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.
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
The Veigar Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ryze helps Veigar perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Veigar tries to synergize with Ryze, he sees a measurable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Ryze doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played with Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ryze.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Ryze on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Ryze does a decent job of covering Veigar during teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Veigar that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Ryze is a relatively poor companion for Veigar. By playing on the same team as Veigar, he decreases their win rate by -2.6% to 46.7%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Veigar and Ryze that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Ryze has a lower difficulty than Veigar. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Ryze allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Veigar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Veigar and Ryze together, you will not be providing your team enough attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Ryze ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to synergize with Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Veigar and Ryze synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Ryze than with most other common builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 46.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against 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 used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Ryze with Veigar are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.