Veigar vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Veigar
based on 4,025 Veigar vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Veigar vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several strategic Veigar vs. Xin Zhao matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Veigar usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Veigar or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes a poor counter for Xin Zhao.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Veigar into Xin Zhaoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Veigar is a terribly counter to Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically accumulates much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Veigar versus Xin Zhao build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 48.0% when countering Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Xin Zhao 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 combinations players picked for Veigar vs Xin Zhao face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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