Xin Zhao vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Xin Zhao
based on 4,025 Xin Zhao vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xin Zhao vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Xin Zhao vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao against Veigar
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Advice to Win Against Veigar
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
Xin Zhao vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Xin Zhao in LoL
The stats provided here feature some vital Xin Zhao versus Veigar counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Veigar..
Xin Zhao often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Veigar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xin Zhao and Veigar
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Who is Better, Xin Zhao or Veigar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xin Zhao usually wins when taking on Veigar, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Xin Zhao makes a good counter for Veigar.
While Xin Zhao does have a higher winrate compared to Veigar, when facing one another, Xin Zhao also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Xin Zhao into Veigar.
Furthermore, Xin Zhao has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Veigar matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Xin Zhao is a decent counter to Veigar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Xin Zhao against Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Xin Zhao in order to counter Veigar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao typically gets a lot less CS relative to Veigar. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Xin Zhao versus Veigar build consist of Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Veigar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when playing against Veigar with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Veigar as Xin Zhao, Xin Zhao players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Xin Zhao vs Veigar counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Veigar as Xin Zhao are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.