Veigar vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Veigar
based on 5,252 Veigar vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Veigar vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some influential Veigar against Varus matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Varus..
Veigar usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Varus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Varus
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Who is Better, Veigar or Varus?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually wins when taking on Varus, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a good counter for Varus.
While Veigar does have a higher winrate than Varus, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Varusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Varus 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 team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter to Varus. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Varus.
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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 Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Varus. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Veigar versus Varus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cryptbloom, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Varus than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Varus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Varus 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 we have analyed for Veigar vs Varus battles, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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