"We want to keep the “essence” of Swain intact, even though we will be completely rebuilding..."

Very Hard Engage··2 votes·345 views

want to know who really deserved a full rebuild from the ground up?

Veigar

"his needed DFG compensation" was just a means to an end for the purpose of nuking his E out of orbit, which he desperately needed to function.

but i guess 6 patches of hard numbers buffs makes any bad kit workable i guess.

id rather see veigar be reworked before swain.

veigar, the champion whos dependent moreso on his team than anyone else. i wonder why we dont see any 1v1 veigar outplays anymore... or montages + pentakills etc.

theres rarely a situation in which you just want a veigar on your team, and his current win rate is only a result of how overloaded you had to make him from his very basic kit and playstyle back in the day. just do a raw text comparison.


this new supposed swain rework is just another means for removing his sustain and carry potential, which again is fine to make a more balanced champion on the whole, but please try to understand that veigar was severely left behind.

17 Comments

Kloqdq6 votes

uhhh veigar is fine? I am perfectly fine with a Veigar popping up on my team?

Very Hard Engage1 votes

you play him and you tell me hes fine. you have to be seriously better than your opponent to make him work at all, and then after that theres a load of unwinnable matchups just do the lack of any self protection.

Ralanr2 votes

Are we talking about just laning because I don't think he's suppose to win lane.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

were talking about i see jungler from edge of vision, i immediately start running in the opposite direction hes coming from, place my stun between me and him, and i still manage to get gap closed onto, flashed over the stun, and then killed. because thats fun and interactive.

theres nothing veigar can do in that situation which happens all too often.

that prevents all forms of aggression and it immediately shuts down the whole champion with no work around for the veigar besides also use sums.

Kloqdq2 votes

Yeah but his not meant to be winning easily early. He is a hyper scaling late game mage. The longer a game goes, the more likely it should be going in his favour. I mean Q+R often just removes someone all together once you get past 30 minutes. IT's like yi. You can't have amazing late game AND a good early.

FYI I have played him, and I have no problem playing him. He struggles early but he is fine.

CaptainSeto1 votes

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Yeah but his not meant to be winning easily early. He is a hyper scaling late game mage. The longer a game goes, the more likely it should be going in his favour. I mean Q+R often just removes someone all together once you get past 30 minutes. IT's like yi. You can't have amazing late game AND a good early.

FYI I have played him, and I have no problem playing him. He struggles early but he is fine.

Right? Like Veigar is champ who's biggest counterplay, is to end the game as fast as possible. He's just gonna stack more and more, and by time you are 30 minutes in his E going up is enough to send players into a panic to scramble away and avoid being stunned because if it lands, they are dead.

Kloqdq1 votes

He is rewarded for having a weak early. I am no idea what this guy is talking about. Like what does he want, buff his early game and have him be Cass all over again?

Critmaster Garen6 votes

veigars e is still stronger than most champions ultimates.

pls stop complaining about the little delay on it. heck, im happy whenever i see the dude on my team. even if he doesnt get fed, he still going to massively contribute with his circle of "fuck your teams positioning"

Eternal Torment2 votes

Veigar is really fine with how he is now. the only "issue" he has is that the current fast paced meta does not do him well.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

i recognize you dont want to see him, but hes entirely hit/miss based nothing around his kit or his performance. its entirely up to his team mates to dictate how the game goes.

veigar does nothing, im sorry, but thats just the way he works nowadays and it demands a rework from the ground up. he will never perform any meaningful task and he demands the enemy to make a mistake to kill themselves, veigar is simply incapable of taking something for himself.

even when you do have that 35+minute veigar, hes still a non factor when he dies instantly to flash from anyone.

in addition due to the nature of the delay he at best trades 1 for 1 while other team members captialize on the stun he offers, veigar doesn't even top the damage charts, and if he is its strictly because you have 3 hard peel tanks on your team who do deal no damage.

Eternal Torment1 votes

veigar is simply incapable of taking something for himself.

I stopped reading there because that is so wrong and simply just stupid it made my eyes bleed. YOU as a veigar cannot do jack for yourself because you do not know how to Play him and use his ranges.

any other veigar, even the most nooby first timer can actually win anything with him. Veigar is always useful, even if you cannot stun someone with his E you can still trap them where your team can AoE bomb the ever living LEROY out of them unless they waste a flash and even then you have the chance to repeat that in a few seconds.

Veigar can instant kill someone with just Q-R even in the midgame already where noone has MR stacked and you have your first 2 AP items and boots.

Veigar is one of the burstiest nastiest champions in league of legends who grows into an worse lategame beast than Nasus and GP can, but as mentioned, it is the fast paced meta that does him bad, not his kit. The games simply end too fast, veigar starts becoming a beast after 30~ish minutes, and most games are already over even before minute 25.

In addition to all that, his stun delay is really nothing Special, just aim it properly and you can still easily trap people with it. i honestly never miss a stun unless my enemy has a blink, say ezreal and zed.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

you do realize the MAJORITY of the cast has mobility?

and the ONLY way veigar kills someone with Q + R is if they have 0 health AND 0 mr.

i dont understand how you fail to realize veigar needs a team backing him to become effective and hes straight hot garbage in a 1v1.

you must be a god and can force people to run into the stun, because in my elo people actually play around it.

Eternal Torment1 votes

see this is why you have -9 downvotes with growing. Veigar can oneshot people, and his R is a point& click ult with a minimum damage scale of 75% ap. his W even has a 100% ap ratio and his Q has a 60% one aswell. one rotation is enough to destroy that 6k hp sion everyone is so scared of.

your answer has confirmed that you are just trolling the people on the board and from this point on shall not be taken serious anymore.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

let me ask bjerg and faker why they haven't touch veigar in 2 years.

let me check op gg and see that veigars win rate only decreases the higher in elo you go.

let me check mains win rates with veigar... oh wait the only person with a positive one hasn't played him since silver elo from smurfing on his climb up.

let me watch diamond+ videos of people going 1-1 on veigar or being completely set up and pampered for any passable KDA.

veigar is so widely underutilized simply because.... hes actually powerless against anything with any shred of mobility or awareness.

scarra, anniebot the two most frequent veigar players both fail on him much more than succeed and you would think that with some degree of familiarity with the champion they would at least break even, nope, they go "theres literally nothing i can do here, i cant stop inting" "whelp thats gg, third death 9minutes into the game 2 levels down"

Eternal Torment1 votes

see this is exactly why you still have -9 downvotes and the only Person downvoting anyones comments is you yourself because your biast egocentric mindset cannot let you comprehend you are wrong.

veigar has never been in a weak spot, he was never an outdated or underutilized champion. YOU are simply so incoherently bad at veigar that you rant in the boards about it because you cannot understand that he is played ap, and not tank.

Veigar is a champ that highly depends on the meta, and since lethality got it's way veigar has not been played a lot mainly because THE META doesn't suit him.

Veigar is not VIktor, he is not a metaslave, he has his ups and downs, and because you cannot understand that he is currently seeing a down, you are just gonna Keep on blastering everywhere about him being weak and bad and underpowered.

meanwhile i will sit back and enjoy all the veigars facerolling an entire teamcomposition by facerolling their keyboard, and let the wins rain down on me aswell.

while you Keep complaining about some nonexistential weakness everyone else wins on him.

as i said, you are just a troll who got the wrong board, or the wrong game. or Needs professional help, assuming all the stuff you said was 100% serious.

just because you are an egocentric douchebag does not make everything you say true and everything others say false.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

just because you dont want to see him, or other low skilled players happen to run into the stun, doesn't mean the champion is perfectly balanced.

he might be ok in lower tiers, but NOT in plat+ where people actually are capable of working around the whole champion entirely.

let me know when you play him in enough matchups to learn you simply dont have the tools to handle anything that wants or is actively trying to get you. in those situations veigar just keels over with nothing to do but die.

you can put the stun in any position between you and the enemy, run in the total opposite direction, and veigar would still lose 1v1 unless hes so far into his base 15 turret shots manage to kill whats chasing you first.

you keep saying you know how he plays out but you dont even play him or have played with a veigar. i can only conclude you dont want to see him.

countless pros refuse to play him anymore because of the fact that hes nonviable against skilled players.

i will gladly show you the math that veigar needs a gross amount of gold/exp lead to be capable of Q + R one shot on non hp/mr targets, and then he needs a disgusting 2k+ ap to do it to those who have a single hp or mr item. and hes forever out of range by himself with 2 defensive items. roa or rylais and now banshees builders stomp all over veigar.

i have never had an issue with snowballing against veigar because i know what hes looking to do and how to horribly punish him. (pro tip, shove him under his tower and give him 0 farm)

do you know why i sit at -9? because no one ever wants to see veigar in their game ever again in any capacity other than "pog champ". (and people who have never played or seen a veigar have the capacity to downvote)


do you even understand that hes prompted as a passive farmer try getting into the late game, but then his early game Q farming, his own ability, encourages him to double last hit and push the wave forwards

how contradictory that is?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksFbONGdOx4

froggen plays veigar. skip to 28mins in.

even with 260bonus ap and 5 kills hes still unable to Q + R an ezreal.

all of his kills were fed to him, he never once started the fight or scored a lucky stun. he casts his stun about 40 times over the course of a 30minute game, and he hits about 4 times. 1 to 10 payout seem good to you?

15 seconds later the ezreal literally turns around, ignores the stun entirely, and 100-0's the veigar in under 1 second, veigars full rotation takes longer than that to cast.


for the final time, veigar is incapable of doing anything on his own, and he needs to be set up by his team to be effective at all.

this current iteration of veigar is terrible and it deserves 4 new abilities.

CaptainSeto1 votes

Veigar needs a rework? Are you kidding? I mean Swain doesn't need one either really, but Veigar? He has infinite stacking for his AP, a massive stun that can hit an entire team, huge burst damage, and an ult that almost never fails after his E+W+Q combo. Vegar's not left behind, and the reason why he doesn't get montages and tons of videos done on him is because there are champs that are more fun to watch get a penta, or just happen to be more popular. Veigar is really strong, while also being balanced because he's squish and immobile, he's just not as popular as Ahri, or Syndra, or Ori.

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