Heimerdinger vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Heimerdinger
based on 1,017 Heimerdinger vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Ziggs
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats provided here show some influential Heimerdinger vs. Ziggs counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ziggs..
Heimerdinger often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Ziggs?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually loses when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Heimerdinger makes a poor counter for Ziggs.
While Heimerdinger does have a lower winrate than Ziggs, when facing one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Heimerdinger into Ziggsas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Heimerdinger also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Heimerdinger is a somewhat poor counter for Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to counter Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Ziggs. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Heimerdinger versus Ziggs build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Ziggs than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 48.9% battling Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Ziggs as Heimerdinger, Heimerdinger players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Heimerdinger vs Ziggs matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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