Veigar vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Veigar
based on 901 Veigar vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Nidalee
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 Nidalee
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
Veigar vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some significant Veigar vs. Nidalee matchup statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nidalee..
Veigar normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Nidalee. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Veigar or Nidalee?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 53.9% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes a great counter to Nidalee.
While Veigar does have a higher winrate compared to Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Veigar into Nidaleeas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Nidalee matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a great counter to Nidalee. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Veigar in order to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar often picks up much more CS compared to Nidalee. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Veigar versus Nidalee build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Nidalee than with most other common item sets. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 53.9% when countering Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Nidalee 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 sets that we analyzed for Veigar vs Nidalee battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nidalee as Veigar are given for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.