Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
The stats provided here highlight several influential Zeri against Yasuo matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Yasuo..
Zeri normally has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Yasuo. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zeri usually loses when taking on Yasuo, with a 46.1% win rate. Therefore, Zeri makes a bad counter for Yasuo.
While Zeri does have a lower winrate than Yasuo, when facing one another, Zeri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Zeri into Yasuo.
Moreover, Zeri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zeri is a bad counter for Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zeri against Yasuo.
If you would like to truly master Zeri in order to counter Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Yasuo. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zeri versus Yasuo build include Bloodthirster, Runaan's Hurricane, and Navori Quickblades. When Zeri used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better against Yasuo than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zeri had an average winrate of 46.1% when playing against Yasuo with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Yasuo as Zeri, Zeri players should equip 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 used for Zeri vs Yasuo counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.1% winrate overall.
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