Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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 shown on this page show several significant Udyr vs. Veigar matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Veigar..
Udyr often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Veigar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Udyr usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Veigar, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Udyr makes an ok counter for Veigar.
While Udyr does have a lower winrate compared to Veigar, when on opposite teams, Udyr also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Udyr into Veigaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Udyr also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Veigar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Udyr vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Udyr is a somewhat poor counter for Veigar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Udyr against Veigar.
To truly master Udyr 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Udyr usually gets less CS relative to Veigar. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Udyr versus Veigar build include Riftmaker, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Udyr included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Veigar than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Udyr boasted an average win rate of 49.8% battling Veigar with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Veigar as Udyr, Udyr players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Udyr vs Veigar matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
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