Veigar vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Veigar
based on 8,020 Veigar vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Akali
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Veigar vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several important Veigar vs. Akali matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between these two champions. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s ratio of NaN, showing that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Akali..
Veigar usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Akali. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Akali
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Who is Better, Veigar or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually wins when taking on Akali, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a good counter to Akali.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate than Akali, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Akalias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Akali matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Veigar is a decent counter to Akali. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to counter Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Akali. Champions who typically don't earn much CS 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 abilities 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 values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Veigar versus Akali build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Banshee's Veil, and Stormsurge. When Veigar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Akali than with most other common item sets. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 51.5% battling Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Akali as Veigar, Veigar players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Veigar vs Akali battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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