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Similar to Katarina, Akali pretty much counters you, just don't pick Vel'Koz, and if you are forced to, just farm all day long and try to shot her in teamfights.
Yasuo
Yasuo is a mobile ad burster, you don't want to mess with him, if you are forced to act as you do with the other counters, hug the turret, farm and wait for ganks.
Zed
Zed is an hard matchup, not hard as Yasuo tho, he should get very close to ulti you and you have the advantage in the early levels, at level 2 E-W combo him, and at level 3 E-W-Q combo him, this should be enough to make him recall giving you some level advantage. Post level 6 a good Zed will be a massive threat to you, always watch out for his shadows and keep in mind his cooldowns, if you play it well you can win it.
Veigar
Just don't get caught by his stun and melt that purple minion, really.
Fizz
Hard matchup, you are stronger pre-6 but after he can kill you with no difficulty. His E can jump your ultimate and your skillshot. Hug the turret and wait for ganks.
Katarina
Talon
HARD matchup, talon will slow you, silence you and make you explode, hug your turret, try to take advantage of your range and try to end the lanephase early to start roaming freely.
Brand
Brand is an easy matchup, get normal boots just after chalice to avoid his skillshots easier and lazer him to death.
Gragas
I don't think you will find a lot of Gragas mid now after patch 4.5, if you do it isn't a problem anymore, his Q got nerfed hard, and you won't be in range for the other skills, reade the old matchup down there if you are struggling (but you won't).
[old matchup, pre patch 4.5]
Gragas matchup can go from medium to hard depending on Graggie's skills.
He is a threat to you because of his E-Q-R combo, and his ulti stops yours, he is also really tanky for a midlaner, and you will have to poke him a bit before you can full combo him. I will suggest to force this lane as a farm lane, so always stay behind your minions, whatchout for his E cooldowns, and please after level 6 ALWAYS expect him to E-Q-R/E-R/flash/R or something/R you, so spare your flash for this case.
Remember to use your ultimate when his is on cooldown or when you are shure you can Instamelt him.
Malzahar
Vel'Koz excels at laning against slow champions with no gap closers, oh... Well... It's Malza! Just stay the hell away from his ultimate and you will be fine.
Ryze
You totally out-range this blue guy, he will never be able to reach you, probably you are one of his hardest counters, just care about his roaming, cause he will roam a lot, alert your team and take teleport to follow him.
Swain
Same as Malzahar, he is slow and he has no gapclosers, just try to deny his farm and to shut him down early, a fed Swain is a bad thing lategame. You beat him in early tho.
Ahri
Medium/Hard. It's hard to dodge that skillshots and comboing her with all that mobility and you being so slow, same as for all the hard matchups you have to take an advantage pre level 6 or it's done, not as hard as Kassa or Yasuo tho. Try to roam at your best and never 1v1 her, you will be a lot more useful in teamfights.
Anivia
Anivia has a weak laning phase, and her Q is really to dodge even if you are slow, her damage is pretty high tho and she has god lots of wave-clear, my suggestion here is to force her wasting her mana clearing your waves, so push hard, push as hard as you can, obviously you'll have to ward to do so. The later the match evolves the more powerful she will become so I'd suggest to push for objectives early on, care about her wall, can setup nice ganks.
Annie
Her autoattack range is somewhat annoying, and she has got a stun to stop your ultimate. Btw her spells range is short, and if you play safe and don't get in range this matchup should be pretty easy. Wait level 6 and lazah her.
Azir
Lots of lane pressure here, but you outrange his soldiers, keep your lane warded because he has got an awesome gank followup, push like mad and look for chances to roam.
Diana
Skill based matchup, a good Diana will win. Post 6 she is pretty dangerous, stay safe and abuse the fact that she is melee.
Jayce
Jayce is an hard matchup, not hard as Kata is but stills hard, safe farm and wait for your jungler, never ever ever get close to him, it's death.
Kayle
Kayle should be easy for you, you outrange her, just keep in mind that when you want to land your E you have to wait hers to go in CD.
Probably it won't be that easy to kill her post 6 because she can ult herself on your ulti and run/cure away, but she won't be also able to kill you.
Try to not make her farm a lot, and follow her roaming (taking teleport could be a good idea), you don't want Kayle to get fed.
Lux
Skill based matchup, you have similar kits, just try to land your spells before she lands hers and please, don't get caught by her Q. At level 6 you should be stronger.
LeBlanc
In an 1v1 situation Leblanc will just dominate you, she can easily evade your combo WHILE doing absurd amount of damage, also calling your jungler won't help that much just because she can evade really quickly and safe.
BUT, she lacks waveclear and a lot of her gameplay relies on kicking you out of lane and roaming, you have got some really fast and safe waveclear, shove the lane in her face and force her to farm under turret, negating her aggressive plays and roaming potential (remember to not to cross your lanes middle, just shove the wave and sit back looking at the map and maybe taking razorbeaks).
Nidalee
Medium difficulty matchup, can go from easy to tricky depending on the nida's skill. Level 1-6 are your best times to kill her, since when she gets her ultimate she will be a lot more mobile, remember to low her hp a lot before shooting your ultimate because if she's smart will heal some damage back with her umanform E.
Orianna
Orianna can be really hard to mess with, in fact this matchup can go from easy to HELL HARD depending on Orianna's skills. You will struggle avoiding her Q, so build boots asap.
Keep in mind that her ultimate counters yours, and that she can shield your damage off.
Try to force this as a farm lane if Orianna is good and catch any roam opportunity to get kills.
Syndra
This matchup can be medium or very difficult depending on syndra's skill.
Se has got a lot of burst and her spheres are really annoyn' for a slow squid like you.
Harrass her from distance and when she's at/under 50% her just fullcombo her out.
Ziggs
This matchup is skill based, your damage output is pretty similar, probably the only thing that puts you behind is that Ziggie's Q (his main damage resource) has got area damage and is easy to hit, your main damage resource is W, and it's harder to hit it twice to deal full damage, you can spam it tho. My advice is to buy early boots just after your dorans, try to force him to recall and go buy them as fast as you can (leaving the turret alone with a good Ziggs is a problem).
To win this matchup, avoid his Q and E and all in him with E-W-Q-W or E-W-Q-R when you can kill him.
Kassadin
Your only chance to do something when you face a good Kassadin is to kill him a couple of times before he reaches level 6, said this, never understimate his 1-5 levels, he is not weak like people say, as a main Kassadin I can say that if you don't play really really safe in the early levels he can harrass you hard, easy negating your damage with Q and then flash E W Q ignite you to death, post 6 nothing to say, you do your combo, he jumps on it, appears on your back and you are dead, stay safe, pick teleport and try to roam as much as possible, you CAN'T beat a decent Kassa 1v1, never.
Oh and his Q can interrupt your ultimate.
Try to shove waves and fast push to his turret, he will struggle a bit to cs during earlygame negating his roaming potential.
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