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.
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
The Veigar Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Veigar perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is an ally to Garen, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Garen helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Garen.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Garen on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of covering Veigar during teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Veigar that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Garen is a very typical ally for Veigar. By being on the same side as Veigar, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Veigar and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Veigar. That means Veigar players don't need to be careful when finding Garen teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Veigar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Veigar and Garen together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Veigar to synergize with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Veigar and Garen synergy build include Void Staff, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Veigar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Garen than with many other common builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating 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 chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
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