Zeri FAQ

She's a strong pick if your team has frontline or disengage to buy her time. Zeri excels at extended fights where she can stack her passive and chain resets on her ultimate. Without peel, she gets run down by the mode's high damage and constant crowd control.

Faster gold and experience mean she hits her item spikes much earlier, turning her into a threat sooner than expected. The reduced cooldown on Snowball lets her reposition aggressively, but it also means enemies can gap-close on her more often. You play faster and die faster, so every dash matters.

Prioritize attack speed or ability haste augments to smooth out her kiting and ultimate uptime. Damage augments work well if you're confident in your spacing, but survivability augments help against heavy dive comps. Avoid pure mana augments since her costs are manageable with proper rhythm.

Auto-attack champions to build charge, then right-click a wall to dash and gain a burst of energy. Use this constantly in fights to reposition and proc the bonus damage. If you ignore walls, you lose half her mobility and damage potential.

Use your Q to poke from max range, and save your charged auto for when enemies step up. Don't spam E aggressively early—it's your only escape. If you waste it, a Snowball or engage ability will force your flash or kill you.

Dash through walls to flank or escape, and use the brief stealth to reposition unseen. In open ground, save E for dodging key abilities or chasing a low-health target. Dashing into the enemy team without a wall nearby usually gets you killed.

Activate it once you have targets to hit and can start stacking the movement speed. The longer you stay in combat, the faster and stronger you become. If you pop it too early with no one to hit, the duration wastes away while you wait for a fight.

Every takedown extends the duration, so focus targets your team can burst down quickly. Chain kills let you keep the speed and damage buff rolling through an entire teamfight. If you spread damage without securing kills, the ultimate falls off fast.

Infinity Edge or Statikk Shiv are common first rushes depending on whether you want raw damage or wave clear and burst. Attack speed items like Runaan's Hurricane help spread damage during your ultimate. Build situationally after core items—don't tunnel on a fixed path every game.

Play back and let your frontline absorb the initial cooldowns before you commit. Use walls to create distance, and save E for their key gap-closers. If they have multiple point-and-click CC options, consider an early QSS or defensive item.

You have to play much more cautiously and poke with Q until someone overextends. Look for flanks with E after the enemy burns their cooldowns, rather than fighting head-on. It's an uphill battle, so don't force even trades.

Yes, the mobility and outplay potential are too valuable to pass up. Use it to close gaps for a kill, escape over walls, or dodge critical abilities. Mark provides vision, so use it to check bushes before face-checking.

Build Blade of the Ruined King or Lord Dominik's Regards to cut through their resistances. Your sustained damage and kiting let you whittle them down over time if you stay patient. Don't dive past tanks to reach squishies—let the fight come to you.

Hard crowd control and burst damage shut her down before she can stack her ultimate. She needs time and space to ramp up, which is scarce in a mode built around constant fighting. Positioning mistakes get punished instantly.

Focus on safe poke with Q and look for cleanup opportunities rather than starting fights. Build more defensively to survive burst, and wait for enemies to make positioning errors. A single good ultimate reset can turn a losing fight, so stay ready.