Draven vs Veigar Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
Draven is a marksman, Veigar a mage, and they meet in the ADC lane. 312 tracked games on 16.13.1 put Draven at a 41.4% win rate into Veigar. That is 8.6 points under even, which is why Veigar is listed among the champions Draven struggles into.
With both sitting in ranged range (550 against 550), neither side gets a free poke pattern.
Mismatched profiles here: physical on Draven’s side, magic on Veigar’s. The stat sheet reads 675 HP and 29 armour for Draven against 580 and 18 for Veigar. Draven starts 11 armour ahead, which is felt before either buys anything. Late-game bases read 2443 health / 106 armour for Draven and 2416 / 106 for Veigar. Base attack damage is 62 against 52, so Draven wins the raw auto-attack exchange. Draven walks at 330 and Veigar at 340, so Veigar dodges skillshots a fraction easier.
Draven looks for Stand Aside (E); Veigar answers with Baleful Strike (Q). Whirling Death and Primordial Burst are the two buttons that end the exchange outright.
Data here updates on its own rather than sitting as a fixed snapshot taken on 16.13.1.
FAQ
No — current data marks this as a counter matchup: Veigar has the statistical edge. Draven wins 41.4% of the recorded games.
41.4% from Draven's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
312 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Draven build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Draven build page.