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Any insightful Master Yi players out there?

3ofGot40ve·Jan 10, 2016·1 votes·388 views

Hello :D

I Play a lot of Master Yi, he is really fun come late game and quite rewarding for properly using your q to dodge abilities (which I love). Recently his build has been changing up a bit. What used to be full crit/AD/AS is now AP/AS/AD. I wanted to ask any active Yi players how well my build is.

1st item: Devourer (Duh) 2nd item: Guinsoo's Rageblade and around that time 3rd item: BoTRK or Titanic 4th item: BoTRK if I got titanic. I get titanic if I got bork earlier. Normally I Get bork 1st if I'm ahead Final Item: or

Normally, My final build looks something like this (almost every game)

Regularly I get Spirit visage over dead mans plate for the 20% stronger healing (Meditate). Is this ok? Also, Should I be getting BoRK or titanic Hydra as my second major item? If you have any certain build path you go, please explain below. As you can see from mine, I like the tank Yi kinda thing and find it very enjoyable.

Cheers :D

6 Comments

HEAljvLykdJan 10, 20162 votes

That item build is ok. There is the crit path for Yi too which im sure you can find online. But the item build is only a small detail to master yi, if you really want to be good at yi you have to improve your decision making. WHEN to engage as Yi is the most important aspect of playing Yi. You have to wait till the enemy team has used most of their CC and most spells have gone on CD before performing your janitorial duties.

3ofGot40veJan 10, 20161 votes

I played a lot of kat so normally my timing is ok, however there are still some times when I go into to early and get melted.

SasogwaJan 10, 20161 votes

I don't think this build is optimal. There's a lot of good things in this build ofc.

So yeah, item 3931 is great. Then you either want item 3153 or item 3124 . I'm not fond of getting both. I really don't like item 3006 because you're capped in AS anyway.

Then if you want to eliminate squishies flat arpen is godlike. item 3142 But let's recapitulate what are the items to consider :

On-hit items :

item 3124 Post-nerfs, I'm not fond of it, it sorta falls off and only really grants base stats, the on-hit is kinda crap. But it's still strong and grants a huge powerspike. item 3153 Despite the nerfs at the beginning of the season, this item is still great. item 3748 Good item, but requires a bit of time to be effective and the build path sucks. Getting all 3 of those in one build is not worth, they don't really scale that well together. At that point you either want arpen (flat usually) and defensive stats to synergize.

Armor-pen items :

(Flat arpen is awesome against squishy champions, %bonus armor pen is good against tanks, black cleaver is good against both) item 3142 is broken right now, it's an item you should really consider. item 3156 This item is awesome. Grants huge stats and the passive gives a lot of good stats when you're low health. item 3071 It was actually super good before the nerfs of this season, but now it grants really low health, and the AD is meh, also it takes time to stack, and you have little AOE. I'd consider this on a Titanic build. item 3036 / item 3033 Short answer : no. Long answer : way too situational and grants too little stats. And you've got your true damage against tanky champions anyway, I don't think this item is worth in any case.

Defensive items :

item 3742 Nothing much to say. Tanky stats, movespeed, great item. item 3065 Good mr item item 3156 already described, imo better than SV because it provides great offense/defense power. It's also much better than item 3139 unless you greatly need the cleanse passive. item 3143 Better defense than Deadman's, but less mobility. Good item overall. item 3026 Since recent buffs, it's actually quite a nice item. item 3022 Doesn't grant really good stats, but it helps locking down a target. I practically never get it though.

Now, when you have to make a build, you take Sated + 1 on-hit + 1 arpen + 2 defensive or Sated + 2 on-hit + 1 arpen + 1 defensive. If you get item 3748 , and you got nothing more than item 3931 for attack speed, is the only case where I'd get item 3006 . In other cases, get item 3047 or item 3111 depending on enemy comp

This gives example builds : item 3931 item 3047 item 3153 item 3142 item 3143 item 3156 item 3006 item 3748 item 3071 item 3742 item 3124 item 3022 item 3026

Hope I helped. If you have questions about other items (crit for instance) feel free to ask.

khorneyJan 10, 20161 votes

i dunno i see more successful yis getting warriors instead of sated

Slamurai JackJan 10, 20161 votes

That's a little damage heavy. You can probably drop the Botrk and get a Dead Mans instead. That's what Cowsep does. His typical final build is usually something like item 3931 item 3124 item 3742 item 3748 item 3156 item 3006 .

Commando YiJan 14, 20161 votes

bveil over spirit visage

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