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.
Ashe has very few defensive options, and she's a good target to gank.
Be wary of moving around the map alone if Ashe has not recently cast her Enchanted Crystal Arrow.
The stats shown here clarify several important Ziggs versus Ashe counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ashe’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ashe..
Ziggs usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ashe. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ashe, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes an ok counter to Ashe.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate than Ashe, when facing one another, Ziggs also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Ziggs into Ashe.
Furthermore, Ziggs has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ashe. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Ashe matchups, Ashe is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a somewhat poor counter for Ashe. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Ashe.
To truly master Ziggs to counter Ashe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Ashe. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Ziggs versus Ashe build consist of Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Ashe than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 49.5% when playing against Ashe with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Ashe as Ziggs, Ziggs players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ziggs vs Ashe counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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