You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
The Brand Veigar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Veigar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Veigar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Veigar helps Brand perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand is paired with Veigar, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Veigar does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Veigar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Veigar.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Veigar on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Veigar does a decent job of covering Brand in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Brand that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Veigar is a very bad ally for Brand. By playing on the same side as Brand, he lowers their win rate by -3.6% to 47.8%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Brand and Veigar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Veigar has a greater difficulty than Brand. That means Brand players must be very careful when lining up Veigar teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Brand and Veigar together, you will not be giving your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Veigar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand to synergize with Veigar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Brand and Veigar synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Veigar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 47.8% helping carry Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Veigar with Brand are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.