Veigar vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Veigar
based on 4,333 Veigar vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Veigar vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some influential Veigar versus Sylas matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sylas..
Veigar normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Sylas. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Sylas
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Who is Better, Veigar or Sylas?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually wins when taking on Sylas, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Veigar makes a good counter to Sylas.
While Veigar does have a higher winrate compared to Sylas, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Sylasas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Veigar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sylas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Sylas matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter to Sylas. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Veigar in order to counter Sylas during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Sylas. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Sylas build include Void Staff, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Sylas than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 51.3% when playing against Sylas with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Sylas as Veigar, Veigar players should use 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 rune builds players chose for Veigar vs Sylas fights, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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