How to win lane as Graves against Ziggs · 43.48% win rate over 23 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Ziggs | Ziggs starts Q and pokes you with bouncing bombs from beyond your point-blank shell range, and with no E to close you simply concede the level. |
| Level 2 | Ziggs | His Q out-ranges everything you have and chunks you over the wave; you still can't reach him to punish a single cast. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Your first real chance — two E charges let you Quickdraw in and burst before he can reposition, but it's a coin-flip on his Satchel Charge and positioning, so it's skill-dependent. |
| Levels 4-5 | Ziggs | His E minefield and Q poke punish every approach, and your armor stacking does nothing to blunt magic-damage chip you can't out-range. |
| Level 6 | Ziggs | Satchel Charge knockback can cancel your Level 6 all-in even when Collateral Damage threatens a kill — his disengage usually wins the exchange. |
| First item | Ziggs | The Liandry's/Blackfire siege spike lets him zone you off CS with the E minefield and out-poke every tool in your kit. |
| Two+ items | Ziggs | A farmed artillery Ziggs out-ranges you completely and his percent-health bombs shrug off your armor stacks — you can't close, so you can't win the duel. |
Levels 1-2 belong entirely to Ziggs — his Q bounces over the minion wave and out-ranges your point-blank shell spread by a screen, and with no E yet you can't ever reach him, so soak the poke and last-hit at the very tip of your range. Don't throw a naked End of the Line to trade; he sidesteps the delayed detonation and bombs you back for double. The one thing keeping you alive is that you out-sustain a single bomb and Ziggs has no real escape once you actually get on top of him — so the whole lane is about surviving to a gap-close window.
The full Graves vs Ziggs report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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