Click to open network menu
Join or Log In
Mobafire logo

Join the leading League of Legends community. Create and share Champion Guides and Builds.

Create an MFN Account






Or

This build has been archived and is for historical display only

This build has been archived by the author. They are no longer supporting nor updating this build and it may have become outdated. As such, voting and commenting have been disabled and it no longer appears in regular search results.

We recommend you take a look at this author's other builds.


x
Not Updated For Current Season

This guide has not yet been updated for the current season. Please keep this in mind while reading. You can see the most recently updated guides on the browse guides page

x
Veigar Build Guide by Vapora Dark

Middle Vapora Dark's Grandmaster Veigar Guide Season 11

Middle Vapora Dark's Grandmaster Veigar Guide Season 11

Updated on September 22, 2021
9.2
790
Votes
61
Vote Vote
League of Legends Build Guide Author Vapora Dark Build Guide By Vapora Dark 790 61 3,631,292 Views 59 Comments
790 61 3,631,292 Views 59 Comments League of Legends Build Guide Author Vapora Dark Veigar Build Guide By Vapora Dark Updated on September 22, 2021
x
Did this guide help you? If so please give them a vote or leave a comment. You can even win prizes by doing so!
Vote
Comment

You must be logged in to comment. Please login or register.

I liked this Guide
I didn't like this Guide
Commenting is required to vote!
Would you like to add a comment to your vote?

Your votes and comments encourage our guide authors to continue
creating helpful guides for the League of Legends community.

Runes: Standard

1 2
Domination
Electrocute
Taste of Blood
Ghost Poro
Ravenous Hunter

Precision
Presence of Mind
Cut Down
Bonus:

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

Spells:

LoL Summoner Spell: Flash

Flash

LoL Summoner Spell: Teleport

Teleport


Hi, I'm Vapora Dark, a veteran player that's been playing since season 1. During that time I've hit Master tier as a mid lane main in season 5, as an ADC main in season 7, and again as a jungle main in season 8. I can play every role to a very high level and have a very good understanding of the general aspects of the game on top of that. I'm also a full time League of Legends streamer and work for Riot Games to write champion guides on the Lolesports site, as well as having accumulated over 100 million views across all my MOBAFire guides, where I've been writing guides since 2011.

My Play Like The Pros guide series is a collaboration between myself and other high Elo experienced guide writers to bring you quality guides for as many different champions as possible. We use the tried and proven best builds used by pro players and elite solo queue players alike to ensure we give you the greatest possible chances of winning your games.
This guide was a collaboration with Embracing,
who wrote the majority of the guide.


Veigar has always been a very niche mid lane pick competitively. With regards to his kit, Veigar's low-range, delayed CC, lack of mobility, and necessity to farm for items and AP has left him with an abysmal early game focused around survival in lane and inconsistent ranged damage output with low ranges on his Q and delayed damage from his W. These noticeable and abusable flaws left him undesired by most mid lane players. However, with regards to dynamic queue and personal play, Veigar functions perfectly fine as a scaling, high-burst AP mid laner, essentially as a low-range, low-mobility mage that has extremely high burst and scaling.

This guide was a collaboration with Diamond mid lane aficionado Embracing, who wrote the vast majority of the guide. We hope that this guide can help or teach you a few things about Veigar that you can apply to your gameplay.

If you like Veigar and would enjoy talking about him, come participate in /r/VeigarMains on Reddit.



+ Safe laning, high burst
+ Quick and explosive burst damage
+ Potential infinite scaling
+ Midrange AOE hard CC
+ Good midrange zoning
+ Strong pick potential

|| .
Veigar's most noticeable pros are his ability to instantly melt enemies after he gets a few items and his potentially infinite scaling, granting him extremely powerful zoning potential with his E and W as the game progresses. His ultimate is powerful enough to deal a huge percentage of an enemy's health against a tank or squishy. If you do end up landing a stun with your E or force the enemy squishies into your E, you can pretty much one-shot enemies with your W Q and R.



- Unreliable trading mechanic
- Low-range & squishy
- Very immobile
- Inconsistent midrange damage output
- Abysmal early lane w/ various bad matchups
- Extremely weak when behind


|| However, Veigar does have very apparent flaws. Most of his problems lie within reaching an ideal scenario where he has a lot of room to work with to one shot enemies. Veigar's weak abilities in lane and immobile kit forces him to be extremely passive on his own early on. Although his E is a great setup for early ganks, without them Veigar can hardly force trades early on due to his low damage and long CDs. Aside from his early lane, even after mid - late game hits, his E is simultaneously both his best way of zoning and his only way to self-peel, so careful usage of his E is necessary to not get picked off.



The jack of all trades - core on nearly every single champion because it let's you escape, chase, dive, land crucial spells from farther range, etc. ||

Helps you survive early lane phase and also grants you more global pressure without sacrificing lane pressure. Typically used once or twice to come back into lane early on with more lane pressure as you can force hard trades and just simply TP back to gain more leniency in lane. ||

Versatile defensive option for when you need more survivability or dueling power. Also helps greatly in skirmishes to save teammates. ||

Ghost helps you chase up to people to land Event Horizon and gapclose easier, as well as the fact that it gives more versatility to Veigar for kiting and overall mobility when you don't need Teleport to survive lane. ||

Helps you survive in all-ins vs threatening assassins like Zed who contain a lot of burst and need to come in melee range to execute their combos. Helps slow the enemy / shut down damage in all-ins. ||





Sorcery & Inspiration



Arcane Comet
Arcane Comet: Consistent option for laning and damage output. Landing Event Horizon will guarantee that this lands, making Veigar and effective user of Arcane Comet.

Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band: Really good for mana sustain in lane. Other alternative is Nullifying Orb if versus a scary AP laner that can threaten lethal on you. e.g. LeBlanc.

Transcendence
Transcendence: Extra CDR to help increase the CDR in the build, as we don't cap CDR with the build alone. Simply better than the alternatives, especially since the nerfs to Celerity.

Gathering Storm
Gathering Storm: Best for scaling and complements your passive even more. Nerfs to Scorch made this much more appealing.


Inspiration


Cosmic Insight


Biscuit Delivery
Cosmic Insight: All mages benefit greatly from CDR and Veigar is no exception. The reduced cooldowns on summoners and item actives is just an added bonus.

Magical Footwear: Great for sustaining in lane as well as surviving close situations. The biscuits you get from this rune restore percentage missing health / mana, meaning they scale throughout the game better than other potions.

Offense:
9 Adaptive Force
Flex:
9 Adaptive Force
Defense:
8 Magic Resistance

Inspiration & Domination



Glacial Augment
Glacial Augment: The core of the build! This makes all your items apply an additional slowing effect, helping you provide utility. This is great on Veigar because it provides him an avenue to be effective early-mid game but also doesn't affect his late game as he still gains stacks from Q.

Magical Footwear
Magical Footwear: A free pair of boots is basically putting you 300g ahead over everyone who doesn't take the rune. With the way Glacial Augment plays so well with specific items, being able to ignore the boost cost lets you rush those items more quickly allowing you to be so much more effective earlier on.

Biscuit Delivery
Biscuit Delivery: Sustain from biscuits helps greatly with surviving lane and they also scale well as the game progresses.

Cosmic Insight
Cosmic Insight: Extra cooldown reduction is nice, but more importantly is that this has CDR for your items. With Glacial Augment it's very important to be able to use your items as much as possible making this rune do some of the best double duty possible.


Domination


Taste Of Blood


Ingenious Hunter
Taste of Blood: This provides a decent amount of healing when in trades or simply dealing damage to enemies, making it better than the alternatives.

Ingenious Hunter: With Glacial Augment you want to make liberal use of items like Everfrost and Twin Shadows to get the most out of the keystone. Being able to use them almost twice as much is incredibly useful which makes this rune a must have.


Offense:
9 Adaptive Force
Flex:
9 Adaptive Force
Defense:
8 Magic Resistance



|| Phenomenal Evil Power: INNATE: Veigar gains a stack of Phenomenal Evil whenever he hits an enemy champion with an ability, and 3 stacks whenever he scores a champion takedown. Veigar gains 1 Ability Power for every stack of Phenomenal Evil. || //


This is mostly what defines Veigar's gameplay. This, along with Baleful Strike's passive are what allow Veigar to potentially scale infinitely, as the AP gain from stacks has no cap. A lot of your attention early to mid game will be on poking the enemy to get stacks of AP.



|| PASSIVE: Killing a unit with Baleful Strike grants 1 stack of Phenomenal Evil, doubled against large minions and monsters.
ACTIVE: Veigar unleashes a bolt of dark energy in the target direction, dealing magic damage to the first two enemies hit.
|| Q

A very straightforward ability - Baleful Strike's passive works in conjunction with Veigar's passive to enable him to rack up AP through farming. This ability defines your early lane as your primary goal will be to try to land the ability on both the enemy champion as well as low HP minions for maximum efficiency. Later on this ability will be a part of your main combo, but is harder to use given its short range and consequently necessity for Veigar to get in closer range.


|| ACTIVE: Veigar calls a mass of dark matter to fall from the sky to the target location, which lands after a 1.25 second delay, dealing magic damage to all enemies hit. || W

One of the harder abilities to hit but definitely an extremely potent one. Early on this is what will be your primary waveclear ability. This will help you not get shoved in when you don't want to and get more control of the lane. As the game draws out, when Dark Matter hits, it is deadly, but due to the delay, most of the time you'll be using this along with your stun to guarantee a hit or to zone out enemies.


|| ACTIVE: Veigar forms a cage around the target area which materializes after a 0.5 second delay and lasts for 3 seconds, Grounded icon knocking down and Stun icon stunning all enemies who pass through its edges for the first time. || E

Another definitive Veigar ability, Event Horizon is both what allows Veigar to catch out enemies and instagib them / let your team catch up, and also Veigar only method of self-defense against high threat enemies that have hard CC or burst. This is a very strong tool to pick off enemies or get zone control, but using this also results in Veigar becoming extremely vulnerable to enemies. This results in you having to stick with your team most of the time later on when using Event Horizon as a zoning tool. Early on, however, this is an amazing ability to coordinate ganks with, as you can almost always guarantee a kill or a Flash.


|| ACTIVE: Veigar blasts the target enemy champion with primordial energy, dealing them magic damage. Primordial Burst deals 1.5% increased damage for every 1% of target's missing health, up to double damage against targets below 33.3% of their maximum health. || R

Primordial Burst is Veigar's primary source of burst as the game progresses. A very strong execute, this ability is potent enough to deal at least half a squishy target's HP throughout the game. As this ability scales off of enemy missing HP, you'll be ideally using this to finish off enemies after your combo. As the game progresses, often times you'll find that landing your W and R will be enough to kill enemies. However this does have a limited range so you'll often find yourself having to put yourself close to enemies to get this ability out.



Ability Sequence
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

You'll want to max your Q first, as it's your reliable laning ability for poke and last-hitting. Then you'll want to max your E, which helps increase the stun duration, letting you hit your W's in your ability combo as well as let your teammates have more room to act. Lastly, max your W, as the extra stun duration from E is simply more important than the damage increase from W.

Veigar has a very straightforward kit. You'll most times want to poke and waveclear with Q and W, try to get a pick by starting off your combo with E, then following with WQR to kill someone. Early on, your E's stun duration is a lot lower resulting in you not being able to land your W before they escape the CC, so you might have to skip the W and go straight to EQR for damage.



This chapter is currently under reconstruction following the Season 11 items rework, apologies for the inconvenience.



Veigar primarily functions as a very squishy, immobile, mid-low range burst / zone-control mage that excels in picking off enemies. Veigar has an extremely vulnerable and weak early game but has the potential to scale up infinitely. Veigar's most noticeable power spikes in lane is around level six - aside from that he scales exponentially. He excels in skirmishes with his ability to land crucial stuns and force enemies into unfavorable locations for them often times netting you early picks in fights but also is decent in when grouping up to siege or teamfight with his E and W being potent zone control abilities.




Veigar has extremely horrid matchups against long range mages who can simply poke Veigar throughout the game while untouched and also against bursty assassins who can maneuver around Veigar's E delay to kill you easily.

Although Veigar does have a few favorable matchups, most cases the matchups will force you to farm and poke with Q. Unless you can guarantee your E landing, trades will most often end up going in the opponent's favor. Against weaker laners you can position more comfortably, but even so, in a matchup where the mid or enemy jungler has one hard CC, you'll more often than not have to burn a Flash or end up dying when trying to establish more lane pressure. As a result, considering your safety before aggressing is paramount.

However, Veigar's E does allow him to coordinate ganks extremely well. If you do end up landing the stun, you can always guarantee a Flash or a kill. In scenarios where the enemy counterganks, landing your stun is crucial to coming out ahead, as you risk getting collapsed on with no methods of self-defense and followup damage.

Aim to farm up for items and AP stacks - Utilize Teleport effectively by forcing favorable trades then backing and TPing back into lane, positioning safely and comfortably without losing too much mid lane pressure, and transition that into a solid mid game.




This is where Veigar shines. As you start to get a few items and levels, you're able to clear minion waves consistently with your W and Q, allowing for more room to roam and act. Most times you'll be able to kill anyone you catch with your EWQR combo, giving your team a lot more map pressure. Skirmishes are most common at this time as well, which are where Veigar excels in, as your ability to pick off targets and zone off enemies is amazing. You should aim to establish sizable advantages and transition them into a win at this time. Of course, if you cannot do so that is fine as well. You should just aim to maintain gold income and transition into a strong late game.





Although Veigar does scale up substantially as the game progresses, as late game hits you lose a lot of control over the game. Getting picks becomes riskier as enemies start to get more resistances and tend to group more. More often than not you'll just end up sticking with your team, focusing on gaining vision control, holding proper minion waves, then grouping to force towers / objectives. In sieges you have to rely on your team, although proper ability usage will help your team net kills / force favorable fights against mispositioned enemies. Try to pick off enemies positioning awkwardly, focus on zoning / poking with E and W, and take objectives, aiming to net yourself a Victory.




That's it for my Veigar guide! Hopefully this guide has taught you a few things about Veigar and how he fits into a standard game of League of Legends compared to the other champions in the game. If you have any feedback feel free to leave them in the comments section below or send me a PM on MOBAFire. Veigar has a decently high skill ceiling and while he is not the most mechanically intensive, he can have extremely high impact over a game under the right circumstances.



Thanks to MissMaw and Hoppermh for the graphics.

And special thanks to Embracing, who wrote the vast majority of the guide and has much more experience with the champion than I do.
Download the Porofessor App for Windows
League of Legends Build Guide Author Vapora Dark
Vapora Dark Veigar Guide
Support
Vote Vote

League of Legends Champions:

Teamfight Tactics Guide