Illaoi vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Illaoi
based on 1,097 Illaoi vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Ziggs
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some influential Illaoi against Ziggs counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ziggs..
Illaoi usually has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she takes more damage than Ziggs. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Ziggs?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when taking on Ziggs, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Ziggs.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate compared to Ziggs, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Ziggs.
Moreover, Illaoi also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Ziggs matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Ziggs. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Illaoi 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Ziggs. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Illaoi versus Ziggs build consist of Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Ziggs than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 50.6% when countering Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Ziggs as Illaoi, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Illaoi vs Ziggs LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ziggs as Illaoi are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.