Veigar vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Veigar
based on 3,186 Veigar vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Veigar vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Veigar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Veigar against Bard counter stats that may help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Veigar usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Bard
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Who is Better, Veigar or Bard?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Veigar usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 46.2% win rate. Therefore, Veigar makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Veigar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Veigar into Bardas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a garbage counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar most often accumulates much more CS compared to Bard. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Bard build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cryptbloom, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 46.2% when countering Bard with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Bard as Veigar, Veigar players should take 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 combinations we have analyed for Veigar vs Bard battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.2% win rate overall.
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