Akshan vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Akshan
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Akshan vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Ziggs
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Akshan vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Akshan in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some valuable Akshan against Ziggs matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between these two champions. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Ziggs. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akshan typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Ziggs?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually wins when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a great counter to Ziggs.
While Akshan does have a higher win rate than Ziggs, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Akshan into Ziggs.
Additionally, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Ziggs matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Akshan is a great counter for Ziggs. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan to counter Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Ziggs. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Akshan versus Ziggs build include Wit's End, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better countering Ziggs than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 53.3% when countering Ziggs with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Ziggs as Akshan, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Akshan vs Ziggs counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.3% win rate overall.
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