Ziggs vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Ziggs
based on 3,361 Ziggs vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Akali
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.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Ziggs vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Ziggs in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several vital Ziggs versus Akali counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between the pair. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali..
Ziggs typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Akali. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Akali
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when taking on Akali, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes a poor counter to Akali.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Ziggs also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Ziggs into Akali.
Furthermore, Ziggs also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ziggs is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. Focus your tactics 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 Ziggs against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs in order to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Akali. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ziggs versus Akali build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Akali than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 48.1% battling Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Akali as Ziggs, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Ziggs vs Akali counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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