Veigar vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Veigar
based on 4,687 Veigar vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Veigar vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Veigar in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential Veigar vs. Zed matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champs. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Veigar often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Zed. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Zed
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Who is Better, Veigar or Zed?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when playing against Zed, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Veigar makes an ok counter to Zed.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate than Zed, when facing one another, Veigar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Zedas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash 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 Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Zed matchups, Zed is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter for Zed. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar in order to counter Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Zed. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Veigar versus Zed build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Veigar bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Zed than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 49.9% battling Zed with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Zed 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 rune combinations players used for Veigar vs Zed battles, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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