Been main mid lane Ziggs for a while now and suddenly seeing all these complaints, and this odd Ziggs bot lane that I feel I should try now hehe. First of all, no if you are getting killed by his ult alone at Baron then you are doing Baron WAY too early and don't have any sort of healing cause it's not as powerful as you think. It's about 300 base dmg plus AP which about the time Baron first shows up maybe a good AP Ziggs is looking at a total of 450-550 total dmg on that ult. Secondly no he can't 2 shot a tower, not until about 35-45 minutes in and full build and trust me by then vanye and every other ADC can do about the same. Third complaint there.....yeah, I get away a lot from ganks like that, W to blow myself away, E to drop behind me and slow you down but guess what, that only works on champs WITHOUT DASHES OR CHARGES, so Yasuo, Vi, Shyv, Fiora, Zed, Zac, Jax, Yi, and a long list of others all have a way to get to me after I try and get away. Not to mention the ones like Lux who can stop me in my tracks afterwards.
If anything I think Ziggs needs a bit of a buff in 1 particular department, Self Healing. I've played against many different mid lane mages and ALL seem to have some kind of self healing worked into a spell now since the big AP item rework that they get a good bit just from spells. Ryze, Ahri, Akali, and Swain just to name a few who have spells that can heal them in their abilities freely. Ziggs has nothing for healing and if you go for healing you have 2 options and 2 only, Rod of Ages which has a supposed cap at 25 per spell used, so it's a very low heal with a minimum 3-4 second CD just on his Q alone and a longer CD with other spells. Or Hextech Gunblade which heals for 15% but only 33% of that 15% if it's AOE which is all of his abilities except AA and Passive, but is still MORE than the Rod of Ages. Still mage healing is nothing compared to the scaling heals the ones with built in healing gets and really nothing compared to an ADC with crit healing getting 300-400 per high crit every 1.8-2.0 attacks per second.
So don't even start complaining about Ziggs, complain about all the others who have higher AP ratios and CC and higher healing abilities before you start picking on Ziggs all cause his W can destroy a tower at 35% HP at max rank cause that's the only OP thing he's got!