Ziggs vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Ziggs
based on 1,097 Ziggs vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Ziggs vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Ziggs in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several valuable Ziggs against Illaoi matchup stats that may help you explain the differences between these two champions. For instance, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Illaoi..
Ziggs typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ziggs and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Illaoi?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually fairs equally well when playing against Illaoi, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Ziggs makes an ok counter to Illaoi.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate compared to Illaoi, when facing one another, Ziggs also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ziggs into Illaoi.
Additionally, Ziggs has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ziggs is a somewhat poor counter for Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Ziggs versus Illaoi build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Illaoi than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 49.4% battling Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Illaoi as Ziggs, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Ziggs vs Illaoi battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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