Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several valuable Zeri vs. Lissandra matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Lissandra..
Zeri typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zeri usually loses when taking on Lissandra, with a 45.7% win rate. Thus, Zeri makes a poor counter for Lissandra.
While Zeri does have a much lower winrate compared to Lissandra, when facing one another, Zeri also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Zeri into Lissandra.
Additionally, Zeri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Zeri is a bad counter to Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zeri against Lissandra.
To truly master Zeri in order to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Lissandra. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zeri versus Lissandra build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Runaan's Hurricane, and Titanic Hydra. When Zeri included at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Lissandra than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zeri had an average win rate of 45.7% when playing against Lissandra with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Lissandra as Zeri, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Zeri vs Lissandra LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
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