When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential Zeri against Lux counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the two. Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lux’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Lux..
Zeri usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Typically, they receives more damage than Lux. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zeri usually loses when trying to fight Lux, with a 46.4% win rate. As a result, Zeri makes a poor counter for Lux.
While Zeri does have a lower winrate compared to Lux, when on opposite teams, Zeri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more difficult character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zeri into Lux.
Furthermore, Zeri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zeri is a garbage counter for Lux. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zeri against Lux.
To truly master Zeri to counter Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri typically accumulates more CS relative to Lux. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zeri versus Lux build include Experimental Hexplate, Runaan's Hurricane, and Terminus. When Zeri included at least these three items in their build, they did much better when fighting Lux than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zeri had an average winrate of 46.4% when countering Lux with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Lux 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. Of all the rune sets players used for Zeri vs Lux LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.4% winrate overall.
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