Veigar vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Veigar
based on 5,498 Veigar vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Diana
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 Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Veigar vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some critical Veigar against Diana counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Diana..
Veigar often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Diana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Diana
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Who is Better, Veigar or Diana?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when playing against Diana, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes an ok counter to Diana.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate compared to Diana, when facing one another, Veigar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Dianaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter to Diana. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Diana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar usually picks up more CS compared to Diana. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Veigar versus Diana build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Veigar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Diana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 49.9% when countering Diana with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Diana as Veigar, you should take 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 combinations players picked for Veigar vs Diana face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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