Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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 stat comparisons provided here clarify some critical Nidalee against Ziggs matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ziggs..
Nidalee normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Ziggs.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Ziggsas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This 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 in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Ziggs matchups, Ziggs is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Ziggs. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Ziggs.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee 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 listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually gets a lot less CS relative to Ziggs. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nidalee versus Ziggs build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Ziggs than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 47.7% when playing against Ziggs with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Ziggs as Nidalee, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nidalee vs Ziggs counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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