Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
The stats shown here feature several valuable Zeri versus Vi counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Vi..
Zeri typically has a similar longest killing spree as their counter does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Vi. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zeri usually loses when facing off against Vi, with a 42.2% win rate. Thus, Zeri makes a poor counter for Vi.
While Zeri does have a much lower winrate compared to Vi, when on opposite teams, Zeri also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zeri into Vi.
Moreover, Zeri has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Vi matchups, Vi 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 to Vi. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zeri against Vi.
To truly master Zeri to counter Vi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri most often accumulates much more CS as Vi. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zeri versus Vi build include Bloodthirster, Experimental Hexplate, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Zeri bought at least these three items in their build, they did much better vs. Vi than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zeri had an average win rate of 42.2% when playing against Vi with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Vi as Zeri, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zeri vs Vi battles, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 42.2% winrate overall.
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