Veigar vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Veigar
based on 5,096 Veigar vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Veigar vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several significant Veigar vs. Katarina counter stats that can help you understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Katarina..
Veigar often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Katarina. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Katarina
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Who is Better, Veigar or Katarina?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually loses when trying to fight Katarina, with a 46.7% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a bad counter to Katarina.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate compared to Katarina, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Veigar into Katarinaas his relative depth means 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 Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a much lower 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 garbage counter for Katarina. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar to counter Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Katarina. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Katarina build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Veigar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 46.7% when playing against Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Katarina 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Veigar vs Katarina clashes, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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