Zed vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Zed
based on 1,829 Zed vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Ziggs
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some valuable Zed versus Ziggs matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ziggs. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Ziggs. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Zed or Ziggs?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Zed makes an ok counter to Ziggs.
While Zed does have a higher winrate compared to Ziggs, when facing one another, Zed also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zed into Ziggsas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Ziggs matchups, Zed is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zed is a decent counter for Ziggs. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed to counter Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Ziggs. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Zed versus Ziggs build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Ziggs than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Ziggs as Zed, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Zed vs Ziggs counters, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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