Veigar vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Veigar
based on 1,480 Veigar vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Veigar vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Veigar in LoL
The stats provided here feature some important Veigar versus Zilean counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Veigar typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Zilean
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Who is Better, Veigar or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when playing against Zilean, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes an ok counter to Zilean.
While Veigar does have a higher winrate than Zilean, when facing one another, Veigar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Zileanas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a similar 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 Zilean. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically picks up more CS as Zilean. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Veigar versus Zilean build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Veigar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Zilean than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Zilean with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Zilean 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. Of all the runes players picked for Veigar vs Zilean counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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