The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several important Yuumi against Zeri matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zeri’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zeri. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Yuumi normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Zeri. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when facing off against Zeri, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Yuumi makes a bad counter for Zeri.
While Yuumi does have a lower win rate than Zeri, when they face off with one another, Yuumi also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Yuumi into Zeri.
Furthermore, Yuumi also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zeri. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Zeri matchups, Zeri is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Yuumi is a somewhat poor counter to Zeri. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Yuumi against Zeri.
If you would like to truly master Yuumi in order to counter Zeri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Zeri. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Yuumi versus Zeri build include Plasmasogni, Staffa delle correnti, and Pietra di luna rinnovata. When Yuumi incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Zeri than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when countering Zeri with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Zeri as Yuumi, Yuumi players should use the Evoca Aery, Fascia del Flusso, Trascendenza, Bruciare, Fonte vitale, and Rivitalizzare runes from the Stregoneria and Determinazione rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Yuumi vs Zeri counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zeri as Yuumi are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.