Irelia vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Irelia
based on 1,392 Irelia vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Ziggs
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some valuable Irelia against Ziggs matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Ziggs..
Irelia typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Ziggs. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Irelia or Ziggs?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually wins when playing against Ziggs, with a 52.7% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes a good counter to Ziggs.
While Irelia does have a higher winrate than Ziggs, when they face off with one another, Irelia also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Irelia into Ziggs.
Moreover, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Ziggs matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Irelia is an above average counter to Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia often racks up a similar amount of CS as Ziggs. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often 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 best items to have in your Irelia versus Ziggs build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Irelia used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Ziggs than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 52.7% battling Ziggs with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Ziggs as Irelia, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Irelia vs Ziggs clashes, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.7% winrate overall.
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