Veigar·Mid Build

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, Zhonya's Hourglass and finish with Void Staff. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 53.8% winrate over 6 559 matches played.

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. In the current patch, this build has a 52.5% win rate over 2 822 matches.

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 Void Staff, Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 56.1% win rate across 1 139 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Veigar Mid build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Gathering Storm as your primary rune tree, and Presence of Mind with Legend: Haste as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Winter's Approach 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, Zhonya's Hourglass and Dead Man's Plate. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 55.8% win rate over 932 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.