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.
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.
The Veigar Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xin Zhao helps Veigar perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Veigar tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played together with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Veigar plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Veigar during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Veigar that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a decent ally for Veigar. By locking into the same side as Veigar, he improves their win rate by 2.4% to 51.7%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Veigar and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Veigar. That means Veigar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Xin Zhao teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Veigar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Veigar and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be providing your team much tankyness. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to work well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Veigar and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Veigar incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other common item sets. In fact, Veigar boasted an average win rate of 51.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Veigar players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.7% winrate overall.
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