Ziggs vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Ziggs
based on 718 Ziggs vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Ziggs vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Ziggs in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Ziggs against Kassadin counter stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kassadin..
Ziggs normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Kassadin. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ziggs and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Kassadin?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when trying to fight Kassadin, with a 43.0% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes a poor counter for Kassadin.
While Ziggs does have a much lower win rate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Ziggs into Kassadin.
Furthermore, Ziggs has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Ziggs is a garbage counter for Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ziggs to counter Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs often racks up a similar amount of CS as Kassadin. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Ziggs versus Kassadin build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Kassadin than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 43.0% battling Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Kassadin as Ziggs, Ziggs players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ziggs vs Kassadin face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.0% win rate overall.
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