Veigar vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Veigar
based on 2,011 Veigar vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Alistar
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 Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Veigar vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Veigar in LoL
The stats provided here show some strategic Veigar against Alistar counter stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Veigar usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Alistar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Alistar
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Who is Better, Veigar or Alistar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually wins when taking on Alistar, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a good counter to Alistar.
While Veigar does have a higher winrate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Veigar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Alistaras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Veigar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Alistar matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar most often accumulates much more CS as Alistar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Veigar versus Alistar build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 51.4% battling Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Alistar as Veigar, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Veigar vs Alistar counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.4% winrate overall.
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