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.
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
The Veigar Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Heimerdinger helps Veigar perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is an ally to Heimerdinger, he sees a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Heimerdinger doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played alongside Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Heimerdinger. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Veigar in team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Veigar that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Heimerdinger is a not very good teammate for Veigar. By locking into the same side as Veigar, he lowers their win rate by -2.6% to 46.7%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Veigar and Heimerdinger that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Veigar. That means you need to be cautious when finding Heimerdinger allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see 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 bringing Veigar and Heimerdinger together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough attack damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Heimerdinger ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Veigar to synergize with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Veigar and Heimerdinger synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Veigar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with many other typical builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 46.7% helping carry Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.7% win rate overall.
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