Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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 Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Veigar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Veigar helps Gragas perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is an ally to Veigar, he sees a measurable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Veigar does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Veigar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Veigar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Veigar.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Veigar on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Veigar does a poor job of covering Gragas during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Gragas that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Veigar is a terrible ally for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he decreases their win rate by -4.0% to 43.9%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Gragas and Veigar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Veigar has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Veigar comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Gragas and Veigar together, you probably will not be giving your side very much AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Veigar teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to synergize with Veigar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Gragas and Veigar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Veigar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 43.9% helping carry Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.9% win rate overall.
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