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Glacial Augment
Immobilizing an enemy champion will cause 3 glacial rays to emanate from them towards you and other nearby champions, creating frozen zones for 3 (+ the immobilizing effect's duration) seconds that slow enemies for 20% (+90% per 100% Heal and Shield Power) (+6% per 100 Ability Power) (+7% per 100 bonus Attack Damage) and reduce their damage by 15% against your allies (not including yourself).
Cooldown: 25sWhy?
Glacial Augment on Veigar open you up to a build where you can build Twin Shadow and GLP to set yourself and team up for a controlled teamfight.
Triple Tonic
Upon reaching level 3, gain an Elixir of Avarice.
Upon reaching level 6, gain an Elixir of Force.
Upon reaching level 9, gain an Elixir of Skill.Why?
Perfect Timing doubles down on your ability to stay safe in lane and scale into the mid to late game. After using your Stopwatch, don't be afraid to sell the broken watch for a bit of extra gold to hit an earlier Deathcap.
Jack Of All Trades
For each different stat gained from items, gain one Jack stack. Each stack grants you
1 Ability Haste .
Gain 10 or 25 bonusAdaptive Force at 5 and 10 stacks, respectively.Why?
Minion Dematerializer is great for patching up Veigar's weak early game wave clear so that you can match roams with the enemy mid for jungle skirmishes.
Cosmic Insight
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18 Summoner Spell Haste
+10 Item HasteWhy?
Cosmic Insight further empowers your ability to stay safe in lane with short Summoner Cooldowns and the extra bit of CDR helps you to build your stacks even quicker.
Taste of Blood
Heal when you damage an enemy champion.
Healing: 16-40 (+0.1 bonus AD, +0.05 AP) health (based on level)
Cooldown: 20sWhy?
Taste of Blood empowers your ability to healthily sustain the laning phase so you can build your passive stacks and scale into your mid-game 2 item power-spike.
Cheap Shot
Damaging champions with impaired movement or actions deals 10 - 45 bonus true damage (based on level).
Cooldown: 4sActivates on damage occurring after the impairment. Why?
Ingenious Hunter is especially good on this Glacial Augment build as it will drastically reduce the cooldown of your 2 primary items; Twin Shadows and Hextech GLP
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Dark Harvest
Damaging a Champion below 50% health deals
adaptive damage and harvests their soul, permanently increasing Dark Harvest's damage by 11.
Dark Harvest damage: 30 (+11 damage per soul) (+0.1 bonus AD) (+0.05 AP)
Cooldown: 35s (resets to 1.0s on takedown)Why?
Dark Harvest synergizes extremely well with Veigar's 1-shot burst nature, massively empowering your already strong [R] execute.
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Cheap Shot
Damaging champions with impaired movement or actions deals 10 - 45 bonus true damage (based on level).
Cooldown: 4sActivates on damage occurring after the impairment. Why?
If you successfully hit your target with [E] the bonus True Damage will help secure the kill before they even come out of the stun.
Ghost Poro
When your wards expire, they leave behind a Ghost Poro, which grants vision for 90s. Nearby enemy champions scare the Ghost Poro away.
Gain anadaptive bonus of 1.2 Attack Damage or 2 Ability Power for every Ghost Poro spawned and when your Ghost Poro spots an enemy champion up to 10 stacks.
After gaining 10 stacks, additionally gain 10 adaptive force.Why?
Keeping wards up on the sides of lane is one of the most important things you can do as a mid-laner. Ghost Poro, while small, provides very reliable vision. If you'd prefer to go all-out on damage instead of safety, take Grisly Mementos instead.
Treasure Hunter
Gain an additional
50 gold the next time you collect a Bounty Hunter stack. Increase the gold gained by20 gold for each Bounty Hunter stack, up to130 gold .
Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.Why?
The Spell vamp from Ravenous Hunter **scales incredibly well with Veigar's natural high damage** scaling, allowing you to survive tough fights. Another great option for getting into [E] range is the bonus Movement Speed from Relentless Hunter.
Gathering Storm
Every 10 min gain AP or AD,
adaptive .
10 min: + 8 AP or 5 AD
20 min: + 24 AP or 14 AD
30 min: + 48 AP or 29 AD
40 min: + 80 AP or 48 AD
50 min: + 120 AP or 72 AD
60 min: + 168 AP or 101 AD
etc...Why?
Veigar is the master of **AP scaling** and Gathering Storm is the ultimate scaling rune. If you'd prefer to have a stronger early game, take Scorch instead.
Manaflow Band
Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.
After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 15 secondsWhy?
Manaflow Band allows you to sustain in the early laning phase so that you're able to build up stacks and scale your AP into the mid game.