Leona with Ziggs
How to Synergize Leona and Ziggs
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Leona Ziggs Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Leona with Ziggs
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Understand How Ziggs Will Play
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.
Leona Ziggs Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ziggs as Leona in LoL
The Leona Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ziggs. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ziggs helps Leona perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona plays on the same team as Ziggs, she gets a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Ziggs doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Ziggs. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Ziggs.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Ziggs on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Ziggs does a poor job of covering Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Ziggs?
There is no ideal synergy for Leona that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, Ziggs is a not very good companion for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 50.2%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Leona and Ziggs that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Ziggs has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Ziggs allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Leona and Ziggs together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Ziggs ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona to work well with Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Leona and Ziggs synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Ziggs than with many other common item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Ziggs with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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