Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
The stat comparisons shown here show some strategic Ziggs versus Ahri matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ahri..
Ziggs usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Ahri. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ahri, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes an ok counter for Ahri.
While Ziggs does have a higher win rate compared to Ahri, when facing one another, Ziggs also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ziggs into Ahri.
Moreover, Ziggs also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Ahri matchups, Ziggs is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Ziggs is a decent counter to Ahri. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ziggs against Ahri.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to counter Ahri during both the early game 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 stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Ahri. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale 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 situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Ziggs versus Ahri build include Seraph's Embrace, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Ahri than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Ahri with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Ahri as Ziggs, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Ziggs vs Ahri counters, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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