Ziggs vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Ziggs
based on 587 Ziggs vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Zilean Counter Build
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Core Ziggs Items
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Ziggs vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several valuable Ziggs versus Zilean matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zilean..
Ziggs often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Zilean
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when playing against Zilean, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Ziggs makes a poor counter for Zilean.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate than Zilean, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ziggs into Zilean.
Furthermore, Ziggs also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a somewhat poor counter to Zilean. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs most often gets more CS relative to Zilean. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Ziggs versus Zilean build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Zilean than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average win rate of 48.6% battling Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Zilean 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 that we analyzed for Ziggs vs Zilean clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zilean as Ziggs are presented for every ranked division. To scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.