Akali vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Akali
based on 3,361 Akali vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Ziggs
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Akali vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Akali in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some influential Akali vs. Ziggs matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ziggs. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akali normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Akali or Ziggs?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akali usually wins when facing off against Ziggs, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes a good counter to Ziggs.
While Akali does have a higher win rate than Ziggs, when facing one another, Akali also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Ziggsas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Ziggs matchups, Akali is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Akali is a decent counter to Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to counter Ziggs during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali typically gets a similar amount of CS as Ziggs. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Akali versus Ziggs build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Akali bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Ziggs than with many other common builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when countering Ziggs with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Ziggs as Akali, Akali players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Akali vs Ziggs counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
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