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As often, the new champions designed by Riot Games are the source of controversy. It must be said that the balancing team has the unfortunate tendency to release characters that are too strong and that completely upset the metagame… While waiting for Renata, who is already giving some people nightmares, Zeri has also created quite a stir with including Tik Tok videos where we see him frolicking around while shooting his enemies.
And when she was announced available for the 4th week of the LEC, a lot of teams were afraid… It was seen during the draft phases since she was banned in the first 4 games of the day . But MAD Lions and Fnatic are fearless and both teams left the champion open during picks and bans. Obviously, a clever little one couldn’t resist the temptation and Unforgiven immediately first pick theADC controversy. The small problem is that his first outing was catastrophic.
A Zeri not at all OP for her first game with the pros
Zeri had everything to burst the screen during her first match with the pros (all regions combined) since she benefited from a Yuumi to support her and give her even more speed and mobility. But if on paper, this association promised to break everything, the result was disappointing in reality… We don’t know whether to blame the champion or the player, but the Zeri from Unforgiven had his face smashed… MAD Lions’ ADC ended the game in 0/2/3inflicting only 18.9% damage from his team. Totally dominated by Upset’s Aphelios, the Swede fell 80 CS behind and only dealt 170 damage per minute (DPM). For comparison, on a huge sample Jinx is at 537 DPM (441 games) and Jhin is at 473 (302 parts). Zeri is going to have to work hard to increase her stats.
Fortunately, to save the new ADC, darshan also played Zeri overnight in LCS Academy. It’s a bit of cheating because he played the machine gun on top. So we can’t really count his good statistics, but for fun he did 8/3/3 in obtaining 798 DPM.