Bard vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Bard
based on 1,404 Bard vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Ziggs
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Bard in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some important Bard vs. Ziggs counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ziggs. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Bard or Ziggs?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Ziggs, with a 54.8% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter to Ziggs.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate compared to Ziggs, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Ziggsas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Ziggs matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter to Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Ziggs. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Bard versus Ziggs build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Ziggs than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 54.8% battling Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Ziggs as Bard, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Bard vs Ziggs LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.8% winrate overall.
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