If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
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.
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Draven against Ziggs matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. Draven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Draven may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ziggs. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Draven typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Draven usually wins when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Draven makes a good counter for Ziggs.
While Draven does have a higher winrate compared to Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Draven also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Draven into Ziggsas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Draven has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Draven vs Ziggs matchups, Draven is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Draven is an above average counter to Ziggs. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Draven against Ziggs.
If you would like to truly master Draven in order to counter Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Draven often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Ziggs. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Draven versus Ziggs build include Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and The Collector. When Draven used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Ziggs than with many other common builds. In fact, Draven had an average winrate of 52.7% when playing against Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Ziggs as Draven, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Draven vs Ziggs matchups, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.7% winrate overall.
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