Leona vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Leona
based on 5,174 Leona vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Veigar
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here feature several important Leona versus Veigar matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Veigar. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives more damage than Veigar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Veigar
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Who is Better, Leona or Veigar?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Veigar, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter for Veigar.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Veigar, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Leona into Veigar.
Moreover, Leona has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Veigar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Veigar matchups, Leona is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Leona is a decent counter for Veigar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Leona against Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona in order to counter Veigar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Veigar. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Leona versus Veigar build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Veigar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Veigar with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Veigar as Leona, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Leona vs Veigar face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Veigar as Leona are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.