Is it just me or is Master Yi still stupid strong?

LegacyDAP·Apr 6, 2016·3 votes·903 views

Like I'm kind of tired of getting rekt by a Master Yi with Devourer and Guinsoo's not even sated, just Devourer.

6 Comments

Sona PingMay 1, 20162 votes

It's you. He has poor performance when compared to other choices. Heck, Guinsoo's isn't even that good an item choice for him.

LegacyDAPMay 1, 20161 votes

Do me a favor. Look how long ago this post was. It wasn't me back then he still had the best performances.

Sona PingMay 1, 20162 votes

It's OurLestrade's fault. I don't know how he found this thread, but he put this thread at the top of the page.

P.S. Since you asked me to, I did look at how long ago this thread was.

It was made POST patch 6.6, which had the Titanic Hydra nerf and the change to Yi's scalings, which were both nerfs to his meta build at that time. And even before that he had poor performance compared to other choices (discounting low elo ofc) and Guinsoo still wasn't that good an item choice on him and on top of that, builds using it had markedly worse statistical performance. So yeah, you were still mistaken about this at that time.

LegacyDAPMay 2, 20161 votes

Nope he was still one of the best junglers according to the statistics. I'm not really gonna argue on this topic anymore though considering it's pointless

MaikalApr 6, 20161 votes

Win rate wise, no. He went down quite a bit but is still seeing really high ban rates.

Gameplay wise, he still snowballs really hard with the broken semi-offense semi-defense itemization and guinsoos (Even devourer tbh) because those items are too cost efficient. So if he gets ahead, he will still be stupid strong and really snow bally. Next patch's nerfs will gut glass cannon Yi, and he'll be forced to continue building current unhealthy items to survive, until those items get nerfed/replaced/rebalanced or w/e too eventually (Which, thankfully, they've mentioned they will do in the state of the season post). Sucks for a Yi main like me though because Riot usually doesn't revert champion nerfs that were caused by items after they nerf the actual item (See: item 1401 ). He won't even have any hope of being a reset carry after those changes, he has to be built as a bruiser because he can't survive for 4 seconds with a glass cannon build in the middle of the enemy team after a 50% reset.