Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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 stats provided here clarify some critical Tristana against Veigar counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Veigar..
Tristana often has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. On average, she takes more damage than Veigar. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when facing off against Veigar, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes an ok counter to Veigar.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate compared to Veigar, when facing one another, Tristana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Veigar.
Furthermore, Tristana has almost no 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter to Veigar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Veigar.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Veigar. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Tristana versus Veigar build consist of Phantom Dancer, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Veigar than with most other common builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when countering Veigar with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Veigar as Tristana, Tristana players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Tristana vs Veigar battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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