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.
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
The Veigar Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Yorick. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Yorick helps Veigar perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Veigar plays on the same team as Yorick, he gets a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Yorick does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played with Yorick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Yorick. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Yorick.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Yorick on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Yorick does a decent job of covering Veigar during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Veigar that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Yorick is a decent companion for Veigar. By being on the same team as Veigar, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Veigar and Yorick that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Veigar. That means Veigar players don't need to be careful when lining up Yorick teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe 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 Yorick together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Veigar to synergize with Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Veigar and Yorick synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Yorick than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when playing alongside Yorick with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Yorick with Veigar are given for every ranked division. To filter the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.