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 stat comparisons provided here highlight some influential Zeri against Ziggs matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Ziggs..
Zeri often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. On average, they receives more damage than Ziggs. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zeri usually fairs equally well when playing against Ziggs, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Zeri makes an ok counter for Ziggs.
While Zeri does have a lower win rate than Ziggs, when facing one another, Zeri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zeri into Ziggs.
Additionally, Zeri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Ziggs matchups, Ziggs is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zeri is a somewhat poor counter for Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zeri against Ziggs.
If you would like to truly master Zeri to counter Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Ziggs. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Zeri versus Ziggs build include Experimental Hexplate, Runaan's Hurricane, and Titanic Hydra. When Zeri used at least these three items in their build, they did much better against Ziggs than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zeri had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing against Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Ziggs as Zeri, Zeri players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Zeri vs Ziggs matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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