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.
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several valuable Ziggs against Yasuo matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Yasuo..
Ziggs normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Yasuo. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when playing against Yasuo, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes a bad counter for Yasuo.
While Ziggs does have a lower winrate than Yasuo, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ziggs into Yasuo.
Additionally, Ziggs also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yasuo. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Ziggs is a trash counter to Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Yasuo.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs in order to counter Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Yasuo. Champs who typically don't acquire 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Ziggs versus Yasuo build include Seraph's Embrace, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Yasuo than with many other common builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average win rate of 46.8% battling Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Yasuo as Ziggs, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Ziggs vs Yasuo matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Yasuo as Ziggs are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.