Veigar vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Veigar
based on 6,505 Veigar vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Veigar vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several strategic Veigar versus Hwei matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Hwei’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Hwei..
Veigar usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Hwei. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Hwei
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Who is Better, Veigar or Hwei?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually wins when playing against Hwei, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a good counter for Hwei.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate than Hwei, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Veigar into Hweias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hwei. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Hwei matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Veigar is a good counter to Hwei. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Hwei during both the lane 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 shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Hwei. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Veigar versus Hwei build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Hwei than with many other typical builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 52.5% when countering Hwei with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Hwei as Veigar, Veigar players 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 runes players picked for Veigar vs Hwei counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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