Veigar vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Veigar
based on 4,773 Veigar vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Veigar vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several critical Veigar versus Malzahar counter statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between the two. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Malzahar..
Veigar often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Veigar or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes an ok counter to Malzahar.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate compared to Malzahar, when facing one another, Veigar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Malzaharas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter to Malzahar. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Veigar to counter Malzahar during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Veigar versus Malzahar build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Banshee's Veil, and Stormsurge. When Veigar used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Malzahar as Veigar, Veigar players 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 combinations players used for Veigar vs Malzahar face-offs, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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