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.
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
The Veigar Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Yasuo helps Veigar perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is paired with Yasuo, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Yasuo does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played together with Yasuo 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 synergisticly with Yasuo.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Yasuo on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Yasuo does a decent job of protecting Veigar in teamfights.
There is no top ally for Veigar that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Yasuo is a pretty good teammate for Veigar. By locking into the same team as Veigar, he increases their win rate by 1.2% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Veigar and Yasuo that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Yasuo has a greater difficulty than Veigar. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Yasuo allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Veigar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Veigar and Yasuo together, you may not be providing your other allies enough engage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Yasuo ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Veigar in order to synergize with Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Veigar and Yasuo synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Veigar incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Yasuo than with most other common builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 50.5% when playing alongside Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating 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 Yasuo pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Yasuo with Veigar are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.