Support Veigar Build

Support Veigar Build.

Support Veigar build with runes and items. Support Veigar guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Support Veigar build in League of Legends Patch 26.8!

Author: Wrekah

TLDR

Starting items
Guardian's Horn should be final item in your build.
Ruby Crystal should be final item in your build.
Quick Skill Order
Veigar ability Event Horizon should be leveled first.
E
Veigar ability Baleful Strike should be leveled second.
Q
Veigar ability Dark Matter should be leveled third.
W
Final items
Ionian Boots of Lucidity should be final item in your build.
Knight's Vow should be final item in your build.
Warmog's Armor should be final item in your build.
Kaenic Rookern should be final item in your build.
Bandlepipes should be final item in your build.
Locket of the Iron Solari should be final item in your build.
Quick Runes
Major rune Guardian from Resolve tree.
Minor rune Precision.
Summoner spells
Pick Exhaust as your Summoner Spell.
Pick Flash as your Summoner Spell.

Support Veigar Runes

Resolve
Resolve major tree Grasp of the Undying rune.
Resolve major tree Aftershock rune.
Resolve major tree Guardian rune.
Resolve major tree Demolish rune.
Resolve major tree Font of Life rune.
Resolve major tree Shield Bash rune.
Resolve major tree Conditioning rune.
Resolve major tree Second Wind rune.
Resolve major tree Bone Plating rune.
Resolve major tree Overgrowth rune.
Resolve major tree Revitalize rune.
Resolve major tree Unflinching rune.
Precision
Precision minor tree Absorb Life rune.
Precision minor tree Triumph rune.
Precision minor tree Presence of Mind rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Alacrity rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Haste rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Bloodline rune.
Precision minor tree Coup de Grace rune.
Precision minor tree Cut Down rune.
Precision minor tree Last Stand rune.
Passive
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Attack Speed rune (+10% Attack Speed).
Passive tree Ability Haste rune (+8 Ability Haste).
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Move Speed rune (+2 Movement Speed).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).
Passive tree Health rune (+65 Health).
Passive tree Tenacity And Slow Resist rune (+10 Tenacity and Slow Resist).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).

Optional Summoner Spells

Heal

Heal

Good option if you want extra healing and sustain for your team. Provides movement speed burst and can be used in clutch situations.

Mark

Mark

Mark (Snowball) for more go-in potential if you want to play aggressively.

Ignite

Ignite

Offensive option and fun button to press. Reduces your going-in potential, but adds some damage and Grievious Wounds for enemy healing. Good to score some kills early.

Optional Runes

Grasp of the Undying

Grasp of the Undying

Grasp of the Undying is a solid alternative. You become more tanky over time as your HP grows, you get some sustain and you get some damage as well.

Presence of Mind

Presence of Mind

Triumph is better overall (heal + gold), but if you want to have easier time with your mana, go Presence of Mind.

Demolish

Demolish

If you are into taking objectives, you can consider taking Demolish rune. Usually it is worth it and lets you push turrets quicker. Utility slash team oriented option.

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How it works

  1. As Veigar playing a Support, your main goal is to soak up damage while protecting your carries.
  2. You offer excellent crowd control and peel, making it harder for the enemy team to reach your backline.
  3. Adapt your playstyle depending on your team's needs: either engage and start fights, or sit back and peel for your carries.
  4. Make sure to counter enemy team. Itemize defensively based on the main damage type of the enemy team.

Playstyle

  1. 🎭

    Identify your role: engage, peel, or frontline.

  2. 🛡️

    Soak damage and protect your carries. Use CC and utility to control fights.

  3. 🧰

    Adapt items to counter the enemy team.

How to play

Support Veigar

  1. Your default skill order is maxing Event Horizon (E)! Sometimes, for more damage you can max Baleful Strike (Q) first, but overall E max is much better.
  2. Thanks to your Phenomenal Evil Power (Passive), you have lots of AP, so your abilities still do solid damage.
  3. Your Primordial Burst (R) still executes people, even when playing Support Veigar build.
  4. Do not be shy and do not wait for 'special moment'. You have the best engaging tool available - your Event Horizon (E)!

Stacking

  1. Even when playing off-meta builds like Support Veigar, it's extremely important to stack and gain AP from Phenomenal Evil Power (Passive). The permanent AP matters in the long run.
  2. Max Event Horizon (E)!
  3. Your Guardian rune scales with your Passive (AP!) making it stronger.
  4. Thanks to your Passive, you have lots of AP. Your Ultimate is still a good finisher even with this build.
  5. Do not be shy and do not wait for 'special moment'. You have the best engaging tool available - your E!
  1. Identify your role within the team (engage, peel, frontline)

Adaptation

  1. If your team needs engage, go Trailblazer and Shurelya's Battlesong.
  2. Your team getting poked to death? Consider getting Redemption AND/OR Locket of the Iron Solari next.
  3. If your team needs peel, go Knight's Vow and Locket of the Iron Solari.
  4. Knight's Vow is a surprisingly good item. Buy it and use it if you have carry or bruiser/fighter who is doing well.
  5. You need to adapt your items to the game. Enemy team heavy on AP? Buy MR. They heavy on AD? Buy Armor. You need some damage? Well buy that.

Buffing your team

  1. Bandlepipes is a great utility item for engaging and buffing your auto attackers when you CC enemies.

Runes

  1. Remember that you need to keep close to your allies to trigger Guardian.
  2. Be careful to not waste Guardian randomly. Try keeping it for when you or your ally are about to take some serious damage.

Tips and Tricks

Riot

  1. Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
  2. Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
  3. Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.

Skill Order

  • Veigar [object Object] ability.
    Q
    Baleful Strike
  • Veigar [object Object] ability.
    W
    Dark Matter
  • Veigar [object Object] ability.
    E
    Event Horizon
  • Veigar [object Object] ability.
    R
    Primordial Burst

Items

Starting items
Guardian's Horn item.
Ruby Crystal item.
Boots
Mercury's Treads item.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Plated Steelcaps item.
For peel
Knight's Vow item.
Locket of the Iron Solari item.
For engage
Shurelya's Battlesong item.
Trailblazer item.
Good tank items
Warmog's Armor item.
Protoplasm Harness item.
Bandlepipes item.
Jak'Sho, The Protean item.
Good MR items
Kaenic Rookern item.
Force of Nature item.
Spirit Visage item.
Good Armor items
Randuin's Omen item.
Dead Man's Plate item.
Thornmail item.
Frozen Heart item.
Iceborn Gauntlet item.
Situational items
Liandry's Torment item.
Titanic Hydra item.
Wit's End item.
Zeke's Convergence item.
For the last fight
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Elixir of Iron item.
Elixir of Sorcery item.
Example final build
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Knight's Vow item.
Warmog's Armor item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Bandlepipes item.
Locket of the Iron Solari item.