Hecarim vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Hecarim
based on 1,321 Hecarim vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Ziggs
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Hecarim in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Hecarim against Ziggs counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between this set of champs. Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ziggs..
Hecarim usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Ziggs. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hecarim and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Ziggs?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually wins when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Hecarim makes a good counter to Ziggs.
While Hecarim does have a higher win rate compared to Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Hecarim also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Hecarim into Ziggs.
Moreover, Hecarim has only a small 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 is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Ziggs matchups, Hecarim is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Hecarim is an above average counter to Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Ziggs. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Hecarim versus Ziggs build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Ziggs than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 52.4% battling Ziggs with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Ziggs as Hecarim, Hecarim players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Hecarim vs Ziggs face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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