Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
The stats shown on this page highlight several valuable Ahri against Ziggs matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ziggs..
Ahri often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Ziggs. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when taking on Ziggs, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a bad counter for Ziggs.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate compared to Ziggs, when facing one another, Ahri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Ahri into Ziggs.
Additionally, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Ziggs matchups, Ziggs is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ahri is a terribly counter to Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Ziggs.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to counter Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Ziggs. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Ahri versus Ziggs build consist of Luden's Tempest, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Ahri used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Ziggs than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when playing against Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Ziggs as Ahri, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Ahri vs Ziggs counters, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ziggs as Ahri are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.