What to do against Master Yi?

iNathh·4/3/2016, 12:07:34 PM·8 votes·9,826 views

Over 3000 HP - cannot kill Over 2000 True Damage in less than 2 seconds - cannot survive Over 600 Movespeed - cannot escape

Under 2 second cd on all abilities:

  • Q: Cannot even target or damage
  • W: Cannot kill, cannot trade
  • E: Cannot survive
  • R: Cannot escape

Why is his ult up every 5 seconds after he uses it? I literally watched a Yi sit on edge of turret, ult, dive turret picking up 2 kills, take 0 dmg, ult runs out, 10 seconds later he uses ult again and dives 2 more people.

You cannot CC this champ either, because Q dodges skill shots, and even the most unskilled players can just accidentally press Q to dodge most CC skillshots, and also if you have point click stuns, he'll still jump on your team with Q and catch up with R. You try to chain your cc, he only has to spam Q to become untargetable between the cc, or on the rare occasion decide to get out of a fight rather than just charge in and kill everyone.

Seems like a FREElo champ atm, honestly no counter other than banning, but cannot ban every broken champ in the game with only 6 bans - 3 of which are under_ your teams _ control - sometimes not even 1 of them under your own control.

If you want to win with Yi, farm until 20 minutes when you have Sated Dev. Then you win. You'll then be able to get Guinsoo's and if you still want to win maybe a Youmoo's. With over 55% win rate for the last 10 patches, it seems like this champ needs a bit of a nerf.

Rather than passing on, downvoting this, and not giving an adequate answer - actually try to give a counter to this champ. Thanks.

40 Comments

Khâmul4/3/2016, 12:15:28 PM7 votes

Hello. First of all, you're over reacting with the statements in your introduction.

Secondly, here's some tips to counter master yi: -Do not let him farm(early game jungler) or take a jungler that is also oriented late gameWarwick . In fact, warwick ultimate will give enough time for your mates to put another control,but you'll have to react fast and chain cc. -Usually, he will use Q spell to dodge some skill/or engage, so bait him and use minor spells. If he do so, burst him: he will surely use his W to survive: that's when you land your control. I have some other tips but I'm a bit tiret,going to sleep. See you soon

ff4sk4/3/2016, 12:28:21 PM5 votes

Pray he's retarded and doesn't know how to farm

Tychusfindlay9194/3/2016, 1:10:05 PM3 votes

Hard CC, nuff said

Asudurga4/3/2016, 1:41:32 PM2 votes

Teemo, Yi is naturally squishy, even if he goes bruiser because of Teemo's magic damage and poison effects. The shrooms may not do crap, but the blind will work, you only have to wait for Yi to get right in your face or use his Q first.

Yimmortal4/3/2016, 2:05:46 PM2 votes

can I drink your tears?

Foxstep4/3/2016, 4:41:30 PM1 votes

There are so many strong early junglers which can easily shut down yi. I think of elise, lee, nidalee and reksai. If you let him come to lategame you deserve to lose cause thats basically his concept.

Effluent4/3/2016, 6:11:05 PM1 votes

Ban him.

Only Play Darius4/3/2016, 7:51:37 PM1 votes

Snowball and roam early, counter jungle, take his camps etc. You can't complain about a late game hypercarry once he gets to late game

cuddlykitten44/3/2016, 8:00:59 PM1 votes

Do the same thing you would do to a Le Blanc or anyone using a Zhonya's. Wait for him to use his Alpha, then while he's untargetable guess where he'll land (usually pretty easy to figure out) and throw all your shit at that one spot right as he's about to land. You'll smash him crazy hard, and he'll panic because you just nailed him with a full combo regardless of his alpha. Yi's tend to panick when they run into actual counter play, they're just not used to it. Same as LB, when she uses her distortion, throw you skillshots at her marker because you know she'll go back to it. The only other option is to stay in what is usually a dangerous place that she just flashed herself to.

blkh14/3/2016, 10:58:10 PM1 votes

it's kind of like a kog maw, just keep him from late game. Just deny him his farm.

GamblerOfLives4/4/2016, 7:56:23 PM1 votes

play kha'zix vs him..easy money..if he Q's you, just E away with him and isolate him (if he is not isolated)..easy as that..you beat him at every stage of the game;)..even if he is fed, kha'zix can still 1 vs 1 him;)

un73h6qc3M4/16/2018, 12:09:15 AM1 votes

hey how about sejuani Sejuani she got alot of cc if she miss 1 she can get the others stun i think she the best option

venomous frost4/3/2016, 12:14:21 PM1 votes

either pick a jungler that can kill him early game and deny him all game long, like LeeSin or Kindred . or pick a comp that has lots of hard CC

HairyLadyLegs5/5/2019, 1:45:33 AM1 votes

just play jax and stomp him after he throws his q

Faryá4/3/2016, 12:27:25 PM1 votes

if you see a MasterYi on the enemy, and you have 2 of these 3 choices after that: Top, Jungle, Support. pick Rammus and Amumu. not only are you going to fuck Yi over, youll more then likely win teamfights.

Peace Is Life4/3/2016, 1:08:59 PM1 votes

You want to counter Master yi?

Don't let him get kills or farm and if u doidn't know Master yi needs the help of his teamates on early game to get early kills so kill him before and if he's too fed don't engage.

warpenguin5554/3/2016, 3:12:56 PM1 votes

What i have been doing against sated junglers not named Shyvana is picking Nocturne into them, afk farming sated, soloing dragon at lvl 7 (been told he can do it at lvl 5 but havent tried it yet) and only ganking when my ult is up. Once I have beat them to sated (almost always happens) just counter jungle the fk out of them while my ult is down. It worked so fking well vs a Jax and Xin (Xin got back into the game later but it was working on him). Never tried it vs a Yi yet but im hoping i can soon

Bellows4/3/2016, 3:13:40 PM1 votes

Morgana