Veigar vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Veigar
based on 2,029 Veigar vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Gragas
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 Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Veigar vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several strategic Veigar versus Gragas counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gragas..
Veigar often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Gragas. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Gragas
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Who is Better, Veigar or Gragas?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually wins when trying to fight Gragas, with a 54.4% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a great counter for Gragas.
While Veigar does have a much higher win rate than Gragas, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Veigar into Gragasas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Gragas matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Veigar is a great counter for Gragas. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar often gets more CS relative to Gragas. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Veigar versus Gragas build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Veigar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Gragas than with most other typical builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 54.4% when countering Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Gragas as Veigar, Veigar players 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 chose for Veigar vs Gragas counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.4% win rate overall.
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