Veigar vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Veigar
based on 5,096 Veigar vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Veigar vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Veigar in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Veigar versus Garen matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Veigar often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Garen
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Who is Better, Veigar or Garen?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Garen, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Veigar does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Veigar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Garen matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter for Garen. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Veigar versus Garen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Veigar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when countering Garen with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Garen 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. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Veigar vs Garen face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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