Viktor vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Viktor
based on 767 Viktor vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Ziggs
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Viktor in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some strategic Viktor versus Ziggs counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ziggs..
Viktor normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ziggs. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Viktor and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Viktor or Ziggs?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Viktor usually loses when facing off against Ziggs, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Viktor makes a bad counter to Ziggs.
While Viktor does have a lower winrate than Ziggs, when they face off with one another, Viktor also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Viktor into Ziggsas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Viktor 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 facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Ziggs matchups, Ziggs is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Viktor is a somewhat poor counter for Ziggs. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Viktor against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Viktor to counter Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Ziggs. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Viktor versus Ziggs build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Ziggs than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Viktor boasted an average win rate of 48.2% battling Ziggs with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Ziggs as Viktor, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Viktor vs Ziggs counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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