Veigar

Veigar is an AP mage in the support, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a situational pick — a 49.1% win rate, 0.3% pick rate, 3,711 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Veigar is a scaling champion: comparatively weak early, but one of the strongest picks on the map once core items come online — so the plan is to survive the laning phase and take the game over late.

How Veigar wins: grouped 5-v-5 teamfights, where Veigar tips the fight, and sieging objectives and turrets with sustained pressure. The kit grades 8/10 teamfighting, 7/10 siege. Veigar grades low on roaming and split-push (2/10, 2/10), so don't take fights that turn on those dimensions.

The most-played core build is Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Luden's Echo, Stormsurge, which holds a 39.9% win rate across 198 games this patch. The build above re-optimizes once you lock in the enemy composition.

The matchup to respect is Jinx, where Veigar sits at just 40.8%, the lane swings the other way into Thresh (52.1%), and on the team side, Veigar gains the most from a Vayne (+8.9% pair win rate).