Veigar vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Veigar
based on 1,977 Veigar vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Veigar vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Veigar vs. Azir matchup stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Azir..
Veigar typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Azir. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Azir
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Who is Better, Veigar or Azir?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when playing against Azir, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes an ok counter to Azir.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate compared to Azir, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Aziras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter for Azir. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to counter Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Azir. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Azir build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Veigar included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Azir than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average win rate of 49.5% battling Azir with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Azir as Veigar, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Veigar vs Azir battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Azir as Veigar are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.