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Things about Master YI,Gameplay,Tweaks and Season 8

UnknownTerritory··1 votes·1,824 views

Hello guys my name is UnknownTerritory. Im from Europe nordic and east region.Today we are going to talk about Master Yi and some Game Changes. Before starting this i wan't to say that we are only players and our word can't make changes of the game. We are only giving our opinion about certain things and that's what we should do.I wan't to say that League of Legends is a huge game with alot of things.Changing Damage,Speed,Abilities of characters in game can either damage the gameplay or make it even better. So we are people just giving opinions about the game and the characters inside it and we hope riot would take a look. Now Riot don't have to agree with us i mean its their game and they can do whatever they wan't with it. I just wan't to point out they made alot of new things in League - Changing the client,champions,and more recently they made this Huge Update about combining runes and masteries together.

Today i want to talk about **Master Yi ** Master Yi abilities are connected with his auto attacking. From his E that gives bonus damage to his Ultimate that gives him additional attack speed and movement speed. I was playing against him past 1-2 weeks and something that really got my attention was that Master Yi Early Damage was a bit high. When he gets 1-2 kills its very easy for him to get a huge spike in Damage in the early game and the late game when he is fed its almost impossible to deal with him. Now some of you may say that i played only 1 game against him and now you are saying bullshit about the champion. But the thing is that almost every game i played against YI from season 8 was little bit pain. Its because of the Runes [you see Removing of the Old runes made a hole in League of Legends and now everything has to be reconstructed in order for everything to work properly. Im not talking only about Master YI optimization [Im talking that every champion in League of Legends now should get an optimization because of the new runes].The problem with Master Yi are that he deals alot of damage and here are the things that can be done to optimize him:

  1. Reworking The Champion [Now this option i think will take alot of time]

2 Changing his Auto Attack Animation [Remember how the Old Xin Zhao looked like? His auto animations were very solid and fast but now they are alot optimized - Now this seems to be the best option by far [To fix YI high damage]

3 Nerfing - This is good option too and it can be made

Now i want to point out again that i don't want to throw hate about the champion i just want to give my opinion and i want with the help of everybody to make the game more optimized and fun. Soon i will be talking about other champions too [How they can be optimized for the this coming season] If you really want to hear more stuff about champions and Gameplay please write a comment below.

19 Comments

MonsterKee2 votes

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=monsterkee Tbh master yi suck atm like really bad... For ppl who one trick him and master him dodging q shots a different story... CC kills yi CC kills yi CC kills yi.......

YareYareDeze1 votes

Master yi has a low win rate for an assassin he is a high risk high reward champion he works very well if you know your skill level outmatches the oppenent than u will have really high trouble dealing with him , But yi in his current form is one of the weakest (by that i mean situational) fighters/assassins so we are expecting a buff in the next patch or 2. This is the opinion from a mid elo d5 master yi main. The new runes made it possible for him to be played in more ways than just on hit effect but it still didnt make him stronger cus other champs have a higher benifit from the runes so yea yi needs a slight change/buff but not a nerf! MasterYi

UnknownTerritory1 votes

Then you should play more games against him if you say he is weak. His kit is designed to work with auto attacks and that gives him alot of power. So adjusting his auto attacks or abilities will make him optimized. Like xin zhao now XinZhao

YareYareDeze1 votes

Nobody plays him cus he isnt a safe pick so i cant do that. I play him enough to know that , He is quite easy to counter and im not talking about what everybody says just "hard cc him and he is useless" . I mean tabi boots and a bramble vest are gona hurt him more than u think and those are 2 , 1k gold items that nerf his power quite a lot cus he is still just an auto attacker, passive+e+r all depend on you aa somebody a lot and early game a lot of champs can just prevent yi from doing that later just build the items i said and trust me u wont get "1 shoot" by an attack speed master yi unless you facecheck bushes.

Sasogwa1 votes

Yi needs buffs and you actually have to be a god to make him work in decent elo with such an easy to play around champion. In any case, he needs buffing more than nerfing and even Riot recognized that. He's only somewhat good in the depths of low silver/bronze.

UnknownTerritory1 votes

Master Yi doesn't need buffs that will only make the champion even more OP. His E gives him bonus damage,His Q is strong,His ultimate gives him additional bonus attack and movement speed and when you add the bonus attack speed from this rune - Lethal TempoMasterYi he just kills one by one your team and you don't even have time to escape.Definitely he doesn't need a buff

Sasogwa1 votes

{quoted}

Master Yi doesn't need buffs that will only make the champion even more OP. His E gives him bonus damage,His Q is strong,His ultimate gives him additional bonus attack and movement speed and when you add the bonus attack speed from this rune - Lethal TempoMasterYi he just kills one by one your team and you don't even have time to escape.Definitely he doesn't need a buff

Even more OP? Okay. Yeah, yi's OP. Definitely. Who else? Trynd maybe? ZOMG CANT DIE BROKEN OP CHAMP?

... You have to realize that Yi has no CC whatsoever in his kit, he's immensely susceptible to CC and is way more easy to burst than previously, before runes reforged (because damage and burst in general is higher). Yi's niche is being one of the strongest duellists in the game if he manages to stay in contact to his target. Right now, he gets bursted down so hard he doesn't even work properly, he has to be fed or very significantly farmed to be relevant. This is more and more problematic for Yi the higher elo he gets. I can make Yi work pretty well until low plat, where I'm gonna struggle hard even though I'm diamond, just because the champion is bad and requires your opponent to kinda suck, really. I'd have much much more success with Jax, Nasus, which are, similarly, powerful duellists, but way more viable.

To conclude, If you're talking about Yi's duelling potential mid-lategame in a good old braindead melee scenario, Yi is insanely good. If you're talking about a normal League of Legends game, where people will play to their strengths and abuse their opponents as much as they can, Yi is trash.

PS : you seem to use the word "optimize" a lot. As a student in engineering that followed courses of linear and non-linear optimization, I don't think it means what you think it means.

Godspeed.

UnknownTerritory1 votes

From my perspective YI needs some tweaks before the Season 8 start. I think every champ needs

UnknownTerritory1 votes

Yeah master Yi is really not that strong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWDQBZ_QTGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwbSjBhfR90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH4lm4kths

Sasogwa1 votes

{quoted}

Yeah master Yi is really not that strong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWDQBZ_QTGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwbSjBhfR90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH4lm4kths

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAH Nightblue shit really?

You know he has thousands of click bait videos on every single champion claiming X is OP, and that he only plays on smurf to have good KDA, right?

You're not THAT new to the streaming scene and THAT gullible, are you?

YareYareDeze1 votes

Hey you know why i cant play more games vs him? Cus nobody plays him he is in a weaker spot im not saying he is useless but he still is one of the weakest fighters , a lot of times and a lot of people say even me lethal tempo isnt even the best one on master yi there are better runes on him anyway. I played way to many games with master yi and i know how he plays he needs a bit of love he is a high risk high reward champion stun him early game and he will have to stay away from anybody so just dont let him afk farm and u are fine. Ok those are 3 videos of a player who games. Those are 3 videos of the same player who even makes ad blitz seem OP/broken u know why? Only the videos he does really well are uploaded and edited . And those 3 games have quite some time between them.

UnknownTerritory1 votes

Hmm i don't agree with you buddy

YareYareDeze1 votes

Any other comment or just that? Cus Considering his winrate and the playrate i told u how he does it looks like u just dont seem to like his snowball potential but oh well he is an assassin . Looks like u just dislike to play vs yi but but doesnt seem like u can explain why u think he needs the tweeks u just want it.

Flavi Kang1 votes

S7 gold. S8 silver 2. Kinda explains why you wanted yi to be nerfed.

Get good at the game instead of complaining about yi.

XANNY PHANTOM1 votes

Lmao in last patch to has been buffed he has been struggling for a long time cc destroys hi so does burst the current meta is heavy cc JG tanks which destroy yi.evwn in 8.3 when they buffed him that he was struggling and needs gameplay change.to play yi effectively in a teamfight and throughout a game is not easy if the enemy team has cc especially if it's like Annie or lisandra who point and click cc completely destroys him.

XANNY PHANTOM1 votes

Lmao in last patch to has been buffed he has been struggling for a long time cc destroys hi so does burst the current meta is heavy cc JG tanks which destroy yi.evwn in 8.3 when they buffed him that he was struggling and needs gameplay change.to play yi effectively in a teamfight and throughout a game is not easy if the enemy team has cc especially if it's like Annie or lisandra who point and click cc completely destroys him.

130x1 votes

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Lmao in last patch to has been buffed he has been struggling for a long time cc destroys hi so does burst the current meta is heavy cc JG tanks which destroy yi.evwn in 8.3 when they buffed him that he was struggling and needs gameplay change.to play yi effectively in a teamfight and throughout a game is not easy if the enemy team has cc especially if it's like Annie or lisandra who point and click cc completely destroys him.

Last patch was a nerf not a buff. Nerfed the dmg mitigation of his w.

130x1 votes

Yi needs a buff, play him in gold+. He is just destroyed lead or no lead.

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