Veigar Mid Build

Veigar Champion Guide

Role: Mage

Lane: Midlane

Veigar Mid performs best with a build featuring Rod of Ages, Sorcerer's Shoes, Archangel's Staff, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Void Staff. The most effective rune setup for Veigar Mid includes First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, paired with Manaflow Band and Transcendence in the secondary tree.

Veigar Champion Abilities

Phenomenal Evil Power

Striking an enemy champion with an ability grants Veigar a stack of Phenomenal Evil. Takedowns grant an additional 5 stacks. Phenomenal Evil gives Veigar 1 ability power per stack. P

Baleful Strike

Veigar unleashes a bolt of dark energy, dealing 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70% of ability power) magic damage to the first two enemies hit. For each target killed, Veigar gains 1 stack of Phenomenal Evil. This bonus is doubled if the target killed is a large minion or large monster. Q

Dark Matter

After 1.2 seconds, dark matter falls from the sky to the target location, dealing 85 / 140 / 195 / 250 / 305 (+60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100% of ability power) magic damage.

Every 50 stacks of Phenomenal Evil lowers Dark Matter's cooldown by 10% (stacks multiplicatively with Cooldown Reduction). W

Event Horizon

After a 0.5 second delay, Veigar twists the edges of space around the target location for 3 seconds, stunning enemies who pass through the perimeter for 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 seconds. E

Primordial Burst

Blasts the target enemy champion with primal magic to between 175 / 250 / 325 (+65 / 70 / 75% of ability power) and 350 / 500 / 650 (+130 / 140 / 150% of ability power) magic damage, increasing based on the target's missing health.

Damage is maximized against enemies below 33% health. R

Veigar Summoner Spells

Flash

Flash is a location-targeted summoner spell that causes your champion to blink to the location in range of your cursor.

Teleport

Teleport is a unit-targeted summoner spell that blinks your champion to the target allied unit after a few seconds of channeling.

Teleport transforms into Unleashed Teleport after 10:00.

Veigar Runes

Veigar Items

Veigar Ability Order

Veigar Matchups Overview

Strong against

Smolder

Azir

Diana

Jayce

Ryze

Orianna

Weak against

Irelia

Akshan

Fizz

Qiyana

Zed

Talon

Veigar Tips and Tricks

Do not use your E unless you are going for a kill or to set up a gank. It costs a lot of mana and is your main source of escaping. Look to farm with your Q to gain stacks and increase your AP. Line up multiple minions for extra damage. Use your R on squishy targets to execute them at the start of the fight and make it 5v4.

Veigar Best Build, Runes and Items

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Veigar Mid build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick First Strike as your keystone, followed by Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, as well as Manaflow Band and Transcendence in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Ability Haste in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Rod of Ages as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Archangel's Staff. For your last 3 items, you should build Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff and finish with Zhonya's Hourglass. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E.

Optional

Your second option for Veigar Mid build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Arcane Comet as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Gathering Storm in the primary tree, and Cheap Shot with Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Rod of Ages, which you should build first, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item and Archangel's Staff as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff and Zhonya's Hourglass. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being First Strike as your keystone, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Manaflow Band with Transcendence in the secondary tree, as well as Ability Haste, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Luden's Companion as your first item, then Sorcerer's Shoes as a second item and Rabadon's Deathcap as a third item. You want to finish the build with Zhonya's Hourglass, Void Staff and Banshee's Veil. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Veigar Mid build, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Grisly Mementos and Treasure Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Manaflow Band with Transcendence as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Rod of Ages as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Archangel's Staff as third item. The last 3 options are Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff and Zhonya's Hourglass. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E.

Situational Veigar Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or taking specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state, and your matchup to plan your Veigar build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.