Ziggs vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Ziggs
based on 1,958 Ziggs vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Ziggs vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several influential Ziggs versus Leona matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona..
Ziggs usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Leona
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 45.0% win rate. As a result, Ziggs makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Ziggs does have a much lower winrate than Leona, when facing one another, Ziggs also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Ziggs into Leona.
Furthermore, Ziggs also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ziggs is a bad counter for Leona. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Leona.
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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 Leona 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 tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs usually picks up much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't require 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 large amounts 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 best items to focus on in your Ziggs versus Leona build include Seraph's Embrace, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Leona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ziggs had an average win rate of 45.0% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Leona as Ziggs, Ziggs players should use 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 used for Ziggs vs Leona counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.0% win rate overall.
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