Thresh vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Thresh
based on 4,731 Thresh vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Veigar
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several vital Thresh versus Veigar matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Veigar. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Veigar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Veigar
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Who is Better, Thresh or Veigar?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Veigar, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a poor counter for Veigar.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate than Veigar, when facing one another, Thresh also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Thresh into Veigaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Veigar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Thresh is a bad counter to Veigar. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Veigar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Veigar. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Thresh versus Veigar build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Solstice Sleigh, and Force of Nature. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Veigar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Veigar as Thresh, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Thresh vs Veigar battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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