Talk:Vel'Koz/@comment-8234800-20140211221432/@comment-8468980-20140212001916

"AP rates don't seem that strong."

He's a lane bully. He establishes an HP advantage by poking with good ranged abilities that are fairly difficult to avoid, proc CC, and have bonus true damage attached to them. Then you kick them out of lane or kill them. These types of champs have a good laning phase but if they cannot take advantage of it, they get outscaled by the likes of Karthus, Ryze, Veig, etc.