Veigar vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Veigar
based on 5,174 Veigar vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Veigar vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Veigar against Leona counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Veigar often has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Leona
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Who is Better, Veigar or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Veigar to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar most often accumulates much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Veigar versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cryptbloom, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 48.5% battling Leona with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Leona as Veigar, Veigar players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Veigar vs Leona fights, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Leona as Veigar are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.