Veigar vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Veigar
based on 2,019 Veigar vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Veigar vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several important Veigar against Sivir counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sivir’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sivir..
Veigar typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Sivir. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Sivir
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Who is Better, Veigar or Sivir?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually loses when taking on Sivir, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Veigar makes a bad counter for Sivir.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate compared to Sivir, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Veigar into Siviras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Veigar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sivir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Sivir matchups, Sivir is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Veigar is a terribly counter for Sivir. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Veigar to counter Sivir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Sivir. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Sivir build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Sivir than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 47.5% when playing against Sivir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Sivir 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 we have analyed for Veigar vs Sivir fights, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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