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.
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
The Veigar Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taliyah helps Veigar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Veigar plays on the same team as Taliyah, he sees a noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Taliyah does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played with Taliyah on the same team, 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 Taliyah.
Moreover, when Veigar plays with Taliyah on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Taliyah does a decent job of covering Veigar in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Veigar that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Taliyah is a terrible companion for Veigar. By being on the same side as Veigar, she decreases their win rate by -6.7% to 42.6%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Veigar and Taliyah that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Taliyah has a lower difficulty than Veigar. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Taliyah teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Veigar and Taliyah together, you may not be providing your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Taliyah ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Veigar to pair well with Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Veigar and Taliyah synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Taliyah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 42.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Taliyah with this build.
To have the highest likelihood 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Taliyah with Veigar are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.