Brand vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Brand
based on 3,362 Brand vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Ziggs
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several strategic Brand versus Ziggs matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ziggs..
Brand usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Ziggs. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Brand or Ziggs?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a good counter to Ziggs.
While Brand does have a higher win rate than Ziggs, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Ziggs.
Additionally, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Ziggs matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Brand is a good counter for Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand in order to counter Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically picks up less CS compared to Ziggs. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Brand versus Ziggs build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Ziggs than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Ziggs with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Ziggs as Brand, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Brand vs Ziggs matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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