Ziggs vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Ziggs
based on 2,604 Ziggs vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Ziggs vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown here show several influential Ziggs against Kayn matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the two. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayn’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kayn..
Ziggs usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kayn. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ziggs and Kayn
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Kayn?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually fairs equally well when taking on Kayn, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Ziggs makes an ok counter to Kayn.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate than Kayn, when facing one another, Ziggs also has a much 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 Kayn.
Furthermore, Ziggs also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Kayn matchups, Kayn is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a somewhat poor counter for Kayn. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Kayn.
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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 Kayn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs typically gets much more CS compared to Kayn. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Ziggs versus Kayn build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Kayn than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 49.0% when playing against Kayn with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Kayn 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 runes players used for Ziggs vs Kayn face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
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