Veigar vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Veigar
based on 7,930 Veigar vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Nocturne
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 Nocturne
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
Veigar vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some valuable Veigar versus Nocturne counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nocturne..
Veigar usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nocturne. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Veigar or Nocturne?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually loses when playing against Nocturne, with a 46.2% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a bad counter for Nocturne.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate than Nocturne, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Veigar into Nocturneas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Veigar is a trash counter for Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Nocturne.
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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 Nocturne 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 mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar most often picks up much more CS compared to Nocturne. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Veigar versus Nocturne build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cryptbloom, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Nocturne than with many other common item sets. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 46.2% battling Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Nocturne as Veigar, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Transcendence, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Veigar vs Nocturne counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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