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.
Taste Their Fear deals bonus damage to targets that are isolated. Gain an advantage by fighting near allied minions, champions, or turrets.
Leap and Void Assault have long cooldowns. Kha'Zix is very vulnerable when these are not available.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several strategic Veigar against Kha'Zix matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kha'Zix’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kha'Zix..
Veigar typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Kha'Zix. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually loses when taking on Kha'Zix, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a poor counter to Kha'Zix.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate compared to Kha'Zix, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Kha'Zixas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kha'Zix. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Kha'Zix matchups, Kha'Zix is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Veigar is a somewhat poor counter to Kha'Zix. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Kha'Zix.
If you would like to truly master Veigar to counter Kha'Zix during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar on average gets much more CS compared to Kha'Zix. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Veigar versus Kha'Zix build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Veigar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Kha'Zix than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Kha'Zix with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Kha'Zix as Veigar, you should take 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 Kha'Zix counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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