Aphelios vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Aphelios
based on 1,183 Aphelios vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Ziggs
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Aphelios vs. Ziggs matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ziggs..
Aphelios usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Ziggs. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Ziggs?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually fairs equally well when taking on Ziggs, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Aphelios makes an ok counter to Ziggs.
While Aphelios does have a higher win rate than Ziggs, when facing one another, Aphelios also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Aphelios into Ziggsas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aphelios also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Ziggs matchups, Aphelios is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Aphelios is a decent counter to Ziggs. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to counter Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Ziggs. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Aphelios versus Ziggs build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Ziggs than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 50.5% battling Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Ziggs as Aphelios, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Aphelios vs Ziggs counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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