Veigar vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Veigar
based on 2,123 Veigar vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Xayah
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.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
Advice to Win Against Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Veigar vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some vital Veigar against Xayah matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xayah..
Veigar often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Xayah
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Who is Better, Veigar or Xayah?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Xayah, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes an ok counter for Xayah.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate than Xayah, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Xayahas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Xayah matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter for Xayah. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar to counter Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Xayah. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Veigar versus Xayah build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Xayah than with most other common item sets. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Xayah with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Xayah as Veigar, Veigar players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Veigar vs Xayah matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Veigar are given for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.