Veigar vs Draven
How to Beat Draven as Veigar
based on 3,981 Veigar vs Draven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Draven Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Draven as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Draven
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 Draven
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
Veigar vs Draven Counter Stats
How to Counter Draven with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several significant Veigar versus Draven matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Draven’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Draven..
Veigar often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Draven. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Draven
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Who is Better, Veigar or Draven?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when taking on Draven, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes an ok counter for Draven.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate than Draven, when facing one another, Veigar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Dravenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Draven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Draven matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter to Draven. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Draven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Draven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Draven. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often 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 important items to focus on in your Veigar versus Draven build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Veigar used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Draven than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 50.4% battling Draven with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Draven as Veigar, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Veigar vs Draven counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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