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.
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
The Veigar Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Veigar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is paired with Graves, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Graves does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Graves on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Veigar in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Veigar that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Graves is a very typical teammate for Veigar. By playing on the same team as Veigar, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 49.0%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Veigar and Graves that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Veigar. That means Veigar players don't need to be cautious when arranging Graves comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, Veigar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Veigar and Graves together, you will not be granting your side very much cover. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Veigar to pair well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Veigar and Graves synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other common builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating 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. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
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