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Veigar Mid build & stats

Mage A 89 games · patch 16.16
Win rate
53.9%
Pick rate
6.4%
Ban rate
3.0%
Division
All divisions

Recommended build

Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.16

Built from single items

Best three items so far

Cryptbloom
Cryptbloom
3,000 gold
Hextech Rocketbelt
Hextech Rocketbelt
2,650 gold
Rabadon's Deathcap
Rabadon's Deathcap
3,500 gold
9,150 gold
83.3% WR each item separately

Boots

Crimson Lucidity
Crimson Lucidity
900 gold
90.0% 10 games

Runes

Inspiration Inspiration + Sorcery Sorcery
57.6% WR
33 games · 37% pick
First Strike
First Strike

When you initiate champion combat, deal 7% extra damage for 3 seconds and gain gold based on damage dealt.

Inspiration Inspiration
Glacial Augment Unsealed Spellbook First Strike
Magical Footwear Hextech Flashtraption Cash Back
Triple Tonic Biscuit Delivery Time Warp Tonic
Jack Of All Trades Cosmic Insight Approach Velocity
Sorcery Sorcery
Axiom Arcanist Manaflow Band Nimbus Cloak
Transcendence Absolute Focus Celerity
Waterwalking Gathering Storm Scorch
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling

Summoner spells

Flash Teleport
64.2% 67 games

Each line is the variant with the best win rate among those played enough times, not simply the most popular one. Win rates are smoothed so a lucky three-game build can't top the list. Not enough players have finished the same three items yet, so the core above is the three strongest items measured one by one. Sample sizes are shown next to every choice.

Tips for Veigar

Generated from this patch's numbers

  • Veigar wins 53.9% of games as Mid on patch 16.16 (89 games).
  • Most common core: Rabadon's Deathcap → Shadowflame → Luden's Echo — 71% win rate over 7 games.
  • Take First Strike as keystone: picked in 49% of games with a 61% win rate.

Items

Most common sets of three completed items

Core build

Rabadon's Deathcap
Rabadon's Deathcap
Shadowflame
Shadowflame
Luden's Echo
Luden's Echo
71.4% WR
7 games · 8% pick
Rabadon's Deathcap
Rabadon's Deathcap
Shadowflame
Shadowflame
Stormsurge
Stormsurge
40.0% WR
5 games · 6% pick
Rabadon's Deathcap
Rabadon's Deathcap
Zhonya's Hourglass
Zhonya's Hourglass
Shadowflame
Shadowflame
50.0% WR
4 games · 4% pick

Starting items

Doran's Ring
Doran's Ring
Health Potion
Health Potion
Health Potion
Health Potion
50.0% WR
2 games · 2% pick

Boots

Spellslinger's Shoes
Spellslinger's Shoes
50.7% WR
67 games · 75% pick
Crimson Lucidity
Crimson Lucidity
90.0% WR
10 games · 11% pick
Chainlaced Crushers
Chainlaced Crushers
50.0% WR
4 games · 4% pick

Legendary items by win rate

ItemWin ratePick
100.0% 8% (7)
100.0% 7% (6)
61.1% 61% (54)
60.7% 31% (28)
60.0% 22% (20)
57.1% 31% (28)
55.6% 10% (9)
50.0% 34% (30)
47.9% 54% (48)
33.3% 3% (3)

Runes

Most played full pages and keystone win rates

Inspiration Inspiration + Sorcery Sorcery
57.6% WR
33 games · 37% pick
First Strike
First Strike

When you initiate champion combat, deal 7% extra damage for 3 seconds and gain gold based on damage dealt.

Inspiration Inspiration
Glacial Augment Unsealed Spellbook First Strike
Magical Footwear Hextech Flashtraption Cash Back
Triple Tonic Biscuit Delivery Time Warp Tonic
Jack Of All Trades Cosmic Insight Approach Velocity
Sorcery Sorcery
Axiom Arcanist Manaflow Band Nimbus Cloak
Transcendence Absolute Focus Celerity
Waterwalking Gathering Storm Scorch
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling
Sorcery Sorcery + Domination Domination
52.2% WR
23 games · 26% pick
Arcane Comet Manaflow Band Transcendence Gathering Storm Cheap Shot Ultimate Hunter
Domination Domination + Sorcery Sorcery
40.0% WR
5 games · 6% pick
Electrocute Taste of Blood Grisly Mementos Treasure Hunter Manaflow Band Transcendence

Keystones

  • First Strike First Strike When you initiate champion combat, deal 7% extra damage for 3 seconds and gain gold based on damage dealt. 61.4%49% pick
  • Arcane Comet Arcane Comet Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a damaging comet at their location. 53.6%31% pick
  • Electrocute Electrocute Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage. 37.5%9% pick
  • Dark Harvest Dark Harvest Damaging a low health champion inflicts adaptive damage and harvests a soul from the victim. 0.0%3% pick

Summoner spells

  • Flash Teleport Flash + Teleport 64.2%75% pick
  • Flash Ignite Flash + Ignite 23.1%15% pick
  • Flash Barrier Flash + Barrier 14.3%8% pick

Abilities & skill order

Which ability to max first, from match timelines

Baleful Strike Q Dark Matter W Event Horizon E 50.0%2 games

Most common first three levels: Q → W → E (50%).

  • PPhenomenal Evil Power

    Veigar is the greatest Evil to ever strike at the hearts of Runeterra - and he's only getting bigger! Striking an enemy Champion with a spell or scoring a takedown grants Veigar permanently increased Ability Power.

  • QBaleful Strike

    Veigar unleashes a bolt of dark energy that deals magic damage to the first two enemies hit. Units killed by this bolt grant Veigar some ability power permanently.

  • WDark Matter

    Veigar calls a great mass of dark matter to fall from the sky to the target location, dealing magic damage when it lands. Stacks of Phenomenal Evil reduce Dark Matter's cooldown.

  • EEvent Horizon

    Veigar twists the edges of space, creating a cage that Stuns enemies that pass through.

  • RPrimordial Burst

    Blasts target enemy champion, dealing a large amount of magic damage, increasing based on the target's missing health.