Veigar: free Darkness and duplicated casts

Veigar spends the opening surviving while Darkness scales into a Nexus finisher. Chemtech Duplicator is the standard pick, and drafting defensively matters. Players disagree about the damage slot: this build chooses stacking damage from two champion bodies rather than earlier generic damage.

Frozen Tomb

Game Start: If I'm in deck or in hand, summon a Stormcarved Spire with Countdown 4: Summon me.

The delayed extra champion entry provides insurance and another engine body. It takes time to arrive and a summon is not the same as playing a champion with a Play effect.

Chemtech Duplicator

When you play a spell, if you have 6+ mana gems, copy it with the same targets.

The payoff starts at six mana gems. Once active, a spell produces another cast with the same targets; until then this slot does not improve your opening.

Luden's Tempest

All of your spells and skills deal 1 extra damage.

Extra spell and Skill damage improves each eligible damage instance while the champion is present. Multi-hit effects benefit from the increase more often than a single hit.

At three stars a free Darkness is created at Round Start. Keep the champion and damage-growing tools alive so those recurring casts become a meaningful removal engine. The delayed extra champion entry supplies another body after the opening.

At six mana gems a cast is copied, and the spell-damage relic increases the eligible hits while its carrier is on board. Preserve a free cast for the threat that matters instead of spending it on a harmless unit, and do not treat the delayed summon as protection during the first round.

Once the champion levels, Darkness can target the enemy Nexus. Before then, use it to remove the threat that matters. Keep the damage-growing follower alive when its attacks can safely increase future casts; avoid losing your defensive board just to push early combat damage.

Keep early blockers, removal and ways to protect the champion. Frozen Tomb gives a delayed extra body, so Luden's Tempest can stack once both survive. Big Guns supplies damage before the champion is on board, but its Power does not multiply per copy. Players prefer different tradeoffs; neither solves the opening alone.

The Grand General's Counterplan supplies a recurring champion spell for defensive Stun. Archangel's Staff funds interaction and Guardian Angel supplies Deathless and extra Revives. Adventure difficulty stars don't match champion stars one to one. Prioritize surviving until six mana gems over drafting an aggressive support package.

I am Evil II

Round Start: Create a Darkness that costs 0 in hand.

• When will they nerf this/change it? Veigar help by u/dynastypanos, 2026-02-01, 26 points (observed 14 Oct 2026).
• What relics work for Veigar? by u/alkaaaaaa, 2025-05-17, 14 points (observed 14 Oct 2026).
• Player-submitted builds, collected 13 Oct 2026.
• Supporting champion guide, collected 13 Oct 2026.
• Champion mechanics, LoL Wiki, checked 13 Oct 2026.