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.
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
The Ziggs Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ziggs sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Heimerdinger. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Heimerdinger helps Ziggs perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ziggs tries to synergize with Heimerdinger, he sees a measurable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Heimerdinger does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played alongside Heimerdinger on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Ziggs plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Ziggs in team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Ziggs that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Heimerdinger is a not very good teammate for Ziggs. By locking into the same team as Ziggs, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 46.6%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Ziggs and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a much greater difficulty compared to Ziggs. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Heimerdinger allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Ziggs players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Ziggs and Heimerdinger together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Heimerdinger ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Ziggs in order to pair well with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Ziggs and Heimerdinger synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Heimerdinger than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average win rate of 46.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Ziggs players should equip 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 players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Heimerdinger with Ziggs are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.