Veigar vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Veigar
based on 4,031 Veigar vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Veigar vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several critical Veigar versus Kayle matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between this set of champions. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kayle..
Veigar often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kayle. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Kayle
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Who is Better, Veigar or Kayle?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Veigar usually loses when trying to fight Kayle, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes a poor counter for Kayle.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate than Kayle, when facing one another, Veigar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Kayleas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayle. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter for Kayle. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Kayle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kayle. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Kayle build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Veigar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Kayle than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 48.7% battling Kayle with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Kayle 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 runes we have analyed for Veigar vs Kayle battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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