Veigar vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Veigar
based on 2,237 Veigar vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Ziggs
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 Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Veigar vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some strategic Veigar versus Ziggs matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ziggs..
Veigar usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ziggs. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Veigar or Ziggs?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes an ok counter to Ziggs.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate than Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Ziggsas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Ziggs matchups, Ziggs is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter to Ziggs. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Ziggs.
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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 Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Ziggs. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Ziggs build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Ziggs than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average win rate of 49.5% battling Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Ziggs as Veigar, Veigar players should equip 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 Ziggs counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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