Veigar vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Veigar
based on 6,125 Veigar vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Pantheon
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 Pantheon
Pantheon's Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable from the front. Get behind him or wait it out.
Grand Starfall gives several seconds of warning before Pantheon arrives. Use this time to get out of the way or to form a plan to deal with him.
Be careful near Pantheon if your health is low - a thrown Comet Spear executes low health enemies.
Veigar vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Veigar in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several valuable Veigar against Pantheon counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Pantheon..
Veigar typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Pantheon. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Veigar or Pantheon?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when taking on Pantheon, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes an ok counter for Pantheon.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate compared to Pantheon, when facing one another, Veigar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Pantheonas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Pantheon matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter to Pantheon. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to counter Pantheon during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar on average gets more CS relative to Pantheon. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Pantheon build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Pantheon than with many other common builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 50.7% when countering Pantheon with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Pantheon as Veigar, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Veigar vs Pantheon fights, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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