Veigar vs Fiddlesticks
How to Beat Fiddlesticks as Veigar
based on 2,212 Veigar vs Fiddlesticks matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Fiddlesticks Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Fiddlesticks Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Fiddlesticks as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Fiddlesticks
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.
Veigar vs Fiddlesticks Counter Stats
How to Counter Fiddlesticks with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Veigar against Fiddlesticks counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Fiddlesticks’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Fiddlesticks..
Veigar typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Fiddlesticks. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Fiddlesticks
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Who is Better, Veigar or Fiddlesticks?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Fiddlesticks, with a 50.8% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes an ok counter for Fiddlesticks.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate compared to Fiddlesticks, when facing one another, Veigar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Fiddlesticksas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Fiddlesticks. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Fiddlesticks matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Veigar is a decent counter for Fiddlesticks. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Fiddlesticks.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar to counter Fiddlesticks during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow 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 Fiddlesticks. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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 require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Veigar versus Fiddlesticks build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Fiddlesticks than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when playing against Fiddlesticks with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Fiddlesticks as Veigar, Veigar players should use 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 runes we have analyed for Veigar vs Fiddlesticks fights, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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