It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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 Shyvana Veigar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Veigar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shyvana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Veigar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Veigar helps Shyvana perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana plays on the same team as Veigar, she observes a small decrease in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Veigar does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Veigar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Veigar.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Veigar on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Veigar does a poor job of protecting Shyvana in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Shyvana that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Veigar is a below average teammate for Shyvana. By playing on the same team as Shyvana, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Shyvana and Veigar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Veigar has a greater difficulty than Shyvana. That means you should be cautious when arranging Veigar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Shyvana and Veigar together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of cover. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Veigar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Shyvana in order to pair well with Veigar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Shyvana and Veigar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Shyvana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Veigar than with most other common builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 46.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Veigar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Shyvana players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
If you want to get Shyvana and Veigar collaboration tips and builds for a a particular player tier, please select one from the selection menu shown above. At first, the statistics and build suggestions displayed are calculated using all games finished with both champs.