The Lead Champion Designer for League of Legends, August “Riot August” Browning shared to Twitter a sneak peek of the incoming Zeri tweaks. He posted the changes with the caption “Zeri the carry is very unfairy we're nerfing her kit to make ranked games less scary.”

Q – Burst Fire

  • Uncharged right click damage: 15 – 40 (+4% AP) >>> 10 – 25 ( +3% AP)
  • Uncharged right click low health multiplier: 4x >>> 6x
  • Right click Slow duration: 1.5s >>> 1s
  • Right click Slow amounts: 20 – 40% >>> 14 – 50%
  • Q base Damage: 10 – 30 >>> 9 – 25
  • Q base Damage can now Critically Strike
  • Q excess Attack Speed to Attack Damage conversion: 50% >>> 60% (70% efficiency >>> 84%)

W – Ultrashock Laser

  • Cooldown: 10s >>> 13s – 9s

E – Spark Surge

  • Cooldown: 23 – 17 >>> 23 – 19
  • Cooldown Reduction per champion hit with an attack or ability: 1.5s >>> 1s

R – Lightning Crash

  • Attack Speed: 30 – 40% >>> 30%

Items

  • Navori Quickblade no longer reduces the cooldown of Q – Burst Fire
  • Q – Burst Fire is now treated like an attack and the right clicks are treated like spells for the purpose of stacking Tear of the Goddess.

These changes are expected to hit live servers on League of Legends Patch 12.4, along with these other changes. In this same patch, a number of marksmen got buffed, which should help Zeri feel more balanced. Hopefully this patch will end Zeri's terror over solo queue, and widen the choices for bot lane players who like to play with, as, or against her.