Zed vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Zed
based on 4,687 Zed vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Veigar
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Win Against Veigar
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
Zed vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Zed against Veigar matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Veigar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Veigar..
Zed often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Veigar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Veigar
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Who is Better, Zed or Veigar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when taking on Veigar, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Zed makes an ok counter to Veigar.
While Zed does have a higher win rate than Veigar, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Veigaras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Veigar matchups, Zed is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zed is a decent counter for Veigar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zed against Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to counter Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Veigar. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zed versus Veigar build include Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Veigar than with most other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 50.1% battling Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Veigar as Zed, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Zed vs Veigar battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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