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.
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
The Veigar Draven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Draven, 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 Draven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Draven helps Veigar perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Veigar tries to synergize with Draven, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Draven doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played together with Draven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Draven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Draven.
Moreover, when Veigar plays with Draven on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Draven does a decent job of protecting Veigar in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Veigar that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Draven is a relatively poor teammate for Veigar. By playing on the same team as Veigar, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Veigar and Draven that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Draven has a greater difficulty than Veigar. That means Veigar players should be very careful when arranging Draven allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Veigar and Draven together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much engage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Draven ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to pair well with Draven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Veigar and Draven synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Veigar used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Draven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Draven with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Veigar players 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 sets we have analyed for Veigar and Draven pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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