Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
The stats provided here clarify some valuable Blitzcrank against Zeri counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zeri’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zeri. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Blitzcrank typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zeri. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Blitzcrank usually wins when taking on Zeri, with a 56.6% win rate. Thus, Blitzcrank makes a fantastic counter to Zeri.
While Blitzcrank does have a much higher winrate than Zeri, when facing one another, Blitzcrank also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Blitzcrank into Zeri.
Moreover, Blitzcrank also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zeri. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank vs Zeri matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Blitzcrank is a great counter to Zeri. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Blitzcrank against Zeri.
If you would like to truly master Blitzcrank in order to counter Zeri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Blitzcrank often picks up a lot less CS as Zeri. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Blitzcrank versus Zeri build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Blitzcrank combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Zeri than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Blitzcrank boasted an average win rate of 56.6% when countering Zeri with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Zeri as Blitzcrank, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Blitzcrank vs Zeri clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 56.6% win rate overall.
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