Leona vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Leona
based on 1,958 Leona vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Ziggs
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Leona in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several critical Leona vs. Ziggs matchup statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ziggs. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Leona or Ziggs?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Ziggs, with a 55.0% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a great counter for Ziggs.
While Leona does have a much higher winrate than Ziggs, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Ziggs.
Moreover, Leona also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Ziggs matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Leona is a great counter for Ziggs. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona on average picks up a lot less CS as Ziggs. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Leona versus Ziggs build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Ziggs than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 55.0% when countering Ziggs with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Ziggs as Leona, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Leona vs Ziggs clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.0% win rate overall.
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