Veigar vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Veigar
based on 5,255 Veigar vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Veigar vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Veigar in LoL
The stats provided here feature some strategic Veigar vs. Blitzcrank counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Blitzcrank. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Veigar often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Blitzcrank. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Veigar or Blitzcrank?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually loses when facing off against Blitzcrank, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, Veigar makes a bad counter for Blitzcrank.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate compared to Blitzcrank, when facing one another, Veigar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Veigar into Blitzcrankas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a trash counter for Blitzcrank. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar in order to counter Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar often picks up much more CS relative to Blitzcrank. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Blitzcrank build include Banshee's Veil, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Blitzcrank than with most other common builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 47.6% when countering Blitzcrank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Blitzcrank as Veigar, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Veigar vs Blitzcrank counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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