Katarina vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Katarina
based on 5,096 Katarina vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Veigar
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Veigar
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.
Katarina vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Katarina vs. Veigar matchup stats that can help us understand the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Veigar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Veigar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives more damage than Veigar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Veigar
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Who is Better, Katarina or Veigar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when facing off against Veigar, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a great counter for Veigar.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate compared to Veigar, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Katarina into Veigaras her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Veigar matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a great counter to Veigar. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina to counter Veigar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Veigar. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Katarina versus Veigar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Veigar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 53.3% when countering Veigar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Veigar as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Katarina vs Veigar face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.3% winrate overall.
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