Nasus vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Nasus
based on 1,576 Nasus vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Ziggs
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several significant Nasus versus Ziggs matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ziggs..
Nasus often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Nasus or Ziggs?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when taking on Ziggs, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a good counter for Ziggs.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate compared to Ziggs, when facing one another, Nasus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Ziggs.
Additionally, Nasus also has only a small 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Ziggs matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nasus is a decent counter to Ziggs. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to counter Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Ziggs. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Ziggs build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Ziggs than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 51.2% battling Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Ziggs as Nasus, Nasus players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Nasus vs Ziggs clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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