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.
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
The Veigar Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Veigar perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Veigar is paired with Nidalee, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Nidalee doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played with Nidalee 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 Nidalee.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Nidalee on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Veigar during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Veigar that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Nidalee is a very bad companion for Veigar. By playing on the same side as Veigar, she lowers their win rate by -6.1% to 43.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Veigar and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Veigar. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Nidalee comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Veigar and Nidalee together, you may not be providing your team a lot of cover. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to work well with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Veigar and Nidalee synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Nidalee than with most other common builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 43.2% helping carry Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use 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 Veigar and Nidalee pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.2% winrate overall.
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