Nami vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Nami
based on 1,461 Nami vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Ziggs
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Nami in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several critical Nami vs. Ziggs matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ziggs. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nami normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Ziggs. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Nami or Ziggs?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nami usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Nami makes an ok counter to Ziggs.
While Nami does have a higher winrate compared to Ziggs, when they face off with one another, Nami also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nami into Ziggs.
Moreover, Nami has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nami vs Ziggs matchups, Nami is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nami is a decent counter to Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nami against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami in order to counter Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami on average accumulates a lot less CS compared to Ziggs. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nami versus Ziggs build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Ziggs than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 50.3% battling Ziggs with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Ziggs as Nami, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nami vs Ziggs clashes, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% win rate overall.
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