Azir vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Azir
based on 927 Azir vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Ziggs
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some important Azir against Ziggs counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ziggs..
Azir usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ziggs. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Azir or Ziggs?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ziggs, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes an ok counter for Ziggs.
While Azir does have a higher win rate compared to Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Azir into Ziggsas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Azir also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This 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 Azir vs Ziggs matchups, Azir is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Azir is a decent counter to Ziggs. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Ziggs. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Azir versus Ziggs build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Ziggs than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 50.8% battling Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Ziggs as Azir, Azir players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Azir vs Ziggs counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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