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.
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
The Veigar Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Veigar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Veigar perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Veigar tries to synergize with Bard, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Bard helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Bard on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Veigar in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Veigar that will always be his #1 ally. However, Bard is a great ally for Veigar. By being on the same team as Veigar, he improves their win rate by 3.6% to 52.9%. This shows that there is a strong synergy between Veigar and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Veigar. That means Veigar players need to be very careful when lining up Bard teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Veigar and Bard together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to synergize with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Veigar and Bard synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar used at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 52.9% when playing alongside Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Veigar players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Veigar and Bard pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
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