Talk:Veigar/@comment-4167645-20150917063327/@comment-5911895-20150918005817

Well, if you consider KogMaw a mage (as he's been played recently) I'd certainly put him on the list. Viktor has some degree of answer but it's not instant either (a thin shield and speed boost on Q helps, but his only real cc/anti-assassin spell has a 1.5s arm time). Annie has an answer but it requires her passive to be up (or within 1-2 spells of being up), but if you're an assassin engaging on an Annie with her passive or all spells up you're doing it wrong. Malz is dependent on his ult being off cooldown to handle assassins (Q helps but can be hard to hit), but the same can be said for Cassiopeia. Not having an easy answer to assassins is part of Veigar's problem, sure, but the same problem affects quite a few other mages who have had no problem being popular.