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.
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
The Veigar Zyra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zyra, 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 Zyra. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zyra helps Veigar perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is an ally to Zyra, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Zyra does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played together with Zyra on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zyra. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zyra.
Moreover, when Veigar plays with Zyra on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zyra does a poor job of covering Veigar during teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Veigar that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Zyra is a pretty good ally for Veigar. By being on the same side as Veigar, she raises their win rate by 2.1% to 51.4%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Veigar and Zyra that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zyra has a lower difficulty than Veigar. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Zyra allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Veigar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Veigar and Zyra together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of engage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Zyra teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to synergize with Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Veigar and Zyra synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Veigar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Zyra than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 51.4% helping carry Zyra with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against 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 players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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