Is crit warrior Yi > sated bruiser Yi?

ghood4life·2/12/2016, 5:39:37 AM·1 votes·994 views

I've been playing a lot of Master Yi recently, and loving it. My main problem with him is that if I go up against a high early-game pressure jungler, my lanes get destroyed and their is not much I can do about it. I can help by ganking, but that can only give one stack maximum when I could be getting 3+ in the same time. If I don't help, my lanes lose and I am never able to get sated because loss of map control. I hate letting my teammates get clobbered, but I also hate feeling useless.

I decided I didn't want to have to make that decision anymore. What I have started doing is going Skirmisher's Saber(Warrior) -> Phantom Dancer -> T1boots -> Deadman's Plate -> Statikk Shiv --> IE -> sell boots for Essence Reaver -> sell jungle item for something like Ravenous Hydra/Sterak's/SV/etc. With some variation in build order depending on situation.

I run Warlord's Bloodlust and usually find I have done the most healing in the game at the end. It isn't uncommon for me to be able to dive the backline and gib carries without being killed due to healing. I do think there is little question that this build is squishier as I usually go 2-3 defensive items and defensive boots on sated Yi.

My question is: is this build going to allow me to mid-late game hyper-carry like sated does?

UPDATO: I've been building Warrior and doing consistently better with it. I snowball my lanes while snowballing myself. Check my match history, it's normals at silver-gold elo, but w/e. I also did some math that may or may not be 100% accurate, but 100% crit warrior does more damage even if you build DMP and SV. Maybe I am wrong but I am sticking with it all the way to challenjour.

18 Comments

J Epstein2/12/2016, 9:22:26 PM2 votes

yes, pls start going warrior squishy on yi. Its so much better than 3000 hp sated yi with QSS who can't be shutdown.

Calabok2/12/2016, 9:24:03 PM2 votes

Its Yi. Don't matter what he builds

agbudar2/12/2016, 10:24:02 PM1 votes

you are a late game jungler if you play Yi and im my own experience sated if you grit yourself through it get that drag a kill double kill/ assist on botlane, sated yi will pay itself off, iit spikes mid game and you can still follow the crit route due to super high attack speed scaling. the combination of fervor from masteries (112 flat damage PER HIT!!! at lvl 18) his passive "nudge nudge" and sated "NUDGE NUDGE" is simply to good to skip out on.

so no sated devourer beats warrior yi any time unless warrior Yi get horribly fed but thats just it it completely relies on snowballing sated relies on getting objectives yknow YOUR JOB AS A JUNGLER?

Sasogwa2/12/2016, 10:44:37 PM1 votes

Sated Yi will always be stronger in 1v1. Crit warrior has arguably better bursting squishy potential but you can't build defensive with that. Sated Yi's whole strength is the fact he can build bruisery while dishing out huge true/mixed damage melting tanks.

Troiann2/14/2016, 1:57:46 AM1 votes

Play what works.

Technically bruiser guinsoos devo yi is better but if playing warrior crit yi works for you go on ahead and do it.

legionnaire992/12/2016, 2:26:09 PM1 votes

no

Wenderwall2/16/2016, 8:04:29 PM1 votes

I have done both 100% crit and bruiser. 100% is awesome but to reach it will take and first item ( item 3508 or item 3031 ) is 3600. while item 3124 is 2800. Simple maths & time. 100% crit will work only if your team is doing good and you are way ahead.

With bruiser yi, even if you are behind you can somehow powerspike, sustain and get 1-2 kills before dying.

I have seen a combination of crit + bruiser but for that need to have gold.

MegaManYYZ2/12/2016, 9:19:50 PM1 votes

no, you can't carry as hard as a sated yi late game, you're just too squishy late game, with any CC, you can also be instantly gib'd.