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.
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
The Veigar Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Olaf helps Veigar perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is paired with Olaf, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Olaf helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played together with Olaf 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 Olaf.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Olaf on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Veigar in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Veigar that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Olaf is a below average companion for Veigar. By being on the same team as Veigar, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Veigar and Olaf that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Veigar. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Olaf teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Veigar and Olaf together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of engage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Olaf teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to work well with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Veigar and Olaf synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Olaf than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Olaf with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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. Of all the runes players picked for Veigar and Olaf pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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