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.
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.
The Veigar Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Veigar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Brand helps Veigar perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is paired with Brand, he sees a measurable drop in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Brand does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played together with Brand 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 alongside Brand.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Brand on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of protecting Veigar during team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Veigar that will always be his top teammate. However, Brand is a below average companion for Veigar. By playing on the same side as Veigar, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 47.8%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Veigar and Brand that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Veigar. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Brand teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Veigar and Brand together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Brand teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Veigar to synergize with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Veigar and Brand synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Veigar included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Brand than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 47.8% when playing alongside Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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