Veigar vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Veigar
based on 8,555 Veigar vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Veigar vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some strategic Veigar vs. Brand matchup stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Brand..
Veigar normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Brand. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Brand
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Who is Better, Veigar or Brand?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Veigar usually loses when taking on Brand, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes a poor counter to Brand.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate than Brand, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Veigar into Brandas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Veigar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Veigar is a trash counter to Brand. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar often picks up more CS as Brand. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Veigar versus Brand build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Veigar included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Brand than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 47.6% battling Brand with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Brand as Veigar, Veigar players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Transcendence, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Veigar vs Brand matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
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