Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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 here underscore several important Kindred versus Veigar counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Veigar..
Kindred often has a similar longest killing spree as their foe does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Veigar. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kindred usually loses when facing off against Veigar, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Kindred makes a bad counter to Veigar.
While Kindred does have a lower win rate compared to Veigar, when on opposite teams, Kindred also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kindred into Veigar.
Furthermore, Kindred also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kindred is a bad counter to Veigar. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kindred against Veigar.
If you would like to truly master Kindred to counter Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred usually accumulates a lot less CS relative to Veigar. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Kindred versus Veigar build include Bloodthirster, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred included at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better countering Veigar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 47.2% when playing against Veigar with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Veigar as Kindred, Kindred players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Kindred vs Veigar fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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