Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
The stats shown on this page show some critical Zeri vs. Blitzcrank matchup statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Blitzcrank’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Blitzcrank. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zeri typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Blitzcrank. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zeri usually loses when taking on Blitzcrank, with a 43.4% win rate. Therefore, Zeri makes a bad counter to Blitzcrank.
While Zeri does have a much lower win rate than Blitzcrank, when facing one another, Zeri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more difficult champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Zeri into Blitzcrank.
Furthermore, Zeri also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zeri is a bad counter for Blitzcrank. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zeri against Blitzcrank.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zeri in order to counter Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri typically gets much more CS as Blitzcrank. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zeri versus Blitzcrank build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Experimental Hexplate, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Zeri incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did much better versus Blitzcrank than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zeri boasted an average winrate of 43.4% when countering Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Blitzcrank as Zeri, Zeri players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Zeri vs Blitzcrank clashes, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.4% win rate overall.
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