Master YI 1v5

VindicatorVaynee··1 votes·1,414 views

I think you should delete the champion Master Yi. We all know how overpowered he is. Since the time he came out, weve seen nothing but intuitive game play. You can nerf him as many times as you want but nothing will work. Im saying this for the better of the game. I went in 1v5 and walked out untouched. Please balance this out, or simply delete Yi.

18 Comments

Only Play Darius6 votes

Yi is a snowball champ, his main weakness is squishiness. You were probably fed, which is why you could 1v5, but on even terms against a half decent team no Yi would last a second in a 1v5.

The reason Yi feels OP is because most Yi players enter fights a few seconds after they have started. Because most abilities are on cooldown, the threat of hard cc is reduced, and because most enemies are missing health, Yi can get a kill faster and get started on his reset rampage.

Yi is a cleanup champ, try entering a fight even with your team, he won't last a nanosecond.

DorkunedAuras2 votes

kinda like Kat, get CCed, and he's done.

GaleWinUnleashed4 votes

He's balanced out by being one of the squishiest champions in the game. Master Yi is mainly suitable for either very low or very high levels of play. In an average game he doesn't do nearly that well.

Commando Yi4 votes

good sir, i assure you yi is fine, infact he needs buffs D: !

there is a reason you never see him in competitive play these days

windwolf7771 votes

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good sir, i assure you yi is fine, infact he needs buffs D: !

there is a reason you never see him in competitive play these days

The sad thing is, I don't want him to get buffs because if he gets any play in comp he'll get nerfed because he can't go "LC$BIGPLAYS!!!"

windwolf7771 votes

Oh no no, I know of, and love watching Cow on yi. I mainly meant he doesn't make them because he's never played in competitive. Which tied into the previous point of not wanting him nerfed because of him doing well in competitive. But thanks for the montage. I'm already subbed. :)

wolfax1 votes

Yi is a pubstomper champion that gets exponentially worse as you go up the ladder. He's dubious in silver, and past that he's a liability.

BluePolarizer2 votes

I had 200+ games on Yi in high gold/low plat with a 59% win rate season 4. While I was climbing I peaked at 68% win rate.

Yi is much more high skillcap than most ppl think.

Only Play Darius1 votes

You have to get the timing on point with his Q and W to really unlock his full potential, another thing is that positioning and threat analysis is more important with Yi than most champs.

Look at Cowsep and you will see that Yi has a very high skillcap.

BluePolarizer2 votes

exactly. the bronze Yi spams Q as a gapcloser, uses W to heal jungle damage and focuses the mid with Zhonya's or the ADC with GA blindly while running down mid in a straight line.

the higher elo Yi flanks and focuses the squishiest to instantly delete them then go on a reset rampage, dodges Zed ults/blocks Zed ults with Q or W, and abuses W's autoattack reset early game to get in that 1 extra auto for a chilling smite or Q to finish them.

And then, there's cowsep.

BluePolarizer1 votes

You are playing in lvl. 25. In high elo Yi can't 1v5 but is also much harder to play effectively.

Only Play Darius1 votes

I love playing Yi on my lvl 13 smurf, where most teams don't even have a jungler so i can get fed off easy ganks and level up faster than most of the other team.

These low level players unload all their hard cc on the tank, so i just show up a few seconds later and get quadrakills.

Autolock Zed1 votes

im done, he talks like he was there when master yi came out.

FantasySniper1 votes

If you got 2+ good kiting tools, Yi is worthless, just like every other mADC that isn't Udyr.

VancLucian1 votes

Omg shut up i have master yi headhunter riot do not delet him

Sniper 01 votes

Zac I'll just leave this here.

Cut the guy some slack though. He's sub 30. He's just getting into the game. He doesn't really understand the ins and outs of the game yet. Yi's kit need an overhaul. At the moment he's really easy to counterplay if you know what you're doing. At lower elo's he's really easy to take advantage of because no one know's what the hell they're doing.

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

He is not that squishy - he has more hp lvl 18 than most of the champions - he is in the top 16 high hp lvl 18. Also meditate makes him kind of tanky for some seconds. Also Cowsep is the most overrated Yi player - watch his stream sometimes, he usually trolls and gets multi-kills only because his opponents go in retard mode. Spamming Q and dodging some shit = pro play, yeah...

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