Ziggs vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Ziggs
based on 811 Ziggs vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Alistar
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Ziggs vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Ziggs vs. Alistar counter statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Ziggs often has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Alistar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ziggs and Alistar
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Alistar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually fairs equally well when playing against Alistar, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes an ok counter for Alistar.
While Ziggs does have a higher win rate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ziggs into Alistar.
Furthermore, Ziggs has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Alistar matchups, Ziggs is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Ziggs is a decent counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ziggs against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ziggs to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs often accumulates much more CS as Alistar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Ziggs versus Alistar build consist of Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Alistar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when playing against Alistar with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Alistar as Ziggs, Ziggs players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Ziggs vs Alistar counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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