As expected, Zeri continues to eat heavy nerfs in patch 12.7 and is becoming the “second Acuali”
Since its debut until now Zeri has quickly proven himself to be one of the strongest marksmen League of Legends. Possessing high mobility, flexible movement, and the ability to deal damage over time, Zeri quickly became a meta in the bot lane. Moreover, with the Gladiator-oriented build, defeating Zeri is not easy at all.
Zeri with the Gladiator build is an ADC that does a lot of damage and is hard to die
With so many strengths, it’s not surprising that Zeri quickly became a strong choice in both solo queue and professional tournaments. For example, with the LCK Spring 2022 just ended, in the playoffs, Zeri is one of the 5 champions with a 100% pick and ban rate with 19 bans. In a rare match, Zeri also won with an overwhelming KDA of 5/0/8.
In the LCK Spring 2022 playoffs, Zeri is one of the 5 champions with a 100% spawn rate
Once selected, Zeri destroys the opponent with KDA 5/0/8
Obviously, Riot Games will not be able to let a champion that is too strong, too mobile but extremely difficult to be defeated like Zeri continue to rampage. Therefore, in the upcoming version 12.7, Zeri will continue to be completely nerfed in all 4 of his moves. Specifically, the damage of Q – Continuous Taser and W – High Voltage Pulse will be significantly reduced. In addition, E – Lightning Fast reduces the cooldown when Q deals critical damage. With his ultimate, sparks can now critically strike but not apply on-hit effects.
Zeri since version 12.7 will have to equip crit gear to be strong, while she no longer benefits too much from attack effect items
With the above changes, we can realize the intention of Riot Games which is to nerf the entrance to the Gladiator build with the Three Hop Sword, the Great Serpent Ax, and the Black Ax. With Zeri’s ultimate no longer interacting with attack effects, this build is completely useless for this character. Instead, gamers will get more powerful effects with the critical build.
However, as we all know, crit items do not give Zeri any defense, so she is very easy to take down if she is not careful. This is an implicit nerf move by Riot to reduce this champion’s win rate as well as pick rate to a balanced threshold. So since its release in version 12.2, Zeri has paid a total of 5 nerfs (including update 12.7) in just 3 months. Needless to say, Zeri is becoming Akali second when constantly eating such nerf.
Zeri is slowly becoming the second Akali as she keeps getting nerfed
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