Veigar vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Veigar
based on 3,039 Veigar vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Veigar vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some strategic Veigar against Soraka matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Veigar usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Soraka. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Soraka
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Who is Better, Veigar or Soraka?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually wins when facing off against Soraka, with a 51.1% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a good counter for Soraka.
While Veigar does have a higher winrate compared to Soraka, when facing one another, Veigar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Sorakaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Soraka matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Veigar is a decent counter for Soraka. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to counter Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar on average gets much more CS compared to Soraka. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Veigar versus Soraka build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Veigar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Soraka than with most other typical builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 51.1% when countering Soraka with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Soraka as Veigar, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Veigar vs Soraka counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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