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Spellbook Veigar | +versatility | WIP!

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Runes: main Sorcery

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Inspiration

Unsealed Spellbook

Perfect Timing

Biscuit Delivery

Cosmic Insight

Sorcery

Manaflow Band

Gathering Storm

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

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Teleport

Flash

Teleport

Items

Starting Items

Early Items

Core

Other Items

Ability Order Safe

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Veigar Passive Ability

Champion Build Guide

Hey, it's me!

Heyo,

I'm Sq_09 and im a casual LoL player.

Ok soo ... noramally I do fun/troll builds and stuff, but I recently tried this and thought I should make an actual guide to this because it is really fun imo. So I did it ... duh. This is also gonna be a different guide, since I'm not gonna go over how to play veigar, but rather over the differences to other veigar builds. With that said ... Spellbook Veigar

WIP!

There is more to come. Just wanted to get this guide out ASAP, since I was sick the 2 days after I announced doing it.

Chapters Coming:
- Rune-Choices
- How to stack
- Matchups (maybe)
- conclusion or sth
- prolly more ...

Why Spellbook?

What does Spellbook do for Veigar?

The keystone grants it's user more versatility and utility at the cost of other keystones' extra damage. You can situationally swap summoner spells depending o nthe situation which can be very strong. You are however forced to take all three inspiration slots as runes, which can be an up- or downside depending on your view. The focus grants more or less situational utility, which can be very strong. It does however lack the flat stats, sustain and damage, which can significantly weaken some champions.

is a champion with very high damage and oneshot potential. His provides him with annoying CC and let's him hit his high damage combos. He's all about damage. So why give up on that damage to gain more utility? Well truth is: doesn't need the extra damage from keystones like or . These runes just make either his poke or his early combo-damage more oppressive and don't help with his later damage too much. His main source of Ap-stats is his passive. is able to gain very high amounts of AP just through his passive alone. He really doesn't need the extra -damage later in the game and he can still survive early and be effective without it.

also adds a lot of concistency to your stacks and cs, since you have acces to an early , without actually choosing it in champ-select. Spellbook can really help against harder matchups, since you can have multiple defensive summoners in a game without giving up . With this build you choose your summoners depending on earlygame, since you are gonna have other summoners available way more frequently.

When should you pick Spellbook veigar over the other options?

Problems poking:

If the enemy laner can easily punish you for an attempt to poke, you can play this more farm heavy build to compensate for not being able to poke well. If they can straight up bully you out of lane even if you're not trying to go for pokes, then you should consider a damage-rune (like ) so you can give up on some early stacks while maintaining damage.

Versatility needed:

If your team lacks waveclear, peel, a or more, this is the perfect opportunity to pick as your main keystone, since you provide just that. Your insane versatility grants you better map-control, peel and self-peel, objective control, the list goes on. The longer the game, the more frequently your spellbook will be up. In lategame you have a cooldown of 120 seconds (assuming it's fully reduced) on your spellbook, which means, that you can choose your summoners very frequently and adapt to certain situations/fights better.

Learning Spellbook and fun:

My first champion and overall experience with was and I really enjoyed it (and still do). Playing with spellbook has also taught me more about the game, for example the importance of summoners and how to use them correctly. Using Spellbook also requires you to think about your role in the team as well as your strengths and weaknesses and how to adapt to situations. It really improved my gameplay and I actually learned a lot.
Also Spellbook is just really fun to play. I mean ... which rune lets you steal drake as a midlaner or coordinate a 2000 damage smite?

How/When to use summoners (and which to actually choose)

You really don't want as a Spellbook-option, since you need it way earlier and more frequently than you would get it from . You always want selected in champ select, especially with spellbook, since you don't really miss out on other summoners, if you were to not choose it.

Picking can help with annoying matchups and makes your farming and passive-stacking way more consistent. (Main summonner for this build imo.) It doesn't take away much utility, since you can still situationally swap summoners at minute 6, and provides you with a more consistent earlygame and more versatility later. Swapping it if you don't have it can also be the deciding factor in many situations. (So what I wanna say is that TP is strong as fork and you should always consider it)

is a very agressive summoner. It's best used to secure early kills, or shut down fed lifesteal champions. These are also the reasons to choose/swap ignite in a game. If you are confident in your (or your jungler's) ability to get an early kill, you can pick ignite, since it uppers your kill pressure. If you are going into a 3v1 with a 5/0 , I would recommend swapping ignite (if you didn't select it) to reduce his healing and make him killable in the first place.

If the enemy laner has high kill pressure in lane (e.g. ), you might wanna choose over an agressive , since having barrier up takes away a lot of their kill pressure all by itself. It can also save you from wasting your . You can swap it if you are lower on health, but wanna stay, or if you are at a high risk of getting dove in teamfights.

If you verse someone with very dangerous hard-cc (e.g. , ), you mignt want to choose since it can really save you from a lot of damage (or just immediate death lol). Getting caught by something like is really scary. If you are expecting to get hit by something like this. Or if you have shown to easily be picked up in teamfights by being CCed, swap preemtively to save your ***.

You can select , if they have very annoying and snowbally assassins (like for example or ). It helps negate burst, but also finishing off enemies with the slow. You can swap this in if you are expecting a fight or forcing a 2v1 (for example) by roaming. You can also swap this to peel for your adc in later teamfights.

If you are expecting early ganks and counterganks, you have the option to select . It can help vs towerdives and you are almost always gonna win counterganks. You can swap it in to also gain the same benefits. If you are expecting a 2v2 in midlane prepare by swapping a summoner like for example . You can also swap it to peel or help a low-health ally survive in a fight or siege. It is actually a fairly decent spell on -mid by itself.

You don't wanna select , since it's just not a summoner for laners. For upcoming objective-fights you can very well pick this up. Having an additional allows your jungler to play more agressively and risk dying or to use a smite in combat. It can also negate a potential level-disadvantage.

sadly can't really utilize as well as other champions can. You don't really wanna choose it in champ select, since it just doesn't do enough for you. You can swap in in the early- to midgame, if you want to roam but your sidelane lacks burst or cc, so you need to chase, or if you need to kite away from a fed and dodge his ********.

is a very weird case. You can't choose it in champ-select, because it's only available on howling abyss, but you can choose it with spellbook, in which case it is almost always useless. Unless your team is very mana-heavy and you need to stay to siege or for an upcoming objective, you don't want to use this spell.

Itemization

Starting Items:

is almost always the way to go on non-supp-, since it provides you with all of the important mage starter stats. is just straight trolling and can be used if you want to, but it really weakens in a lot of points. In 99% of all cases you are just better off choosing ring.

basically gives you some more lane-sustain, than at the cost of damage and health stats. It can help in very hard poke-matchups, where you need a lot of sustain, but it slows down your stacking.

Early Items/Firstback:

Your ideal first back is just a . It provides you with the necessary lane-sustain in terms of mana and builds into your core-item. You basically get all important stats, you need for a fluid laning phase (just like ).

If you have enough extra gold, if the enemy laner will arrive in lane first, or if you just want the comfort-MS, you should buy , since it's just overall a solid item. It can help securing kills, escaping death and moving around the map faster. It also sits at a comfortably low price, which makes it ideal to buy if you have extra gold to spend.

Instead of buying a it is most of the time better to just buy and -components. (The best alternative is probably , since two of them give you the same stats for just 20 more gold.)

A general rule of thumb for shopping is to always buy a . Vision and vision-control wins games and having a control ward in lane, can make your laning phase way more secure and drastically increase your versatility. You should always buy at least one, if you have the gold.

Core:

is your core item for this build, since the passive gives you important burst and waveclear. This item is also your mana-core. 600 mana and 90 AP are nothing to sneeze at and it just makes for a smoother rest of the game.

These are basically the main mage-boots. are just the best variant for burst-mages, because they give you extra damage by reducing the effectiveness of enemy champions' MR. It also reduces base-MR, which means that you are always gonna get damage out of it.

Since you are gonna get a lot of AP from your items and passive, is almost always gonna have more value than other AP-items. It just ups your oneshots and overall damage by a lot. You can even go so far to build a second one later (see below).

Further Itemization:

is just an insanely good item with a lot of utility. You build if out of a and , which are both insanely good items by themselves, and the stats of this item are really decent. The good part about this item is it's active. The active grants you insane safety in fights and is on a really low cooldown. Every mage should consider buying this for safety.

If the enemy team has hard poke or you are getting anoyed by random s locking you down, you can buy a for the spellshield and MR. It adds a lot of safety vs annoying hard-cc. If you are dying to roots, consider buying this. Remember to play around your spellshield tho, since losing your spellshield to something unnecessary like is really lame and eanables you to be rooted again.

If you want flat damage, you can build a . This thing hits like a truck even vs non-tanks, since it also reduces base MR. It is really good if you are the main thread on your team and the enemies build MR (or don't), or if they have resistance-stacking tanks, which the pen is very effective against.

I adressed buying a second earlier, so let's go over it now. If you are snowballing hard and don't see the need to buy a or early, you can buy a second to increase your AP to unbearable levels. The passive doesn't stack, but the flat AP it gives you also affects the first deathcap's passive. (A second deathcap is basically worth 168 AP)

counters heals and tanks. It's always useful to build if you are against some kind of bruiser who heals themselves (such as or ). is a cheap alternative to , but never outvalues , so keep that in mind, when considering to build this.

This item is mostly used in a build, but it can still help hitting your combo. It also adds some more comfort stats like mana and CDR. Overall decent but very situational.

If they have assassins or you need to create or close gaps, is really good in doing that. The slow and MS help kiting away and chasing and the activa can also be used to track flankers or catch out of position enemies. It also has some CDR if you want more.

Changelog

03/12/2020: Creation of this guide, WIP
03/25/2020: Added "Itemization" chapter and a changelog