Gragas vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Gragas
based on 2,029 Gragas vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Veigar
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Gragas versus Veigar matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Veigar..
Gragas usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Veigar. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Veigar
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Who is Better, Gragas or Veigar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually loses when taking on Veigar, with a 45.6% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a bad counter for Veigar.
While Gragas does have a much lower win rate compared to Veigar, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gragas into Veigar.
Furthermore, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gragas is a garbage counter for Veigar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gragas to counter Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually racks up less CS relative to Veigar. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Gragas versus Veigar build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Veigar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 45.6% when playing against Veigar with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Veigar as Gragas, Gragas players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Gragas vs Veigar clashes, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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