Talk:Veigar/@comment-184.153.2.124-20110523014429

How difficult do you guys think Veigar is to play compared to other champions? I main him and do pretty well, but I've had someone tell me that Veigar is easy to play, and that "all you have to do is stack ap". I didn't really feel like arguing with him, but... is he?

I mean, he can do some insane nuking mid/late game, but you have to actually work to get that much power. You have to continually farm AP throughout the whole match in order to be able to consistently kill with your combo, and early/mid game he lacks the damage potential of other AP champions. Plus, he has 2 skillshots, which is more than most casters have.

Also, while he can eventually dish out a lot of damage, he's extremely squishy from the start, and early game his spells don't have nearly as much WTFBOOM potential. There's also not much room for survivability items in his build (at least early/mid game), so he's got to spend a good chunk of each match trying to last hit as many minions as possible with poor damage to enemy champs and almost no survivability besides a 20 second CD, dodge-able stun.

A Veigar that gets off to a slow start will be struggling to keep up with even slightly fed champions, and a slightly misplaced Event Horizon (or one that's on cooldown) will net the other team an easy kill. Too many deaths, which can come quite easily to early-game Veigar, means no AP, no money for items, and no insane late game nukes. Personally, I'd say he's fairly balanced because he's so squishy and can be countered by a good team, but my view might be a bit biased since I main him. And he CAN dish out some pretty massive damage late game... do you guys think he's easy to play/overpowered?