Bard vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Bard
based on 3,186 Bard vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Veigar Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Veigar
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Win Against Veigar
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
Bard vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several critical Bard against Veigar matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Veigar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Veigar. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Veigar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Bard or Veigar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Veigar, with a 53.8% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a great counter to Veigar.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Veigar, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Veigaras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Veigar. 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Veigar matchups, Bard is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Bard is a great counter for Veigar. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Bard in order to counter Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average racks up a lot less CS compared to Veigar. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Bard versus Veigar build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Veigar than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 53.8% battling Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Veigar as Bard, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Bard vs Veigar face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.8% win rate overall.
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