Ziggs vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Ziggs
based on 2,161 Ziggs vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Ziggs vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Ziggs in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several influential Ziggs versus Kai'Sa matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kai'Sa..
Ziggs usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Kai'Sa. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ziggs and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Kai'Sa?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kai'Sa, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Ziggs makes an ok counter for Kai'Sa.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate compared to Kai'Sa, when on opposite teams, Ziggs also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ziggs into Kai'Sa.
Moreover, Ziggs has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Kai'Sa matchups, Kai'Sa is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a somewhat poor counter for Kai'Sa. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ziggs against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ziggs to counter Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kai'Sa. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Ziggs versus Kai'Sa build include Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Kai'Sa than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 49.8% battling Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Kai'Sa as Ziggs, Ziggs players should take 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 combinations we have analyed for Ziggs vs Kai'Sa LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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