Veigar vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Veigar
based on 2,403 Veigar vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Veigar vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some valuable Veigar versus Heimerdinger matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Heimerdinger..
Veigar often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Heimerdinger. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Veigar or Heimerdinger?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when taking on Heimerdinger, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes an ok counter for Heimerdinger.
While Veigar does have a higher winrate compared to Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Heimerdingeras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Heimerdinger matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter for Heimerdinger. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Veigar versus Heimerdinger build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when playing against Heimerdinger with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Heimerdinger 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 that we analyzed for Veigar vs Heimerdinger fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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