Veigar vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Veigar
based on 2,014 Veigar vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Poppy
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 Poppy
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
Veigar vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Veigar in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several critical Veigar vs. Poppy matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Poppy..
Veigar usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Poppy. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Poppy
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Who is Better, Veigar or Poppy?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Poppy, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Veigar makes an ok counter to Poppy.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate than Poppy, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Poppyas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. 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 in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Poppy matchups, Veigar 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 team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter for Poppy. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Poppy.
Other Champion Matchups Against Veigar
Additional Information for Veigar Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar often gets more CS as Poppy. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Veigar versus Poppy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Veigar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Poppy than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Veigar boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when playing against Poppy with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Poppy 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 runes we have analyed for Veigar vs Poppy counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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