Veigar with Xerath
How to Synergize Veigar and Xerath
based on 2,986 Veigar with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Veigar Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Xerath Counter Build
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Core Veigar Items
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Xerath
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 Understand How Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Veigar Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Veigar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xerath helps Veigar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is an ally to Xerath, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This change may signal that Xerath does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played alongside Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xerath.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Xerath on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Veigar in team fights.
Synergies between Veigar and Xerath
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no one best champion pairing for Veigar that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Xerath is a not very good ally for Veigar. By locking into the same side as Veigar, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 47.7%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Veigar and Xerath that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Veigar. That means Veigar players should be cautious when lining up Xerath comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Veigar and Xerath together, you may not be giving your side a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Veigar in order to work well with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Veigar and Xerath synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Xerath than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 47.7% helping carry Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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