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 Veigar Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Briar helps Veigar perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is paired with Briar, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Briar does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Briar on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Briar does a decent job of protecting Veigar during team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Veigar that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Briar is a pretty good ally for Veigar. By being on the same team as Veigar, they increases their win rate by 2.7% to 52.0%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Veigar and Briar that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Veigar. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Briar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Veigar and Briar together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of engage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Briar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Veigar in order to work well with Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Veigar and Briar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Veigar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Briar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 52.0% when playing alongside Briar with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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