New Yuumi: Early game feels TERRIBLE

Lystrates·12/12/2019, 1:33:59 AM·11 votes·3,146 views

underwent big changes this patch. It is just me, or does her early game feel absolutely atrocious?

She feels extremely underpowered compared to any other support during laning. Not to mention that with the passive mana regen mechanic, she keep going out of mana in no time.

After you get a few items she becomes ok, and her late game feels acceptable. But right now I refuse to play her considering how bad her early game feels. She literally feels non-existent. Why play her? I dont get what Riot was trying to do.

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22 Comments

Malix Farwin12/12/2019, 3:19:06 AM7 votes

New Yuumi is terrible in general. Enemy hates her because of her Heals and the player hates playing her now because she became way too 1 dimensional now.

iiGazeii12/12/2019, 1:46:44 AM6 votes

Her early game was always atrocious.

The point of these changes were to put her strength into being an enchanter, not into an invulnerable poke mage.

Her new E does more than double the healing of both her old E charges put together, on a shorter cooldown than a single charge, with an attack speed steroid as a cherry on top. Yuumi's utility and healing are way stronger, but she'll run out of mana if she doesn't come out to trigger her passive.

Take Aery (Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch) + (Shield Bash + Revitalize) + (CDR+AP+MR). Get Q level 1, but max it last. Max E first. Trigger your passive as often as you can without getting CC'd. Rush Athene's, then build every item that gives heal/shield power you can get your paws on.

Hayaishi212/12/2019, 5:08:56 AM5 votes

What do you expect? How can Riot make that champion good without her being the best support?

This is what happens when Riot adds power budget to new champions. All her powerbudget goes to her W so she can't be strong everywhere else if she is untargetable for the most part.

It is Riot's fault in the end for not knowing how to design a champion.

Pika Fox12/12/2019, 9:12:59 AM2 votes

Her laning was always garbage. Now you just max Q last and just use it for slow. Getting Q to land is going to be next to impossible with less empowered time, and it still wont deal the damage you need it to. Now instead of QWE, its going to be EWQ.

And your entire money budget is going to be going into getting E sustainable mana wise without getting off the person youre on, as now theres too much risk dismounting.

Profirix12/16/2019, 5:52:10 PM1 votes

Wow the downvote bots strike again.

Anyway, her early game is FAR worse, but if you attach to a hyper carry and the enemy can't burst them down, you auto win. They definitely made Yuumi more boring and less skill-intensive.