AD Carry

Zeri Build 26.22

Zeri's basic attack is a spell, not an auto, and everything about her flows from that one quirk. She kites with relentless Q spam and darts over walls with her E, while her ult overcharges her into a chain-lightning machine that only grows the longer a fight lasts. She is playable but nothing scary at 50.8% and on the way down, a movement-and-momentum carry who turns into a menace once rolling and stays clumsy before she gets going.

#19 of 45 ad carry this patch · 1.1k games

Win rate50.8%−1.3Games1.1kPick rate5.5%Ban rate0.8%Last 8 patches−0.6 since 26.15Damage profilei

AP 21%AD 76%True 2%DifficultyiModerateRewards fundamentals

The 10-second answer standard · 50.8% WR

Spells

Flash + Barrier Start

Gluttonous Greaves SkillsE›Q›W Runes

Shards

ModernARAM Counter

173 champions

AatroxTopA50.9%AhriMidA51.2%AkaliMidC48.6%AkshanMidD45.0%AlistarSupportS52.8%AmbessaTopC48.5%AmumuJungleB50.2%AniviaMidC49.0%AnnieMidC48.7%ApheliosAD CarryC48.8%AsheAD CarryC48.5%Aurelion SolMidS53.5%AuroraMidS53.3%AzirMidD46.4%BardSupportC48.6%Bel'VethJungleS+55.2%BlitzcrankSupportA51.7%BrandSupportB49.9%BraumSupportA51.6%BriarJungleS54.1%CaitlynAD CarryC48.0%CamilleTopA51.0%CassiopeiaMidD45.6%Cho'GathJungleS52.9%CorkiAD CarryA51.2%DariusTopB50.1%DianaMidA51.1%Dr. MundoTopS52.6%DravenAD CarryB50.2%EkkoMidA51.7%EliseJungleB50.1%EvelynnJungleS53.0%EzrealAD CarryD47.1%FiddlesticksJungleC48.2%FioraTopA51.5%FizzMidC48.0%GalioMidB50.1%GangplankTopB50.6%GarenTopB50.0%GnarTopC48.8%GragasTopC47.8%GravesJungleB50.7%GwenTopA51.7%HecarimJungleB49.9%HeimerdingerTopA51.2%HweiMidB50.5%IllaoiTopB50.3%IreliaTopD47.4%IvernJungleS54.1%JannaSupportB50.4%Jarvan IVJungleD47.0%JaxTopB50.0%JayceTopC48.5%JhinAD CarryB50.7%JinxAD CarryB50.1%K'SanteTopC48.5%Kai'SaAD CarryB50.3%KalistaAD CarryB50.3%KarmaSupportC48.4%KarthusJungleS52.9%KassadinMidS+57.7%KatarinaMidA51.3%KayleTopB49.8%KaynJungleC48.0%KennenTopS53.8%Kha'ZixJungleB49.5%KindredJungleS52.8%KledTopS53.9%Kog'MawAD CarryB49.5%LeBlancMidS53.0%Lee SinJungleC48.6%LeonaSupportA51.6%LilliaJungleB49.3%LissandraMidC49.1%LockeMidC48.8%LucianAD CarryD47.7%LuluSupportB50.2%LuxSupportC48.3%MalphiteTopS52.4%MalzaharMidC49.1%MaokaiSupportB49.6%Master YiJungleC48.3%MelMidC47.8%MilioSupportC47.8%Miss FortuneAD CarryC48.3%MordekaiserTopA50.9%MorganaSupportB50.8%NaafiriJungleB50.2%NamiSupportA51.1%NasusTopA50.9%NautilusSupportB49.7%NeekoSupportD44.6%NidaleeJungleB50.7%NilahAD CarryS+60.9%NocturneJungleD46.9%Nunu & WillumpJungleD47.0%OlafTopC48.5%OriannaMidC49.1%OrnnTopA52.3%PantheonTopB49.9%PoppySupportS+54.7%PykeSupportB50.4%QiyanaJungleC48.1%QuinnTopD43.5%RakanSupportS53.6%RammusJungleS+58.7%Rek'SaiJungleS53.7%RellSupportS53.4%Renata GlascSupportS52.9%RenektonTopB50.4%RengarJungleA51.6%RivenTopC48.9%RumbleTopB50.7%RyzeMidD47.1%SamiraAD CarryC47.9%SejuaniJungleA52.4%SennaSupportS52.7%SeraphineSupportB49.5%SettTopB50.4%ShacoJungleC48.7%ShenTopS52.7%ShyvanaJungleS52.6%SingedTopC47.9%SionTopS53.3%SivirAD CarryB50.6%SkarnerJungleB50.5%SmolderAD CarryC49.0%SonaSupportB50.9%SorakaSupportB50.4%SwainSupportS+55.0%SylasMidC48.0%SyndraMidC48.4%Tahm KenchSupportC47.7%TaliyahJungleB50.7%TalonJungleA52.2%TaricSupportD47.1%TeemoTopS53.3%ThreshSupportB49.6%TristanaAD CarryA51.4%TrundleTopC48.2%TryndamereTopA51.3%Twisted FateMidB49.5%TwitchAD CarryB50.4%UdyrJungleB51.0%UrgotTopD47.4%VarusAD CarryC48.7%VayneAD CarryC48.6%VeigarMidB49.4%Vel'KozSupportS53.5%VexMidS+55.5%ViJungleB50.3%ViegoJungleD47.1%ViktorMidC48.1%VladimirMidC48.8%VolibearTopB49.6%WarwickJungleS54.1%WukongJungleA51.7%XayahAD CarryS53.2%XerathMidA52.2%Xin ZhaoJungleA52.0%YasuoMidC48.2%YoneTopD46.9%YorickTopC48.0%YunaraAD CarryC48.2%YuumiSupportD47.3%ZaahenTopC48.9%ZacJungleA52.0%ZedMidC48.2%ZeriAD CarryB50.8%ZiggsAD CarryS+56.3%ZileanSupportB50.2%ZoeMidS+55.3%ZyraSupportA51.4%

When Is Zeri Strongest?

The curve keeps climbing into the mid-to-late game, and games at this rank average around 27 minutes. Zeri scales into an unkillable kiting threat, so the plan is to survive the early game and reach the point where her overcharge stays up. In the late game, hold range, refresh her move speed on every hit, and chain lightning through the whole enemy team.

Game timeline · Zeri drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end26:33

Ambush zone5:24–6:54 Power spike 22:39

~5:09

11:00

16:33

22:39

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 64/100 · Even

Core 1/3 items

Gold ~6.6k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Runaan's Hurricane · 16:33

Zeri Item Build

Zeri is a mobile hyper-carry whose attacks count as abilities and whose kit rewards constant movement. The build stacks attack speed and damage scaling so her burst fire ramps, her sparkpack charges faster, and she kites in endless circles while chipping the enemy down.

Standard loadout · Zeri The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 500g

Doran's Bow×1

Health Potion×2 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Gluttonous Greaves60% · 53.9%

Berserker's Greaves40% · 49.5%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs AP threatsTheir damage is mostly magic — stack magic resist before their second item.M

Mercurial Scimitar7972.2%

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.G

Guardian Angel10769.2%

vs stacked resistsWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.M

Mortal Reminder12458.9%L

Lord Dominik's Regards37256.7%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.F

Farsight Alteration92752.5%O

Oracle Lens1650.0%S

Stealth Ward18742.2%

Best Zeri Runes

Lethal Tempo is the natural fit for a marksman whose damage lives entirely in her attack rhythm. The faster she is allowed to keep firing her Q, the more her pattern of kite, shock, and dash comes together, and the keystone feeds straight into that ramp. Set the rest up to keep her moving and firing safely, since standing still is the one thing she cannot do.

The pre-game page Lethal Tempo · Precision + Inspiration · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Precision Primary

Lethal TempoAttacking an enemy champion grants you Attack Speed, up to 6 stacks. At max stacks, deal bonus adaptive damage On-Attack.

Triumph97% · 50.9%

Legend: Bloodline57% · 48.4%

Cut Down79% · 50.2%

Keystone plus three minors from Precision, two from Inspiration, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Inspiration Secondary

Cash Back68% · 50.6%

Triple Tonic47% · 47.9%

Stat shards Offense

Attack Speed+10% Attack Speed

Flex

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Defense

Health+65 Health

Shards give +10%Attack Speed+9Adaptive Force+65Health

No one spike defines the game, so just play it straight. Build toward Yun Tal Wildarrows into Runaan's Hurricane, since her Q leans on attack speed and the stats that let it fire faster. Once Runaan's Hurricane comes online by roughly 17 minutes, her kiting damage crosses from annoying to lethal and her ult starts running away with fights. Rush it, and play safe until it lands.

Zeri Skill Order

Her opening three levels each go somewhere different, E, then W, then Q, which is why Zeri feels scattered early. The fourth point doubles up Burst Fire, and that is roughly when Spark Surge and a ranked-up burst start reading as a real all-in.

Skill order · Zeri R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›E

E›Q

Q›W

WMax E first; Q at level 3.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q3468max 8

W21314max 14

E1791112max 12

R510max 10

Zeri Abilities

Ultrashock Laser is the tool that gets forgotten, an electric pulse that slows on contact and stretches into a long-range beam the moment it strikes a wall. Living Battery quietly rewards footwork, banking energy as she moves and fires until a fully charged Sparkpack makes her next hit land bigger.

Abilities · Zeripatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

Living BatteryPassiveP

Burst FireMax 2ndQ

Ultrashock LaserMax lastW

Spark SurgeMax 1stE

Lightning CrashUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

Spark SurgeMagic damageMax 1stStatLV 1rank 1LV 7rank 2LV 9rank 3LV 11rank 4LV 12MAXPercentage Damage+5 per ranklv 180lv 785lv 990lv 1195lv 12100Cost-5 per ranklv 190lv 785lv 980lv 1175lv 1270Cooldown-1.5 per ranklv 124slv 722.5slv 921slv 1119.5slv 1218s

Zeri Base Stats

Base stats · ZeriPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD56+2AS0.658+2%MS330Range550HP600+110HP53.25+0.7Armor24+4.2MR33+1.1MP250+45MP56+0.8

Zeri Matchups

Zeri is squishy and low-range on each shot, so she suffers against dive and hard lockdown that catches her before her overcharge gets rolling. Immobile targets and poke she can weave around with her wall vault and dash let her scale safely into a late game where her movement and chained lightning take over.

Lane matchups · Zeri click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs marksmen 01Poke with your long-range W laser before committing to short-range Q trades.02Respect their level six spike; ward river and play safe until you outscale.03Build armor and use R move speed to kite enemy marksmen in extended fights. Win rate by game lengthZeri overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min52.5%20–28 min48.0%28–35 min53.4%Over 35 min50.5%

Samira, Mel, and Viktor give her trouble early, locking her down or bursting her before her attack speed and mobility come online, so respect them until you spike. Her E over walls and constant Q pressure let her dance around most of them once she is rolling. She outpaces Ziggs, Twitch, and Sivir, so against that group, look to snowball a lead and let the ult turn one won fight into a takeover.

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