What is the best build for Ziggs?

We do not publish a best build for Ziggs, and the reason is worth thirty seconds. The most recorded Ziggs bot build on patch 16.14 is Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame and Luden's Echo, in 400 games. A finished item set is read at the end of the game, so a build only appears once the game ran long enough to buy it, and a game that runs long is usually a game you were winning. Any share of wins taken from those games leans high for that reason on its own, which is why there is not one in this answer. The page lists every recorded build with the games behind it.

What are the best runes for Ziggs?

The most recorded Ziggs bot rune page on patch 16.14 takes Arcane Comet out of Sorcery, with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch beside it and Triple Tonic and Cash Back out of Inspiration. Players who ran it won 49.1% of 1,838 games, range 46.8% to 51.4%. A rune page is locked in at champion select, so that share is not inflated by long games the way a build is, but it counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

What skill order should I use on Ziggs?

Recorded Ziggs bot players max Q, then E, then W. 734 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Ziggs build, patch 16.14

3,272 games of Ziggs recorded on patch 16.14, across bot, mid, support and top.

Win rate

49.2% of bot games this patch

Pick rate

3.9% of bot games

Games

2,985 bot, patch 16.14

Rank in role

24 of 77 bot champions

Win impact against the average bot pick on patch 16.14: -0.5 wins per 100 games (range -1.8 to 0.9) 2,985 games Pooled

What most Ziggs bot players build, patch 16.14

Build Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame and Luden's Echo, and run Arcane Comet

The rune page they run

Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Inspiration

Shards

1,838 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

The skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 734 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W. The level by level count.

400 games finished this exact set. It is the set recorded most often, which is a fact about players rather than about the items.

Share of those games that were wins, in percent 55.5% (range 50.6-60.3) · 400 games · Measured

Games that finish a build are games that lasted, and lasting usually means winning, so this figure leans high before the items do anything. It is how those games went, not what the build does to your chances. How far that can bend a number.

Ziggs bot is the role with the most recorded games on patch 16.14: 2,985 games, of which 1,470 were wins. That is the role this page leads with. Measured on this page: bot and mid, the roles that cleared 30 recorded games.

wins 0.5 per 100 vs the bot average · 2,985 games on 16.14 · first-time players measured (2,847 games) · no clear move vs 16.13 (-7.0, range -17.4 to +3.4)

The build above is the one recorded most often, nothing more. Every recorded build, with its own games and its own share, is in the build list, in the order players built them.

Why this answer

A champion and role pair needs 30 recorded games before we put a score or a win impact on it: under that, a handful of lucky games moves a win rate by ten points. The same floor applies to a single build and to a single rune page, and anything under it prints its games and no number.

The share on that figure says how the games went, not what the build does to you. Nothing on this page measures that; the method note at the end says why.

What do most Ziggs players build?

Item sets recorded on patch 16.14, most built first, never sorted by how the games went. The share is how many of a build's own games were wins; a build under 30 games shows its games and no share.

Ziggs, bot

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 8 of them cleared 30 games.

Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame and Luden's Echo
55.5% 400 games
Horizon Focus, Shadowflame and Luden's Echo
52.7% 184 games
Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame and Luden's Echo
61.1% 144 games
Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, Shadowflame and Luden's Echo
48.4% 124 games
Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, Shadowflame and Luden's Echo
44.7% 94 games
Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame and Luden's Echo
49.4% 89 games

A finished set is read at the end of the game, so every share here leans high: games that last long enough to finish a build are usually games that were already going well. How far that can bend a number.

Ziggs, mid

3 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame and Luden's Echo
not enough games yet. 29 games so far, this needs 30. 29 games
Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, Shadowflame and Luden's Echo
not enough games yet. 10 games so far, this needs 30. 10 games
Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame and Luden's Echo
not enough games yet. 9 games so far, this needs 30. 9 games

What runes do most Ziggs players run?

Whole pages that players actually ran, most recorded first. A page is locked in at champion select, so long games do not inflate its share the way they inflate a build's; it still counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Ziggs, bot

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 3 of them cleared 30 games.

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Inspiration

1,838 games

Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Inspiration

Shards

1,838 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Precision

1,015 games

First Strike Inspiration with Sorcery

99 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Arcane Comet: 48.6% 2,867 games
First Strike: 65.3% 101 games

6 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Ziggs, mid

9 complete pages were recorded in this role and 2 of them cleared 30 games.

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Precision

136 games

Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Precision

Shards

136 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Inspiration

51 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Arcane Comet: 44.2% 190 games

4 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

What skill order should I use?

Counted from recorded level-ups on patch 16.14, one player per game.

Max Q, then E, then W

734 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Ziggs bot skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 734 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W

Only 53 recorded games on patch 16.14. A soft read.

Ziggs mid skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 53 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q		Q	Q	Q		Q		Q
W		W												W	W		W	W
E								E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

When do players buy each piece?

The pieces of the most recorded Ziggs bot build, in the order players buy them. The time is the middle of the spread across every recorded game on patch 16.14, measured at the buy rather than at the end of the game: half the recorded buys of the item happen before it, half after.

Buy times, earliest first

Luden's Echo: 11:06 1,124 games
Shadowflame: 20:43 1,918 games
Rabadon's Deathcap: 25:52 1,313 games

The bar is scaled to the latest piece of the set. Each item links to its own page, where the whole spread sits beside the games behind it.

Who counters Ziggs?

The opponents Ziggs bot loses to most and the teammates Ziggs gains the most beside on patch 16.14. The chip is the edge in wins per 100 games, and the games behind it sit under the name.

Hardest opponents

82 more opponents sit under 50 games against Ziggs and are counted, not ranked. Every measured Ziggs opponent, with the full table

Best teammates

Every measured Ziggs teammate, with the full table

These numbers come from 108,616 ranked games we recorded on EUW, Korea and NA, found by following Diamond players and the people they play with. That is not every rank and it is not every region. Everything on this page is patch 16.14. Counted up to 24 July 2026.

How does Ziggs rank?

Every role we recorded Ziggs in on patch 16.14, scored or not. Win impact is measured against the average pick in that role on the same patch, and a role needs 30 recorded games before it is scored.

Ziggs by role

bot B -0.5 wins per 100 games (range -1.8 to 0.9) 2,985 games Pooled: 51 2,985 games
mid C -0.3 wins per 100 games (range -2.4 to 1.8) 245 games Pooled: 44 245 games
support not enough games yet. 24 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 24 games
top not enough games yet. 18 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 18 games

Why no share of wins on this page says a build is good for Ziggs

A finished item set is read at the end of the game. A player who bought the first two items and lost at twenty minutes never finished the set, so they are not in its row. Everybody in the row lasted long enough to buy it, and lasting is most of what winning looks like. The share those games won is pushed up by that on its own, before the items do anything at all, and the push is largest on the most expensive builds and backwards on the ones you buy when a game is going badly.

We know the size of it. In simulation, with every item's real effect set to exactly zero, an item read at the end of the game shows about 92% as a sixth completed item. A defensive item with a real 5 point benefit shows about 20 points the wrong way, because it gets bought when a player is behind. The measurement is here.

So this page counts and labels rather than ranks. The estimate that answers the real question is taken at the moment of the buy, from the state the purchase happened in, and it runs in the desktop app because it needs the game in front of it.