Master Yi Discussion (Civil)

Scream Engineer·Jun 5, 2017·3 votes·746 views

First, let's please keep this post civil. I don't want a shouting match, just honest opinions about this champion since I've seen him played a lot recently. I will try to keep all other part of this post unbiased except for the my opinion section. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

THE KIT

Passive

Extra attack after getting 3 stacks(stacks are gained through attacks)
Can crit
Applies on-hit effects
Triggers his Cooldown reset on Q
Does 50% of his AD.

Range as long as every single ranged champion except ( and a few others like late game).
Makes him untargetable
Crits
Cooldown reset with autos,
Is able to attack immediatly after (b/c there is no end animation)
Brings him to his target.

Makes him heal based on how much health he is missing (120 minimum at lvl1)
Resets his autos
Grants a stack towards his passive
Pauses his ult and E duration
Reduces the damage he takes while channeling
But during this time he is unable to move or attack.

passively gives him 10% bonus damage on attacks while the ability is not on cooldown.
It's active allows him to do true damage with every attack equal to 25%)of his bonus AD with a flat damage value
damages with his Q.
(Every attack he does with this active does 100% AD + 10% Bonus AD + True damage (14/23/32/41/50+(25% bonus AD) )...

Passively reduces the cooldown of all basic abilities by 70% upon landing a kill or assist
Actively gains (30/55/80%) bonus AS
Multiplies MS by 25/35/45% (not bonus or flat MS this means that all MS from items gets Multiplied too)
Becomes Immune to all slows
Kills or assists add 7 secs to the duration

MY OPINION

I think he is Easy and too strong right now. Well let me rephrase that... I think he has a low skill floor and a medium height skill cap. He kinda dominates the enemy JG kinda like Lee Sin unless you are playing a Tank JG (Specifically Rammus). He doesn't have to many counters and he just does a lot of damage with no drawbacks besides that he can be stunned (but a lot of stuns are skill shots so he can dodge them with his Q). I personally think his kit has too much of everything. He has gap closers, true damage, attack speed buff, movement speed buff, heal, double attack, slow immunity, Cooldown resets, and and duration increases. It's just kinda crazy imo, and when he gets fed it's almost impossible to stop him unless he gets cocky.

12 Comments

Death by GlamourJun 5, 20172 votes

Just want to point out much like Kata the removal of a lot of point and click CC as really benefited him, sure just "CC" him is pretty easy to say but hard to actually do nowadays.

Overall he is a feast or famine champ, powerfarming and waiting till late game really isn't an option nowadays, his ganks are relatively poor compared to most other junglers (even udyr). He is much like trynda, far to binary to be enjoyable to play against and those 1500 autos late game are sure fun to play against (yep not just him I know).

Well those are my thoughts

Scream EngineerJun 5, 20171 votes

That's about what I think. I think there needs to be a better way for him to gank, but reduce the power of his snowballiness. Because it sucks for him when he doesn't, but the enemy hates it if he does.

Death by GlamourJun 5, 20171 votes

The problem is that he was once a laner who got nerfed so hard that it forced him into the jungle. His kit hasn't changed from those days

Qzply76Jun 5, 20171 votes

Yi will always dominate in low elo and be bad in high elo.

MissingKayoJun 5, 20172 votes

bad in high elo*

You mean?

HaIlMonitorJun 5, 20173 votes

Yi does well basically everywhere. But yes in high elo people build good team comps because they play meta.

Scream EngineerJun 5, 20171 votes

Yeah, most of the time I don't like playing the meta champs. And a lot of the time that can screw you over sadly.

MissingKayoJun 5, 20171 votes

In trash-tier ELOs or in normal games, he dominates usually outside of heavy CC teamcomps.

In any sort of higher ELO, he's steaming garbage because he's literally one of the laughably easiest champions to shit on in the entire game.

He's fine.

Scream EngineerJun 5, 20171 votes

How is he easy to shit on?

Yaśuo MainJun 5, 20171 votes

invades

High elo has a lot of invades I believe, and Yi suffers BADLY from those.

TranozeJun 5, 20171 votes

Enhancer: Protect the main target from Yi, CC him right after he Q or when he meditate. Tank: CC him right after he Q, Mage: Focus enough damage right after he Q. ADC: Stay with your support. Dont use your flash/dash ability in teamfight until Yi already used his Q.

If he dont use his Q, and your team has atleast 2 champion can CC, one can CC him first and do everything you can during the CC duration.

Team: Dont engage if you think a yi is near by, engage when yi is going split push. Yi is very strong in teamfight, and if you burn your CC and mobility skill to engage, there are no way you can defend against Yi. Stay together, it very hard for team with yi to engage and win, cuz Yi have no CC and if he go first, none of his teammate will have mobility to catch up with him, so it easy to kill yi first then fight a 5 v 4 fight.