Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
The stat comparisons provided here show some important Darius vs. Veigar counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Veigar..
Darius often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Veigar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Darius usually fairs equally well when facing off against Veigar, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Darius makes an ok counter to Veigar.
While Darius does have a lower winrate than Veigar, when facing one another, Darius also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Darius into Veigar.
Additionally, Darius has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Veigar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Darius vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Darius is a somewhat poor counter to Veigar. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Darius against Veigar.
To truly master Darius in order to counter Veigar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Veigar. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Darius versus Veigar build include Trinity Force, Sterak's Gage, and Death's Dance. When Darius used at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Veigar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Darius had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Veigar as Darius, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Darius vs Veigar fights, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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