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.
Spread out when you see Sona so she can't make your entire team dance.
Kill Sona first, as she will heal up her team if left alone for too long.
The stat comparisons shown here show some valuable Ziggs against Sona counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sona..
Ziggs often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Sona. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when playing against Sona, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes a bad counter to Sona.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate than Sona, when facing one another, Ziggs also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ziggs into Sona.
Additionally, Ziggs also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This often 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 Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a bad counter for Sona. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ziggs against Sona.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to counter Sona during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs usually accumulates much more CS as Sona. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Ziggs versus Sona build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Sona than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average win rate of 47.0% when countering Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Sona 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 rune builds players used for Ziggs vs Sona matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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