A few days ago, Riot released information about the appearance and skill set of the new champion Zeri – the next name to join League of Legends as a Marksman. This is a new agile champion from Zaun, with skills revolving around electric sparks. In terms of appearance, Zeri looks quite young, around the age of Ekko and Jinx, Vi – names that also come from Zaun and have appeared before.
However, the most notable aspect of Zeri is her extremely high mobility, especially her ultimate ability R – Peak Voltage. With this ability, after use, Zeri gains 3 stacks of Overload for each hit on an enemy and receives an additional 2% movement speed for each stack, lasting for 6 seconds. During this time, if Zeri continues to attack the enemy (with both abilities and basic attacks), she will gain an additional stack and add 2 seconds to the duration of the stacks.
In fact, this can be seen as a mechanism that makes Zeri a “speed hack” champion in League of Legends in the near future. Typically, a team fight lasts about 15 – 20 seconds, or even longer, including the time to initiate the fight and start attacking the enemy until one side achieves total victory. With Overload stacking continuously, Zeri can reach extremely high movement speeds. According to Vandiril – the “bug spotter” of the League of Legends community who recently tested it, at nearly 7k Overload stacks, Zeri could move from one Nexus to the other in just 0.3 seconds.
Of course, this “speed hack” can only be performed on the PBE, as in actual matches it will be difficult for Zeri to comfortably use abilities to stack Overload like that. However, it is completely normal to increase the number of stacks above 10 during a team fight. And perhaps, even at a moderate level, Zeri could increase her movement speed significantly faster than normal champions.
In the near future, the new champion from Zaun will officially appear in Summoner’s Rift and surely, she will shake up the League of Legends arena, both in ranked and tournament play with her “overpowered” skill set.