Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential Ahri against Veigar counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Veigar..
Ahri typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Veigar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when trying to fight Veigar, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes a poor counter for Veigar.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Veigar, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Ahri into Veigar.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Veigar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ahri is a terribly counter to Veigar. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Veigar.
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often picks up a similar amount of CS as Veigar. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Ahri versus Veigar build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ahri bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Veigar than with most other common builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 47.2% battling Veigar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Veigar as Ahri, Ahri players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ahri vs Veigar fights, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
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