Veigar vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Veigar
based on 4,731 Veigar vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Veigar vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several strategic Veigar vs. Thresh counter stats that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Thresh. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Veigar usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Thresh. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Thresh
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Who is Better, Veigar or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Veigar usually wins when facing off against Thresh, with a 52.0% win rate. Therefore, Veigar makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate compared to Thresh, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Threshas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Thresh matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter for Thresh. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar to counter Thresh 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 tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar most often gets much more CS relative to Thresh. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Veigar versus Thresh build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Veigar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Thresh than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average win rate of 52.0% battling Thresh with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Thresh 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. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Veigar vs Thresh counters, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.0% win rate overall.
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