Thresh vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Thresh
based on 2,068 Thresh vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Ziggs
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Thresh versus Ziggs matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between these two champions. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ziggs. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Ziggs. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Thresh or Ziggs?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when taking on Ziggs, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes an ok counter for Ziggs.
While Thresh does have a higher winrate than Ziggs, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Ziggsas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Ziggs matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a decent counter to Ziggs. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh on average racks up a lot less CS as Ziggs. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Thresh versus Ziggs build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Ziggs than with most other common item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Ziggs as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Thresh vs Ziggs LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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