Sivir vs Veigar Counter Pick

Two champions on opposite scaling curves meet here, and the 54.6% Sivir posts over 308 recorded games on patch 16.13.1 says the early half of the game weighs more. Veigar opens with 18 armor, 52 attack damage and 580 health, the softest possible target for 60 base attack damage delivered from 500 range with Ricochet bouncing between whatever else is nearby.

Phenomenal Evil Power changes that if he is left alone. It stacks permanently on champion hits and kills, Baleful Strike converts last hits into ability power, and Primordial Burst swells with whatever health the target has already lost, so a Sivir on 2,368 maximum health late is not out of reach once she has been chipped.

The mechanical exchange is simpler than the scaling story. Every Veigar spell is a single discrete cast, and Spell Shield deletes one of them while handing Sivir health and a speed boost, most valuably Event Horizon, whose stun on the cage edge is what allows Dark Matter to land at all. Blocking it leaves him casting a delayed meteor at a target that is already moving, with Fleet of Foot adding speed on every champion attack; his 340 base movement barely matters when he has to stand still to aim. His difficulty rating of 7 against Sivir’s 4 reflects how much of his output depends on that one setup, and both champions are limited by mana. Kits: Sivir and Veigar.