Nami vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Nami
based on 3,427 Nami vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Veigar
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Nami in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several significant Nami versus Veigar counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Veigar. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Nami usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Veigar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nami and Veigar
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Who is Better, Nami or Veigar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nami usually fairs equally well when facing off against Veigar, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Nami makes an ok counter for Veigar.
While Nami does have a lower win rate compared to Veigar, when facing one another, Nami also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nami into Veigar.
Additionally, Nami also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nami vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nami is a somewhat poor counter to Veigar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nami to counter Veigar during both the early game 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 tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami often racks up a lot less CS as Veigar. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nami versus Veigar build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Veigar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Veigar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Veigar as Nami, Nami players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Nami vs Veigar counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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