What is the best build for Veigar?

We do not publish a best build for Veigar, and the reason is worth thirty seconds. The most recorded Veigar mid build on patch 16.14 is Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge and Luden's Echo, in 30 games. A finished item set is read at the end of the game, so a build only appears once the game ran long enough to buy it, and a game that runs long is usually a game you were winning. Any share of wins taken from those games leans high for that reason on its own, which is why there is not one in this answer. The page lists every recorded build with the games behind it.

What are the best runes for Veigar?

The most recorded Veigar mid rune page on patch 16.14 takes First Strike out of Inspiration, with Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight beside it and Transcendence and Manaflow Band out of Sorcery. Players who ran it won 50.8% of 317 games, range 45.3% to 56.2%. A rune page is locked in at champion select, so that share is not inflated by long games the way a build is, but it counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

What skill order should I use on Veigar?

Recorded Veigar mid players max Q, then W, then E. 207 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Veigar build, patch 16.14

1,587 games of Veigar recorded on patch 16.14, across mid, bot, support, top and jungle.

Win rate

52.2% of mid games this patch

Pick rate

1.0% of mid games

Games

805 mid, patch 16.14

Rank in role

16 of 109 mid champions

Win impact against the average mid pick on patch 16.14: +0.6 wins per 100 games (range -1.2 to 2.5) 805 games Pooled

What most Veigar mid players build, patch 16.14

Build Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge and Luden's Echo, and run First Strike

The rune page they run

Inspiration

First Strike

Sorcery

Shards

317 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

The skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 207 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W		W						W		W		W	W
E			E											E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 W, 11 R, 12 W, 13 W, 14 E, 15 E, 16 R, 17 E, 18 E

Max Q, then W, then E. The level by level count.

30 games finished this exact set. It is the set recorded most often, which is a fact about players rather than about the items.

Share of those games that were wins, in percent 47% (range 30-64) · 30 games · Measured

Games that finish a build are games that lasted, and lasting usually means winning, so this figure leans high before the items do anything. It is how those games went, not what the build does to your chances. How far that can bend a number.

Veigar mid is the role with the most recorded games on patch 16.14: 805 games, of which 420 were wins. That is the role this page leads with. Measured on this page: mid, bot, support and top, the roles that cleared 30 recorded games.

wins 0.6 per 100 vs the mid average · 805 games on 16.14 · first-time players measured (738 games) · no clear move vs 16.13 (+8.0, range -6.0 to +22.0)

The build above is the one recorded most often, nothing more. Every recorded build, with its own games and its own share, is in the build list, in the order players built them.

Why this answer

A champion and role pair needs 30 recorded games before we put a score or a win impact on it: under that, a handful of lucky games moves a win rate by ten points. The same floor applies to a single build and to a single rune page, and anything under it prints its games and no number.

The share on that figure says how the games went, not what the build does to you. Nothing on this page measures that; the method note at the end says why.

What do most Veigar players build?

Item sets recorded on patch 16.14, most built first, never sorted by how the games went. The share is how many of a build's own games were wins; a build under 30 games shows its games and no share.

Veigar, mid

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 1 of them cleared 30 games.

Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge and Luden's Echo
46.7% 30 games

A finished set is read at the end of the game, so every share here leans high: games that last long enough to finish a build are usually games that were already going well. How far that can bend a number.

Veigar, bot

7 item sets were recorded in this role and 2 of them cleared 30 games.

Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge and Luden's Echo
48.1% 54 games
Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge and Luden's Echo
63.3% 30 games

Veigar, support

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No support build recorded yet

We have 94 games of Veigar support on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

Veigar, top

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No top build recorded yet

We have 54 games of Veigar top on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

What runes do most Veigar players run?

Whole pages that players actually ran, most recorded first. A page is locked in at champion select, so long games do not inflate its share the way they inflate a build's; it still counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Veigar, mid

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 10 of them cleared 30 games.

First Strike Inspiration with Sorcery

317 games

Inspiration

First Strike

Sorcery

Shards

317 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Domination

97 games

Summon Aery Sorcery with Resolve

45 games

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Inspiration

40 games

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Resolve

37 games

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Precision

35 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

First Strike: 50.8% 327 games
Arcane Comet: 52.2% 209 games
Summon Aery: 53.5% 114 games
Stormraider's Surge: 52.6% 57 games
Unsealed Spellbook: 70.0% 40 games
Electrocute: 43.2% 37 games

8 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Veigar, bot

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 3 of them cleared 30 games.

First Strike Inspiration with Sorcery

355 games

Inspiration

First Strike

Sorcery

Shards

355 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Domination

69 games

Summon Aery Sorcery with Inspiration

35 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

First Strike: 52.4% 376 games
Arcane Comet: 52.3% 128 games
Summon Aery: 62.3% 53 games
Stormraider's Surge: 66.7% 39 games

8 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Veigar, support

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Domination

not enough games yet. 21 games so far, this needs 30. 21 games

Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Domination

Shards

21 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

First Strike Inspiration with Sorcery

not enough games yet. 16 games so far, this needs 30. 16 games

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Inspiration

not enough games yet. 8 games so far, this needs 30. 8 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Arcane Comet: 56.4% 39 games

6 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Veigar, top

6 complete pages were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

First Strike Inspiration with Sorcery

not enough games yet. 15 games so far, this needs 30. 15 games

Inspiration

First Strike

Sorcery

Shards

15 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Summon Aery Sorcery with Inspiration

not enough games yet. 10 games so far, this needs 30. 10 games

Summon Aery Sorcery with Resolve

not enough games yet. 7 games so far, this needs 30. 7 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Summon Aery: not enough games yet. 18 games so far, this needs 30. 18 games
First Strike: not enough games yet. 16 games so far, this needs 30. 16 games
Arcane Comet: not enough games yet. 11 games so far, this needs 30. 11 games

4 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

What skill order should I use?

Counted from recorded level-ups on patch 16.14, one player per game.

Max Q, then W, then E

207 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Veigar mid skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 207 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W		W						W		W		W	W
E			E											E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 W, 11 R, 12 W, 13 W, 14 E, 15 E, 16 R, 17 E, 18 E

Max Q, then W, then E

159 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Veigar bot skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 159 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W		W						W		W		W	W
E			E											E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 W, 11 R, 12 W, 13 W, 14 E, 15 E, 16 R, 17 E, 18 E

Veigar, support

Not enough support level-ups yet

not enough games yet. 26 games so far, this needs 30.

Veigar support has 94 games recorded, but only 26 games of them carry level-ups. A levelling order off that many games is luck.

How we count level-ups

Veigar, top

Not enough top level-ups yet

not enough games yet. 17 games so far, this needs 30.

Veigar top has 54 games recorded, but only 17 games of them carry level-ups. A levelling order off that many games is luck.

How we count level-ups

When do players buy each piece?

The pieces of the most recorded Veigar mid build, in the order players buy them. The time is the middle of the spread across every recorded game on patch 16.14, measured at the buy rather than at the end of the game: half the recorded buys of the item happen before it, half after.

Buy times, earliest first

Luden's Echo: 11:06 1,124 games
Stormsurge: 17:44 552 games
Rabadon's Deathcap: 25:52 1,313 games

The bar is scaled to the latest piece of the set. Each item links to its own page, where the whole spread sits beside the games behind it.

Who counters Veigar?

The opponents Veigar mid loses to most and the teammates Veigar gains the most beside on patch 16.14. The chip is the edge in wins per 100 games, and the games behind it sit under the name.

Hardest opponents

Not enough games yet to rank Veigar's opponents. Veigarmid has 849 games recorded on patch 16.14, and ranking opponents needs 1,000 before the baseline is steady; every opponent so far is counted, not ranked.

Best teammates

Not enough games yet to rank the champions Veigar wins beside.

These numbers come from 108,616 ranked games we recorded on EUW, Korea and NA, found by following Diamond players and the people they play with. That is not every rank and it is not every region. Everything on this page is patch 16.14. Counted up to 24 July 2026.

How does Veigar rank?

Every role we recorded Veigar in on patch 16.14, scored or not. Win impact is measured against the average pick in that role on the same patch, and a role needs 30 recorded games before it is scored.

Veigar by role

mid B +0.6 wins per 100 games (range -1.2 to 2.5) 805 games Pooled: 52 805 games
bot B +0.9 wins per 100 games (range -1.0 to 2.9) 632 games Pooled: 54 632 games
support C +0.1 wins per 100 games (range -2.0 to 2.2) 94 games Pooled: 46 94 games
top C 0.0 wins per 100 games (range -2.1 to 2.2) 54 games Pooled: 45 54 games
jungle not enough games yet. 2 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 2 games

Why no share of wins on this page says a build is good for Veigar

A finished item set is read at the end of the game. A player who bought the first two items and lost at twenty minutes never finished the set, so they are not in its row. Everybody in the row lasted long enough to buy it, and lasting is most of what winning looks like. The share those games won is pushed up by that on its own, before the items do anything at all, and the push is largest on the most expensive builds and backwards on the ones you buy when a game is going badly.

We know the size of it. In simulation, with every item's real effect set to exactly zero, an item read at the end of the game shows about 92% as a sixth completed item. A defensive item with a real 5 point benefit shows about 20 points the wrong way, because it gets bought when a player is behind. The measurement is here.

So this page counts and labels rather than ranks. The estimate that answers the real question is taken at the moment of the buy, from the state the purchase happened in, and it runs in the desktop app because it needs the game in front of it.