, cast abilities, activate items or use the 
summoner spells Flash, 
Teleport, 
Hexflash, and 
Mark / 
Dash.
Airborne is an immobilizing effect.
| Interrupts: | Interrupts attack windups (excluding  uncancellable windups), and all  channeled and charged abilities. The accompanying displacement overrides all other previous displacements, including dashes and other airborne effects.
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| Reduction: | The duration of airborne and its forced movement execution time is unaffected by Tenacity.
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| Resist: | Resisted by crowd control immunity,  displacement immunity, and  Dr. Mundo's  Goes Where He Pleases.
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| Removal: | The forced movement that is applied alongside airborne effects cannot be removed by cleanses, which innately disables attacking and moving and can be overridden by dashing, blinking or  lunging. Cleansing effects, with the exceptions of  Milio's  Breath of Life,  Cleanse,  Mikael's Blessing, and  Quicksilver, remove the airborne status effect.
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Crowd control applied by one's self or an ally cannot be countered in any way, neither reduced in duration, resisted, nor removed unless special cased to do so.
Stun summoner spells Flash, Teleport, Hexflash, and Mark / Dash for the duration.Stun is an
immobilizing effect.
| Interrupts: | Interrupts attack windups (excluding uncancellable windups) and all channeled and charged abilities.
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| Reduction: | The duration is affected by Tenacity.
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| Resist: | Resisted by crowd control immunity and Dr. Mundo's Goes Where He Pleases.
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| Removal: | Removed by Cleanses.
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Crowd control applied by one's self or an ally cannot be countered in any way, neither reduced in duration, resisted, nor removed unless special cased to do so.
Stun summoner spells Flash, Teleport, Hexflash, and Mark / Dash for the duration.Stun is an
immobilizing effect.
| Interrupts: | Interrupts attack windups (excluding uncancellable windups) and all channeled and charged abilities.
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| Reduction: | The duration is affected by Tenacity.
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| Resist: | Resisted by crowd control immunity and Dr. Mundo's Goes Where He Pleases.
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| Removal: | Removed by Cleanses.
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Crowd control applied by one's self or an ally cannot be countered in any way, neither reduced in duration, resisted, nor removed unless special cased to do so.
Displacement immune
Airborne effects in addition to the following effects: - Crowd control
- Champion abilities
ChannelA channeled ability is an ability that can be prevented from reaching its conclusion, by the user themself and / or because of other effects.
A charged ability has a channel that is toggled by two activations - the first begins the charging and the second will fire the ability. While using Quick cast, the player must keep the hotkey held down to charge the ability and release to fire. Unlike normal channels, the caster is still able to move freely and cast movement abilities, unless otherwise stated.
A movement channel is a type of channel which also involves the caster moving from their position, usually in the form of traversal such as dashes and blinks. This means the crowd control effects 
ground and 
root, which both inhibit the activation of movement spells, can interrupt the channel.
The following crowd control effects will 
interrupt all channels (except uninterruptible ones):
- Airborne
Forced action (
Charm, 
Flee, 
Taunt)- Silence ( Disrupt, Polymorph)
Sleep
Stasis- Stun ( Suspension)
Suppression
ChampionChampions are the player-controlled characters in League of Legends. Each champion possesses unique abilities and attributes.
Persistent area damage
In situations where 
persistent damage and 
area damage would have conflicting outputs, the conflict is resolved by choosing the weakest possible outcome.
- Physical vamp and Spell vamp (where applicable) heals with one-third effectiveness, as with area damage.
- Arcane Comet's cooldown is reduced by 5%, as with persistent damage, per target affected.
- Counter Strike reduces the damage dealt by 25%, as with area damage.
References[edit | edit source]
- League of Legends champion
- Vel'Koz
- Champion gameplay article
- Mana champion
- Ranged champion
- 2014 release
- Artillery champion
- Mage champion (Legacy)
- Support champion (Legacy)
- Support champion
- Middle champion
- Adaptive magic champion
- 1618 BE champion
- 880 RP champion
- Knockback champion
- Mana Heal champion
- Slow champion
- Knockup champion
- Stun champion