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.
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
The Veigar Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, 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 Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nunu & Willump helps Veigar perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Veigar tries to synergize with Nunu & Willump, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may signal that Nunu & Willump provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Veigar during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Veigar that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Nunu & Willump is a not very good ally for Veigar. By locking into the same team as Veigar, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 47.1%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Veigar and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Veigar. That means Veigar players don't need to be careful when arranging Nunu & Willump teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Veigar and Nunu & Willump together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Veigar to synergize with Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Veigar and Nunu & Willump synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with most other typical builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 47.1% helping carry Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Veigar players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Veigar and Nunu & Willump pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.1% winrate overall.
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