Katarina vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Katarina
based on 1,998 Katarina vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Ziggs
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several significant Katarina vs. Ziggs counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ziggs. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Katarina or Ziggs?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when taking on Ziggs, with a 53.7% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a great counter for Ziggs.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate than Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Katarina into Ziggsas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Ziggs matchups, Katarina 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 teamfights.
Katarina is a great counter for Ziggs. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ziggs. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Katarina versus Ziggs build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Ziggs than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 53.7% battling Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Ziggs as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Katarina vs Ziggs LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.7% winrate overall.
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