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.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several significant Ziggs against Zeri matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zeri’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zeri..
Ziggs usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Zeri. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually fairs equally well when taking on Zeri, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes an ok counter to Zeri.
While Ziggs does have a higher winrate compared to Zeri, when on opposite teams, Ziggs also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ziggs into Zeri.
Furthermore, Ziggs also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zeri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Zeri matchups, Ziggs is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a decent counter for Zeri. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ziggs against Zeri.
To truly master Ziggs to counter Zeri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Zeri. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly 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 exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Ziggs versus Zeri build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Zeri than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ziggs had an average win rate of 50.4% battling Zeri with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Zeri as Ziggs, Ziggs players 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 runes players chose for Ziggs vs Zeri fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
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