Veigar vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Veigar
based on 1,133 Veigar vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Veigar vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several critical Veigar vs. Kalista counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Veigar usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Kalista
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Who is Better, Veigar or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Veigar usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 54.1% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a great counter to Kalista.
While Veigar does have a much higher win rate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, 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 Kalistaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Veigar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Kalista matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a great counter for Kalista. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Veigar versus Kalista build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Kalista than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 54.1% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Kalista as Veigar, Veigar players 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 rune combinations we have analyed for Veigar vs Kalista counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.1% win rate overall.
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