Veigar vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Veigar
based on 5,650 Veigar vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Zyra
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 Zyra
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
Veigar vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Veigar in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Veigar vs. Zyra counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Veigar typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Zyra
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Who is Better, Veigar or Zyra?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 46.1% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a poor counter to Zyra.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate compared to Zyra, when facing one another, Veigar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Veigar into Zyraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. 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 a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Veigar is a terribly counter to Zyra. Focus your strategy on keeping up 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 Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Zyra during both the lane 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 listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar most often accumulates more CS compared to Zyra. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Veigar versus Zyra build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Veigar bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Zyra than with many other typical builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 46.1% battling Zyra with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Zyra 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 sets players used for Veigar vs Zyra clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.1% winrate overall.
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