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.
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.
The Xin Zhao Veigar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Veigar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xin Zhao sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Veigar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Veigar helps Xin Zhao perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is paired with Veigar, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Veigar supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played with Veigar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Veigar.
Additionally, when Xin Zhao plays with Veigar on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Veigar does a poor job of covering Xin Zhao in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Xin Zhao that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Veigar is a very typical ally for Xin Zhao. By playing on the same team as Xin Zhao, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 51.7%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Xin Zhao and Veigar that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Veigar has a much greater difficulty compared to Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players should be careful when finding Veigar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Xin Zhao and Veigar together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much engage potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Veigar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to work well with Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Xin Zhao and Veigar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Veigar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average winrate of 51.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Veigar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Xin Zhao players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.7% winrate overall.
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