Veigar·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Veigar Top 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. Right now, this build has 52.5% winrate over 280 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Summon Aery as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Gathering Storm in the primary tree, and Legend: Haste with Cut Down 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 Winter's Approach as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and Rabadon's Deathcap as a third item. You want to finish the build with Void Staff, Zhonya's Hourglass and Frozen Heart. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 54.0% win rate across 63 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Veigar Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight 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 Archangel's Staff as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Rabadon's Deathcap as third item. The last 3 options are Void Staff, Banshee's Veil and Stormsurge. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 52.9% win rate over 51 matches played.

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 take 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.