Master Yi is way over powered

Darth Rodan·8/27/2018, 8:27:11 AM·68 votes·19,472 views

in defensive curl. and starting to build

Master Yi melted me in seconds. 1800 wuju style true damage. Teammates beating on him, he just lifesteals back all damage done to him. Any CC thrown at him and he uses alpha strike to avoid it. Any large nuke thrown at him and he meditates to reduce it to nothing. There was nothing we could do. Every fight the Yi just moves in and penta kills us while melting me easily.

There is no way you can tell me this is in any way balanced. The ult lasts way too long. There is no reason to be doing true damage instead of physical. Alpha strike does not need 600 range. A melee champion should be just that, melee. Meditate should reduce defenses, not increase it.

This champion is completely toxic to the game and needs major nerfs.

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137 Comments

Infernape8/27/2018, 11:49:31 AM47 votes

It's not that he's overpowered, there's no actual counterplay to his kit aside from "CC him", which applies to all champs.

Because 100% of his damage comes from unavoidable AAs, there is no way to actually counter his damage. Especially considering Yi typically builds Bloodrazor and Guinsoo's, has true damage built into his kit and commonly runs Conqueror, it means that your armour purchases aren't as lucrative compared to against a champion like Tryndamere and Yasuo.

Beatrice falls8/27/2018, 11:41:30 AM28 votes

"Just cc him" https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/455110895551381504/482277227606835211/85a.jpg

Remove conqueror.

Jamaree8/27/2018, 8:30:54 AM16 votes

What account was this game on?

Daddy Ants8/27/2018, 7:01:22 PM12 votes

An Anti tank champion melting a tank.

Oh the madness!

Blu 18/27/2018, 2:03:42 PM12 votes

jUsT cC hIM bRO LMaO

Guzergus8/27/2018, 12:58:46 PM10 votes

This champion is completely toxic to the game and needs major nerfs.

I haven't seen yi on any decent mmr, much less pro play. Do you have any evidence to back your claims up, e.g. his overly high win rate, ban rate, etc?

Noor Sakata8/27/2018, 3:27:55 PM10 votes

I remember when I used to complain about him before Conqurer but people downvoted me , and they realized this after that rune was released Edit : most of Yi players are using Lethal Tempo anyway , so it's not only about that new rune , just like what happened with Wukong , he was always 1 shooting people , but people started complaining only when Stormrazor was released , while not all wukong players would build it anyway and they don't even need it to 1 shoot anyway

Carnicore8/27/2018, 7:34:04 PM8 votes

Master Yi has a 44% winrate against Rammus. Rammus beats Master Yi, you just played the matchup wrong or he got lucky kills off your teammates. At a glance, it looks like your bottom lane fed him.
Master Yi cannot simply Alpha Strike every CC and kill everyone. Unless your team has like, 1 stun and no damage. Alpha Strike is used to dodge CC, but also to gapclose and avoid damage.
Meditate is only 50-70% damage reduction, and it's easily interrupted. He really can't tank that much with it.
That Master Yi was fed out of his mind and built all damage items, of course he melts your whole team.
Highlander only lasts 7 seconds until he gets a kill or assist. After that though, the duration can get pretty crazy - like 40 seconds. The base duration sucks compared to similar ultimates but the +7 for each kill/assist is too much.
Master Yi would be much more unbalanced if he dealt physical damage instead of true damage with Wuju Style. The damage would have to be higher (because that would be a huge nerf otherwise) and he would kill squishies almost instantly, while being totally unable to deal with tanks.
Alpha Strike need 600 range because he needs as much mobility as he can get. He's melee and he can't be tanking damage for very long.
He really can't lifesteal that much because a lot of his damage is actually coming from on-hit effects, which do not apply lifestal.

Your teamcomp could've very easily dealt with Master Yi. You have tons of CC and damage, and you had like 2 and a half tanks. Fun fact - Singed can counter Master Yi by using his glue, because Alpha Strike can't be used when you're grounded.

Hayaishi8/27/2018, 11:54:32 AM8 votes

Problem with Yi is his inmune to slows so he's impossible to kite. You either blow him or get aced.

Handy Sandy 8/27/2018, 10:05:30 PM6 votes

Can i see a replay of this because this seems very exaggerated.

It's not even on the same account and you censored the names on the image link you commented so there's no way for anyone to confirm this except you. Seems a little weird.

Child of the Pit8/27/2018, 3:50:37 PM5 votes

I will have to ask you to link me to said match, as your match history contains... mainly anivia.

But even without see'ing it i can tell that Master Yi does too much TRUE DAMAGE nowadays, an obvious counter to Yi is Rammus, and if even he can get melted by the ridiculours amounts of true damage (witnessed by myself) then it is just a testament to the approval of the overall true damage creep in this game being too high.

rayzo8/27/2018, 11:21:56 PM4 votes

To be fair, with a team that bad, you aren't winning any game regardless of champs.

Sharpest glasses8/27/2018, 11:22:50 PM3 votes

This champion is completely toxic to the game and needs major nerfs.

come on, you play Rammus

Yeah, he need a rework (same for rammus), but the biggest issue is item 3715

You had a great team to controle him. i really think you (whole team) f*cked up, more than him being broken

Vztah8/27/2018, 11:10:43 PM3 votes

feeders op

Jamaree8/27/2018, 8:45:34 PM3 votes

So no one want to talk about how he was fed out his mind and the team comp to fight him was subpar, no, ok.

hhaavviikk8/28/2018, 7:11:47 AM3 votes

plenty of champions have been nerfed/reworked for being stat checks, and yet here we have master yi, the champion of all stat checks getting buffs and not being reworked

Fourth Shot IV8/28/2018, 11:48:50 AM2 votes

master yi is a much worse case of a stat check than aatrox ever was , I really hope that riot finds a way to fix this cancerous stat check champ

Bjørnetjenesten8/28/2018, 10:41:07 AM2 votes

Everyone knows his damage is pretty much cancer level, especially combined with conqueror + item 3124 + item 3508 .

Insane 1v1 potential
Insane AOE dmg at the same time
30% is true dmg
Insane tower take downs
Impossible to itemize vs since his ulti and 3 sources of true dmg counters , ,

Sure you can use all your CC to chain him down and kill him, but now you have wasted all the CC meant for the other carries.

Lategame he gets item 3026 , item 3139 and item 3053 and now you need to send 3-4 man to stop him and use all your CC and sums to kill him. Meanwhile their team can take any objective for free and push down the other towers. Lets say you chose to engage their team 4v5 while yi splitpushes. You manage to kill their carries and the fight is going well, but you cc is down and you entire team is low... Well yi already took the inhib.. and now he is running at at you, pressing q, aa, q and you entire team has grey screen...

His winrate is 49%... so now he is recieving a huge buff on meditate for no reason at all. Its actually disgusting.

I honestly wish rito balance team would tell me what they are smoking... i need some of that shit every time i play this game

Onandaga8/27/2018, 10:59:30 PM2 votes

Uhmmm.....you forgot to mention your team even didn't have a marksmen or support. Yi capitalizes hard on punishing poor team compositions.