Ziggs vs Xerath
How to Beat Xerath as Ziggs
based on 2,405 Ziggs vs Xerath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Xerath Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xerath as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Xerath
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 Xerath
Xerath's range can be intimidating, but most champions who close distance with him can trade favorably.
Banshee's Veil will make it much harder for Xerath to land Shocking Orb on you.
Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
Ziggs vs Xerath Counter Stats
How to Counter Xerath with Ziggs in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several strategic Ziggs versus Xerath counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the two. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xerath’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Xerath..
Ziggs normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Xerath. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Xerath
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Xerath?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when trying to fight Xerath, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes a bad counter for Xerath.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate than Xerath, when on opposite teams, Ziggs also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ziggs into Xerath.
Furthermore, Ziggs has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xerath. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a lower 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 bad counter to Xerath. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ziggs against Xerath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ziggs to counter Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs typically racks up more CS relative to Xerath. Champs who typically don't get much CS 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, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Ziggs versus Xerath build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Ziggs incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Xerath than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 47.4% battling Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Xerath 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 runes that we analyzed for Ziggs vs Xerath clashes, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
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