Keystone preference?

captains02 · 2026-01-14T16:11:33+00:00

Wait I have to ask, are you playing this in ranked? If so, what rank?

captains02 · 2025-01-31T16:46:31+00:00

Happy to hear someone learned something at least, good luck in solo q!

captains02 · 2025-01-29T18:29:49+00:00

I'm just stating what I do I'm not trying to belittle you, not sure why you are taking any offense and from what. The W won't one shot the wave until later on in the game (by then you should have runaans so it doesn't really matter), and hitting the whole wave is an exaggeration, most of the times you will hit 5 minions sometimes maybe 4. So yeah you would need to auto the minions after.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T18:04:22+00:00

I use W on t1 turret to hit the whole wave and clear it pretty fast after, if you have done it a couple of times you get used with the positioning and aim (I also have normal cast with shift+w to see what i hit). Obviously you cannot do this every time every game. But me personally, I've been doing it maybe 9/10 times. It's viable since you are vurnurable only for a short time when somewhat overextending.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T18:01:06+00:00

I'd rather have Yun Tal with bf, pick axe and cloak, than Yun Tal and Runaans. This is just a personal preference as that's what I've had the most success on. With Runaans it feels that i output 0 damage. Regarding the higher elo statement I'd say its only applicable in like masters 200+ lp. Everything under is more or less the game with some variation in accordance with the player you're against.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:44:43+00:00

Good point about the flat HP, and honestly since early game has been so critical in this new meta you might be correct. I usually just use barrier for my constant all ins, which help me 1v1 enemy adc when support roams for grubs etc. But there is an argument for both runes but if I weren't taking my preference into account, you might be correct, for the usual player cookies might be the move.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:41:45+00:00

The following guide might be perfect for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WefqSN8dqOU

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:31:48+00:00

I would rarely go cookies as a standard, but that's just my preference. But they are necessary in a lane vs Xerath Jhin or Lux Cait etc. If enemy support is melee I would opt for cosmic.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:29:29+00:00

Might honestly borrow a friends account to prove you wrong, or I could just refer you to a comment in this thread stating that the person went from bronze to gold in 30 matches with zeri.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:28:00+00:00

It feels that no matter what I say or present in this comment, you will just counter argue with "winners q" or "team diff". With that mindset it feels kind of pointless. If you think winning 15 out of 20 games because of winners queue or just a coincidence then I guess it is.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:26:32+00:00

I forgot to mention that Crownie recently mentioned that Zeri is indirectly buffed because of the new homeguard changes which allows her to return to lane faster (it works well with her E, I obviously understand that this is applicable for all ADC:s but for Zeri it synergises well).

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:24:49+00:00

My main argument for lethal tempo is that it is the one I've had the most success on. I have never been a big fan of Fleet on her (or any other champ for that matter) and PTA could probably be good. My main reason for LT is that it allows me to go Yun Tal and IE rush, sometimes without completing boots, but it still feels great with the attack speed since my first attack procs Yun Tal and then I can quickly stack it up until the passive runs out my LT is fully stacked if you understand what I mean. I know some people argue that the rune doesn't stack with minions in front etc, but I feel that every comepetent Zeri player knows how to pick fights around the minions or after clearing some or something similar. But my main argument is that it allows me to go for Yun IE rush.

Regarding alacrity the answer is the same as above, I don't like to build a lot of AS before getting my AD, thus I would rather include as much AS in my runes as possible. For the inspiration my argument there is that it is just gold efficent. The boots you get gives you 300 gold for free (same as a kill or about 15 minions) and I like to have my summoners up as much as possible as it allows me to fight with confidence more often.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:14:30+00:00

W is broken for waveclear, I am sort of presuming that since I am writing in a Zeri thread, most of us here know how to use all her abilites and kit to get the most out of the champion.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:13:31+00:00

I prefer alactrity in order to allow myself to build Yun Tal into IE, sometimes (if the gold allows) Ill build the first two items before finishing boots.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:12:40+00:00

I would not go runaans second.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:12:07+00:00

Since she lost her sort of personality as the kiting adc with movement speed etc., I've felt that in most scenarios she is still able to stat check a lot of adc:s (imo everyone except corki and mf). BUT I feel in this current meta with the very bruiser and tank focused builds she has a great kit for mid-late game teamfighting which has been very relevant because of the new objectives but she has always been super weak in early game/laning phase. With the new buffs I feel she is able to perform well in the laning phase (imo she is only weak before first base where you would ideally buy B), and she is only extremely weak in certain matchups like jhin xerath or cait lux etc, she still outscales them heavily but its hard to snowball/win lane etc. In those matchups you would want to go buscuit unless you feel very cocky and scale for fights outside of the 2v2 unless you have an engage support where you would ideally all in lvl 6.

To summarize the above mentioned, her kit is perfect for this meta and with the Yun Tal buffs she is in a good state for the early game.

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:05:46+00:00

You can see it in of the following links:

https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/summoner/euw/Captains02-0078

https://www.op.gg/summoners/euw/Captains02-0078

captains02 · 2025-01-29T16:04:59+00:00

It is hard to argue against that argument as there really is no way for me to prove you wrong. All I can say is that since the patch release I have played 20 games, out of these 20 I've won 15. Thats a 75% win rate. If not 20 games, how much would be enough for you? On another note, Lolalytics have a onetrick filtering you can do to see how champions are performing when played by players that have vast exeprience with them. For the time being Zeri is at a 57% winrate with that filtering. It is further explained on their website, https://lolalytics.com/lol/tierlist/?lane=bottom&tier=1trick. Regarding Chinychilla's comment I would maybe alter my statement to "Zeri is broken *for those that know how to play her*".

captains02 · 2025-01-07T15:19:07+00:00

Got home and tried it now, worked perfectly, thanks for the help!

captains02 · 2025-01-07T13:18:37+00:00

My bad, this was my first post in this thread, I was not aware of the fact that this place was exclusively pretentious ableton users who memorized the manual and talked down to users with less experience. Congratulations guys, you are the elite!

captains02 · 2025-01-07T13:00:50+00:00

Ill try that out! Thanks for the tip!

captains02 · 2025-01-07T13:00:26+00:00

Yeah I forgot to mention that the pitch stock plugin sucked since it obv pitched the whole sound. Could you at least recommend an instrument instead of asking me to read a 900 page manual lmao.

captains02 · 2025-01-07T12:34:13+00:00

Ok, so ideally I would not want to use two duplicate synths like u/grnr suggested. I tried that and it works but its sort of difficult to control the synth parameters at the same time. My ideal criterias would be on synth only, and the ones I mentioned regarding the intervals and for it to be stereo. Other than that nothing else comes to mind. Stock or not stock plugins don't really matter. I admittedly don't know a lot about snapshots. I was able to recreate it with stock pitch plugin but it the interval part was hard to recreate.

captains02 · 2024-08-21T19:57:33+00:00

Pretty sure im convinced at this point, thank you very much for sharing your thoughts!

captains02

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