Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Kai'Sa vs. Ziggs matchup stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ziggs..
Kai'Sa usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes more damage than Ziggs. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes an ok counter to Ziggs.
While Kai'Sa does have a higher winrate compared to Ziggs, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kai'Sa into Ziggs.
Additionally, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Ziggs matchups, Kai'Sa is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a decent counter to Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Ziggs.
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ziggs. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus Ziggs build include Stormrazor, Nashor's Tooth, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Ziggs than with most other common builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 50.2% when countering Ziggs with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Ziggs as Kai'Sa, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Ziggs LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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