Normally, when a new LoL character is released, its win rate will be quite low. The reason is because Riot often puts many strange mechanisms and effects on new champions and players need time to adapt to that. So when a new champion comes out with an outstandingly high win rate (over 50%) like in the case of Zeri, we understand that this is a character that is too unbalanced and needs to be corrected.
When Zeri just debuted, the win rate is too big
As a result, in the newly released version 12.4, Zeri will be heavily nerfed in both basic skills and basic attacks when damage and versatility are reduced. This will most likely make Zeri no longer able to deal superior damage compared to other critical ADCs even though she is full of Gladiator items. However, for the former T1 expert, who is currently the coach of Cloud9 – LS, the nerfs that Zeri will have to receive will still be a lot and she will easily fall into the same situation as Akali.
LS thinks that Zeri is easy to fall into the tragic situation that Akali was in
LS: “First we need to agree that Zeri is a new champion that is too strong, even too damage to be released. And then 12.4 came out and completely nerfed her so I think Zeri won’t be the go-to pick in the pro environment anymore, but Zeri is a very strong champion in the Singles lane and sooner or later gamers will find this out.
And then it made me have another worry that when Zeri becomes too strong in Singles, Riot will continue to nerf this champion. They can even nerf Zeri to the point where he can no longer play as ADC. Maybe its future will be just like Akali, nerf a little bit until Zeri is too weak and difficult to use well.
Recently, Akali continued to be indirectly nerfed when the gameplay of Accelerated Armor was no longer strong
With League of Legends gamers, we are not too unfamiliar with the joke “generals A, B are too strong, must nerf Akali”. The reason is because in the past, Riot often nerfed champions in their updates regardless of the meta. As a result, after a while, Akali became too weak and Riot had to buff this champion a bit and then … reduce the power again in the following versions. Needless to say, Akali is a symbol of Riot Games’ struggling to balance champions.
Zeri is most likely in a similar situation when she has too much mobility, terrible damage even on all Gladiator items. Even with permission, Zeri continuously appeared at the tournament with consecutive Pentakills. It won’t be too surprising if in versions 12.5, 12.6… Zeri will fall into a state of being nerfed a little bit each and gradually become extremely “waste”.
If Zeri continues to abuse her Gladiator items like she is now, she’ll be nerfed for a long time
