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Recommended Items
Runes: Ideal Solo Q
Sorcery
Inspiration
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor
Spells:
1
2
3
Standard scaling
Flash
Teleport
Items
Ability Order w second is more fun
Short Fuse (PASSIVE)
Ziggs Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Extreme
Major
Even
Minor
Tiny
None
Low
Ok
Strong
Ideal
Pyke
freelo if they land stuff. you can e q auto anything cc'd and w them backwards or yourself forwards to get the kill
Ideal
Strong
Ok
Low
None
Pyke
freelo if they land stuff. you can e q auto anything cc'd and w them backwards or yourself forwards to get the kill
Champion Build Guide
Introduction
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Why play ziggs
He is cute
Strengths:
1.

2. You can play from two screens away and avoid assassins entirely
3. Even when you are behind, you will do damage
Weaknesses:
1. Skillshots are hard to land
2. Really short
3. Games last longer, so you end up wasting more of your life playing this game
I started playing



TL;DR
Your goal should be different depending on who your support is and what the jungle matchup is. If your jungle doesn't gank or your support picked a scaling lane, you should buy
Tear of the Goddess and play for farm with
Teleport. If not, you should buy
Doran's Ring and play for lane with
Heal.
A winning bot lane matchup is any cc champion vs a weaker support+adc. Things like
Samira +
Thresh or
Draven +
Leona is not a matchup you're going to win easily and you should do your best to deny them gold by not dying. In this particular scenarion, your win condition is just scaling while denying them their win condition (snowballing through kills).
When you're playing with CC champions, it's important that you position in a way that allows you to capitalize on their engage.
Following up will allow you to easily land your
Bouncing Bomb and
Hexplosive Minefield. Your auto should be enhanced since E + Q usually resets your passive
Short Fuse unless you just used it.
After that, you can either look to
Satchel Charge them forward for the kill, or
Satchel Charge to disengage. This also has the bonus effect of pushing them through your
Hexplosive Minefield for additional damage!
When you're playing poke champions, it's important to play around your cooldowns and deny enemies the opportunity to trade back. Eventually, you can create a kill window and finish them off.
For any unwinnable matchups, you just wait for them to walk into the wave and look for
Bouncing Bomb. Make sure to save your
Satchel Charge to escape. As long as you're actively farming, you will make the game miserable for everyoen involved.




A winning bot lane matchup is any cc champion vs a weaker support+adc. Things like




When you're playing with CC champions, it's important that you position in a way that allows you to capitalize on their engage.
Following up will allow you to easily land your



After that, you can either look to



When you're playing poke champions, it's important to play around your cooldowns and deny enemies the opportunity to trade back. Eventually, you can create a kill window and finish them off.
For any unwinnable matchups, you just wait for them to walk into the wave and look for


Runes



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AP/AP and Armor/Magic Resist shards based on match up.
Items


If you're the only source of Ability Power on your team or the enemy team drafted mostly carries, this opens up







To be honest, if you're forced to build





I absolutely hate to say this, but buying Pink Wards means you're not spending gold on damage. If you're playing competetively, clash or 5s I would buy at least one


Magic Penetration is extremely important on mages. When you buy



This is a pretty good item on far-casting mages, but the stats aren't very good right now compared to other items we can build.

If you're forced to build Anti-Heal it usually just means your team isn't very good. This is a must purchase if you're playing against the holy grail of healing champions,
































Combos
1.
Hexplosive Minefield +
Bouncing Bomb + Auto Attack
When you notice the enemy going up to last hit, you'll have a general idea of where they'll be and when. This is a relatively easy combo that does good burst damage. You want to use
Hexplosive Minefield first because it's easier to land and slows the enemy. Follow with
Bouncing Bomb then auto before disengaging. Using both these abilities should give you access to
Short Fuse.
2.
Bouncing Bomb +
Satchel Charge
This is your max-range combo, you can lead with
Bouncing Bomb then
Satchel Charge them into the bomb. This is an easy combo to perform if you practice.
3.
Hexplosive Minefield +
Satchel Charge
This combo is about utilizing your
Satchel Charge to push them through multiple mines from your
Hexplosive Minefield. It's important to recognize that using your
Satchel Charge aggressively means you'll be vulnerable for the entirety of the cooldown.


When you notice the enemy going up to last hit, you'll have a general idea of where they'll be and when. This is a relatively easy combo that does good burst damage. You want to use



2.


This is your max-range combo, you can lead with


3.


This combo is about utilizing your



KOREAN PLAYERS
Playing in the Korea server is a really good option for
Ziggs. Korean players (even in low elo) are more teamfight orientated, and they don't mind playing tanks with cc to be able to win the game. This is a meta that
Ziggs thrives in.
Here are some korean
Ziggs players that we can maybe learn from.
korean ziggs #1
They are 3x master tier in Korea. They've been playing
Ziggs since season 3. They also stream at twitch.tv/madziggs.
They max W second and it seems they take dark harvest and teleport as a rune. they also go bot lane every game. He starts
Tear of the Goddess and builds
Lost Chapter. Then builds it into a
Luden's Tempest.
After boots, they upgrade the
Tear of the Goddess into
Seraph's Embrace. Then they build
Void Staff.
maybe a
Zhonya's Hourglass if they are dying too much. In North America, bot lane may not be viable as some solo queue players are adamant on picking ap champions regardless of draft.
Magic resist items are currently BROKEN. Avoid triple AP+.
korean ziggs #2
They play
Ziggs bot as well. It seems that they start
Doran's Ring and then build
Liandry's Anguish. Afterwards they build
Demonic Embrace and then zhonyas/void staff.
They seem to max E second, which is good for zoning for objectives. This player likely plays slow and safe.


Here are some korean

korean ziggs #1
They are 3x master tier in Korea. They've been playing

They max W second and it seems they take dark harvest and teleport as a rune. they also go bot lane every game. He starts



After boots, they upgrade the



maybe a

Magic resist items are currently BROKEN. Avoid triple AP+.
korean ziggs #2
They play




They seem to max E second, which is good for zoning for objectives. This player likely plays slow and safe.
finishing thoughts
thank you so much for reading my guide!! if you have any questions, feel free to comment!
i've been an avid
Ziggs player for a really long time, so im so happy that you read this guide and you're willing to try ziggs out in any game mode. i think he's not the best champion, but he's definitely a pick that people don't expect and definitely not a champion that's going to be nerfed for a really long time.
roselol.com
he could potentially carry a game or stall a game long enough so people can carry and not a lot of people expect his damage. there's times where i solo kill my lane every game and people get confused by ziggs range or damage, and allchat about how op it is. i hope that your ziggs journey is nice and smooth and i wish you the best of luck against all the assassins in the meta.
i've been an avid

roselol.com
he could potentially carry a game or stall a game long enough so people can carry and not a lot of people expect his damage. there's times where i solo kill my lane every game and people get confused by ziggs range or damage, and allchat about how op it is. i hope that your ziggs journey is nice and smooth and i wish you the best of luck against all the assassins in the meta.
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