"Veigar kills people with no counterplay"

Curling Veigar··50 votes·6,723 views

Meanwhile two years ago...

https://i.gyazo.com/14971f74ff01d1632cb65e32a85d9837.gif

Without dfg and I did about as much damage as new veigar but with less AP because of my higher scaling ult, his Q was point and click, missed the insta stun and w but still kills omg hes so op

(not saying he isn't good right now and he definitely warrants a nerf but veigar two years ago was just plain silly but no one realized it)

EDIT: think that's all I've got? lol (for some reason the GIF won't load here... so I included a mp4 version)

http://i.gyazo.com/7d651c149ebc87fd660bc4d87fcf8deb.mp4

http://i.gyazo.com/7d651c149ebc87fd660bc4d87fcf8deb.gif

136 Comments

Anhu39 votes

It would be nice if this game had something that could counter him. Man... if only. summoner 1 Xerath Irelia TahmKench Zilean Fizz Alistar Gangplank Fiora Yasuo Sion Poppy Galio Morgana Nocturne Sivir summoner 3 item 3102 item 3140 item 3157 item 3155 item 3111

It Hertz When IP1 votes

pick order OP.

My Waifu Vanilla2 votes

It is sad that you technically have to blind pick ad mids now since only a handful of mages do okay against him

For Carthage2 votes

Syndra Lux Brand Velkoz Xerath Chogath

Yeah, handful sounds about right, actually... pity that half of these mages aren't even considered meta picks.

CasterGilgamesh3 votes

You forgot every assassin

Saminus Maximus2 votes

Man you cant beat him mid lane because his ult scales with your ap and if he cages you cant get near him Zed Talon Yasuo

Dehorn28 votes

i should never have to alter my picks/playstyle to counter someone. i should be able to do the same thing every game and get challenger! - item 3070 soakedcommunity

CoolKnightST1 votes

This is why you will never be challenger. Pick&Ban phase is where you can win or lose games.

Voluug138 votes

People will downvote you because Rito has fed this community a white lie for years.

''Champion select should not determinate games!''

Proceeds to create champions even more dependant of Champion Select.

The game at its core is extremely dependant of Champion Select. And the very nature of the newer, flashier champions makes half, or more, of the roster useless.

Voluug132 votes

The rooster goes where he pleases.

JFC your joke was good

lakeyja9008 votes

KFC your joke was good

^Fixed^

Iceoh5 votes

{quoted} "determinate games!''

Quoting literally just for this line.

Stephenizgod3 votes

"What is this blasphemy? I need to do something different depending on the champion I'm playing and who i am facing? Ludicrous!"

-League Community, 2015

C9 Scott Free 2 votes

Did you really put Fizz on this list? And merc treads actually dont get you out of box anymore.

A Tall Joke2 votes

Fizz can E out of his stun, regardless of whether or not it was already down.

Fizz can burst Veigar, ignoring his W as well. Veigar only has a chacne late game.

C9 Scott Free 1 votes

But what Veigar is going to get close enough to let a Fizz just do that honestly? All the ones I have seen have been max ranging farming essentially so that approach doesn't really work.

Voluug133 votes

Then Fizz gets to roam and win the game while Veigar is still farming.

There are no double dipping: either Veigar farms or he plays offensive. The thing is people refuse to change playstyle, build or punish Veigar on his glaring weaknesses.

C9 Scott Free 1 votes

I assume you are higher emo than me but I guess the MIA ping doesn't work no matter how high you go. As in they don't listen

Voluug132 votes

I am not emo ಠ_ಠ

Then you follow him. Even if you cant win the TF, you being there makes the enemy team more cautious that if you werent, andif they still engage, you have more chanced of evening things out or even come out winning.

Aslong as you have good vision and decent waveclear you can choose your fights very easily.

Sand Clone3 votes

only eight of these things counter Veigar

Very Hard Engage18 votes

and here we see the caitlyn pushing far up in a presumed losing game with no vision in the jungle, and roaming alone, brilliant.

10/10 would do again.

(no banshees or GA either, great build!)

Curling Veigar3 votes

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and here we see the caitlyn pushing far up in a presumed losing game with no vision in the jungle, and roaming alone, brilliant.

10/10 would do again.

(no banshees or GA either, great build!)

yeah but, what exactly would have changed if veigar was like how he is now in this vid?

Very Hard Engage4 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sadistic Veigar,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=uAFjEGNY,comment-id=00010000,timestamp=2015-10-26T10:21:53.035+0000)

yeah but, what exactly would have changed if veigar was like how he is now in this vid?

cait would ult veigar on sight, chunk him to half health, and then cait would have prep'd her passive from all those minions, and then finish off veigar with a single 1200+ headshot crit.

thats what would actually happen and why both are high threats to eachother. veigar should've been dependent on landing his stun in that situation.

Curling Veigar7 votes

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cait would ult veigar on sight, chunk him to half health, and then cait would have prep'd her passive from all those minions, and then finish off veigar with a single 1200+ headshot crit.

thats what would actually happen and why both are high threats to eachother. veigar should've been dependent on landing his stun in that situation.

I know, but people complain because Veigar kills them with no counterplay. He has a delayed stun and a skillshot Q, my point here is that Veigar (while strong as shit) is still a weaker version of his old self.

Very Hard Engage11 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sadistic Veigar,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=uAFjEGNY,comment-id=0001000000000000,timestamp=2015-10-26T10:30:28.840+0000)

I know, but people complain because Veigar kills them with no counterplay. He has a delayed stun and a skillshot Q, my point here is that Veigar (while strong as shit) is still a weaker version of his old self.

the people's problem, that they refuse to dive him or counterbuild at all. they dont realize hes low mobility, low hp, and his only defense is flash, and just reaching him means you've won, thats all you have to do.

they're too scared to organize a flash forward or pick someone with a strong initiation tool like elise/lee sin/khazix, and literally pick on veigar, and they certainly cant pick a poke champion like xerath and 2 Q's and veigar would be dead. or jayce even who could take the burst, and then pummel him.

veigar has tons of counterplay, counterbuilds, and mechanisms with which to keep him down, people complain about the rare and few late game veigars who dominates the late game, who has a ton of AP farm. and used to be able to land the sliver consistently with tons of practice and veigar games on their belt and "thats broken".

but its ok, we both know veigar still isn't squishy full damage build.

"what would olaf or tryndamere do to a veigar"

what does hecarim do to him? runs from edge of stun to edge of stun and puts his big hoof on his face. what does rammus do? take the full burst, laughs because it was nothing to him, and then taunts him for a free solo kill, or a team mate can come in and last hit the little minion.

but the real complainers are the ADC's and mid laners who dont understand how to deal with veigar properly and the tools at their disposal to manage him.

Diananmen Square2 votes

People thinking QSS is only for ADCs ever.

yukumari28 votes

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cait would ult veigar on sight, chunk him to half health, and then cait would have prep'd her passive from all those minions, and then finish off veigar with a single 1200+ headshot crit.

thats what would actually happen and why both are high threats to eachother. veigar should've been dependent on landing his stun in that situation.

There's always that one guy that thinks he knows how to win every trade and every situation ever, Jesus christ.

tplegs07084 votes

the distance that veig showed was actually less distance then AA's means the prep time for her R would do less then if she had late game just regular AA's....WTF was this guy thinking ^^^^^

Very Hard Engage6 votes

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the distance that veig showed was actually less distance then AA's means the prep time for her R would do less then if she had late game just regular AA's....WTF was this guy thinking ^^^^^

still loving people's willingness to defend this caitlyn even tho shes totally caught out of position and alone. with no vision of anything. who isn't going to punish an adc for that. that cait deserves to die in that situation.

Desiderium3 votes

It's not a matter of whether or not she deserved to die. We all know she was out of position.

The problem is that Veigar missed two out of his four fucking spells and still killed her.

He barely even needed the third one.

The issue is not Caitlyn, but Veigar.

And he is STILL broken. Dodging the stun won't save you from a point and click 1.5k damage Veigar ult.

He needs a rework, or some really fancy balance work done on his ult, because the way it is now, it fucks his entire kit.

CasterGilgamesh3 votes

You realize Veigar is a burst Mage right?

Killstrado5 votes

They don't just like they don't realize he's two AA away from death at anytime because of how squishy he is

Very Hard Engage3 votes

[{quoted}](name=Tomb of Insomnia,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=uAFjEGNY,comment-id=0001000000000001000000000000,timestamp=2015-10-26T14:03:18.247+0000)

It's not a matter of whether or not she deserved to die. We all know she was out of position.

The problem is that Veigar missed two out of his four fucking spells and still killed her.

He barely even needed the third one.

The issue is not Caitlyn, but Veigar.

And he is STILL broken. Dodging the stun won't save you from a point and click 1.5k damage Veigar ult.

He needs a rework, or some really fancy balance work done on his ult, because the way it is now, it fucks his entire kit.

lots of champions can kill that cait at level 12 (1312hp) with just their R and Q. Chogath Fiddlesticks Katarina Rumble Swain Velkoz Xerath Brand Malzahar and im excluding the AD champions because they need to auto. but its not just veigar who could deal 1312damage with "just 2 abilities. "

now if you want to argue "fair" just remember that veigar was fed and ahead and most likely had free farm, its not normal for veigar to do that.

Quort2 votes

You can dodge Cho Gath's Q and kite away from his R. Fiddlesticks R can be interrupted and to deal considerable damage he must remain next to his target. Katarina must channel her R for 2.5 seconds to get the full damage. Rumble's Q and R are both DoTs and the enemy can move away. Swain's Q and R are both DoTs and the enemy can move away. Vel'Koz must channel his R for 2.5 seconds to get the full damage and his Q is a skillshot. Kerath must land all three of his R charges (while immobilizing himself) as well as his charged Q. Brand's Q and R aren't going to two shot anyone and his Q is a skillshot. Malzahar's R can be interrupted and his Q can be dodged; he won't kill anyone without his Voidlings, E, or W either.

Veigar walks up. Clicks on your Champion. Easily deals over a thousand damage. It's not uncounterable, but it is far more difficult to deal with than any of the Champions you listed.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

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You can dodge Cho Gath's Q and kite away from his R. Fiddlesticks R can be interrupted and to deal considerable damage he must remain next to his target. Katarina must channel her R for 2.5 seconds to get the full damage. Rumble's Q and R are both DoTs and the enemy can move away. Swain's Q and R are both DoTs and the enemy can move away. Vel'Koz must channel his R for 2.5 seconds to get the full damage and his Q is a skillshot. Kerath must land all three of his R charges (while immobilizing himself) as well as his charged Q. Brand's Q and R aren't going to two shot anyone and his Q is a skillshot. Malzahar's R can be interrupted and his Q can be dodged; he won't kill anyone without his Voidlings, E, or W either.

Veigar walks up. Clicks on your Champion. Easily deals over a thousand damage. It's not uncounterable, but it is far more difficult to deal with than any of the Champions you listed.

"veigar walks up to you freely and just presses R and Q on you" OK. sure, ya huh, whatever you say.

Quort2 votes

Yep. That's exactly what happens. Especially while youre scrambling around trying to not get hit by his two other damaging abilities and his massive stun cage. If Veigar even gets in range to use his ultimate, the target is almost guaranteed to be dead.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

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Yep. That's exactly what happens. Especially while youre scrambling around trying to not get hit by his two other damaging abilities and his massive stun cage. If Veigar even gets in range to use his ultimate, the target is almost guaranteed to be dead.

which is a trade, because veigar shortly dies afterwards without contributing anything else. veigar used to go 1-1, sometimes 2-1, and then die, he rarely snowballed, he was great at picking people out, but after that you would want a solid 4v4 or 3v3 fighting squad because you cant count on veigar for anything other than remove 1 person, and hopefully stun as many people as possible.

you would then chase the veigar, not bother with the other champions right in front of your face, oh no, you would then try to kill veigar after he already blew is whole stack and is incapable of contributing anything for ~10seconds again. (still no ult, just another stun and W).

but instead of preventing/not allowing him to intiate, and pokeing him, or diving him, you let him stun you first, MISTAKE, MISTAKE MISTAKE.

instead of trying to win the 4v4, you misplay, make poor decisions, and try and gap close an impossible distance to get to the veigar meanwhile their team is on your face, when in reality if you properly manage veigar, or ever catch the veigar you make it a 5v4 in your favor because of how ridiculously easy it is to get him.

Quort1 votes

You make it seem like Veigar isn't a threat outside of his ultimate ability and that his simply not true. His W deals massive damage and even if Veigar doesn't stun you the zoning power it gives him is immense. Your solution is to just poke Veigar but that's not always an option. Sure, if you're Xerath, Ziggs, or Vel'Koz it might be easier but he can still dodge whatever you throw at him and there's always the possibility his team comp will make up for his weaknesses.

Veigar's not as easy to kill as you say. It's a death sentence to get anywhere near him. Even while one of your arguments is "hurr durr, just build magic resist," you forget that Veigar isn't incapable of building his own defensive items. If you try to dive him he can rely on Zhonya's to pull him out of danger for long enough for his team to retaliate. Banshee's Veil makes it harder to pick him off. Guardian Angel will save him from even the most dedicated divers.

And nobody is "letting" Veigar stun them. Even Horizon is often used as a follow up to potent engage making it near impossible to escape his team (if you don't have an instant movement spell you're trapped). His range increase on Baleful Strike and Event Horizon as well as the increased reliability on Dark Matter make him far more capable than ever before.

Quort1 votes

What are talking about? ._.

You didn't respond to anything I just said...

Penns9 votes

no banshees or GA either, great build!

Level 12 Cait, probably underfed, most likely didnt even have 2 items yet, if she even finished IE. This is what I hate about those people saying "oh, just get Banshees and Annie/ Veigar/ whatever is easily countered". You cant rush a Banshees first or second item just because theres a Veigar in your game lol.

Very Hard Engage3 votes

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Level 12 Cait, probably underfed, most likely didnt even have 2 items yet, if she even finished IE. This is what I hate about those people saying "oh, just get Banshees and Annie/ Veigar/ whatever is easily countered". You cant rush a Banshees first or second item just because theres a Veigar in your game lol.

yeah, and any other fed mid laner with whatever items wouldn't also 100-0 that cait in a 1v1. nope, just veigar, the only one in the game who could do that without DFG even. (newsflash, anyone would've done that the same, the only difference being which abilities get used) ((hell, most other mid laners wouldn't even need their ult in that situation to kill such a low level/underfed caitlyn, and i question how much gold that veigar got from that cait))

YumaS2Astral2 votes

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Level 12 Cait, probably underfed, most likely didnt even have 2 items yet, if she even finished IE. This is what I hate about those people saying "oh, just get Banshees and Annie/ Veigar/ whatever is easily countered". You cant rush a Banshees first or second item just because theres a Veigar in your game lol.

Two years ago you wouldn't rush Infinity Edge as an ADC. You would rush The Bloodthisther.

RisenDarkKnight6 votes

I'm sorry but the no banshee's or GA comment is ridiculous with no context. This could easily be at 20 mins when she only has enough gold for Infinity edge and a zeal. Saying you can counterbuild is great, but not all games last to 6 items and her support would probably have afked if she built banhees first item because there was a veigar on the enemy team. Caitlin was lvl 12 in the clip, how many times have you got a banshees or GA at lvl 12 when you play adc?

Anhu11 votes

Veigar is in meta again? Hmm... If only we had some kind of hero that could absorb magic damage with a shield that heals himself and gets AP that scales from magic resist. C'mon Rito, we need this. item 3070 item 3070

AzureInTheDark3 votes

Galio

Cipse2 votes

Who's this guy? Is he an adc?

(on a serious note, I need this champ)

Stephenizgod2 votes

Yorick ?

no no no not him hmm who is that other forgotten champ... hmm if only they werent all one big blur... wait what was the question again? Why isnt he Yasuo? yea idk man Yasuo is so meta dude

Reynard the ƒox7 votes

ya why cant darius do that

Sadistic Veigar4 votes

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ya why cant darius do that

i agree buff darius man

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