Veigar vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Veigar
based on 5,071 Veigar vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Veigar vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several strategic Veigar against Graves counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Veigar usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Graves. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Graves
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Who is Better, Veigar or Graves?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually loses when facing off against Graves, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a poor counter for Graves.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate than Graves, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Gravesas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter for Graves. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, 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 Graves. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Graves build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Graves than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Graves with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Graves as Veigar, you should equip 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 builds players chose for Veigar vs Graves counters, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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