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.
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
The stat comparisons shown here show some influential Ziggs against Taliyah matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taliyah..
Ziggs typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Taliyah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually wins when playing against Taliyah, with a 55.5% win rate. Therefore, Ziggs makes a fantastic counter for Taliyah.
While Ziggs does have a much higher winrate than Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Ziggs into Taliyah.
Moreover, Ziggs has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Taliyah matchups, Ziggs is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Ziggs is a great counter for Taliyah. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ziggs against Taliyah.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs in order to counter Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Taliyah. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ziggs versus Taliyah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Taliyah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 55.5% when playing against Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Taliyah 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 we have analyed for Ziggs vs Taliyah counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.5% winrate overall.
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