Someone tell me how to fight Master Yi, I beg you.

Sassmast3r··4 votes·3,852 views

I am getting REALLY FRUSTRATED with Master Yi's being in 95% of the games I play. Although we can very infrequently ACTUALLY win against him, it is incredibly difficult. I have fought Katarina midlane before many times, and honestly, I don't know why everyone finds her to be so difficult until she ganks every single lane. In the laning phase, almost every midlaner I use trumps her (Lissandra, Cassiopeia - Even Karma works!). However, when Master Yi jungles, he legitimately ruins the entire game. First he ganks bot when they don't even need it. Then he camps/gets drag. Then when he's fed and the teamfights begin he destroys every single person without breaking a sweat and we end up losing. I am so flipping sick of fighting this champ. I honestly wish he would be nerfed to the ground, but until then, how can I counter this champ? Keep in mind the champ you recommend for me to counter him I will probably start using EVERY SINGLE GAME in hopes of reducing the popularity of Master Yi to that of Syndra or Urgot. Please, I beg you, tell me any champs that counter, how to counter, etc... I already know that "Hard CC" is great against him, and I fully realize that, however the only champion I have EVER used that has CC hard enough to even stand a chance against Master Yi is Lissandra, and thats ONLY because of her Ultimate, nothing else. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone who commented on this post felt the inexplicable need to tell me to learn LoL or play OP champs to compensate for lack of skill, in fact, I couldn't give a shit. But I hope that out of everyone who reads this post, SOMEONE will come to the rescue and actually tell me how to counter this satan reincarnate of a champ. Thank you :)

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Only Play Darius3 votes

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NeroYamatoX1 votes

To be fair i disagree with thornmail. After he has Botrk he doesn't really do much plus he has true damage. If you aren't a tank your not building a thornmail anyway.

Talamare3 votes

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Kamiroo Wolf3 votes

Here's a guide to counter any AD champions:

Champion required) Rammus

Build required) Rushitem 3075 Grabitem 3110 Take a item 3143

By now you should have 311+ armor and the rest of the build is up to you. Someone else do the calculations for me but Yi will just shred himself, and so will any Lee Sin ;P

Sassmast3r1 votes

Thank you so much!! And the best part is Rammus isn't OP, so I don't have to feel like a dick for using him :D. Once again, thank you so much :DD

Rasv3 votes

You should never feel like a dick for using someone who you think is OP. The best way to convince Riot to nerf something is for everyone to pick it and have an absurdly high win rate.

Sassmast3r1 votes

Is it really worth it in exchange for numerous people being unhappy after having played a game against one, especially considering the fact that Riot won't inevitably nerf that champ anyways - It's just hoping that they will. However I do see what you mean, and I thank you for making me think differently then I usually do.

By the way, Heimerdinger has yet to be nerfed, and he's number one when it comes to win rate... :c

And let's not forget Shitarina ;-;

BerserkInferno1 votes

It's absolutely worth it. That's the only way to bring things to riot's attention, they don't seem to read/ care about much that's on the boards.

BastionKross3 votes

Any hard CC will do him in. Landing that CC on a mobile champion like him is a different matter, but there's always Taric.

Nyaruko Chan3 votes

Get out of bronze. Seriously Yi is a terrible champ who is only a thing until after you get out of bronze. His only real purpose to stomp noobs who dont know what counter building or counter picking is. Yi first off is ungodly squishy. Since you will always just build him like an adc he will never have health. Second, Yi has no real answer to hard cc. None.

Meaning if he tries to run into the middle of a team fight and penta kill you just hit him with any form of hard cc and watch him melt. Seriously Yi's only real gap closer is his ability to run really fast and his Q potentially. He also isnt very strong early game at all. If your a mid laner just buy wards and ward up both sides of the mid lane and river. You will see him coming easily and he wont ever be able to do anything to you. If your playing support or adc just pick a support or adc with any form of cc or peel like Alistar, Thresh, Janna or Vayne, Graves, and Lucian. All of them have dashes or cc.

If your playing Jungle Master Yi should never be a problem for you. The moment you see somebody pick Master Yi immediately pick LeeSin and prepare to laugh.

Master Yi players will always go Devourer Enchant and try to hard farm the jungle. As I said earlier Master Yi is unbearably squishy at the start of the game. Just walk in his jungle as Lee Sin solo kill him while hes low from clearing his first camps. Take all of his jungle. Then just ward up his entire jungle and walk out. As soon as he respawns just go back in his jungle and kill him again. Theres few things more useless then a shut down Master Yi.

Sassmast3r1 votes

Thanks so much! Unfortunately I don't really ever plan on participating in ranked, so I hope Master Yi's popularity dies down someday, however your information was very helpful, thank you :)

b1TLHaKERl2 votes

Play Annie, Q + Ult = dead. W the rest, run away while spamming CTRL + 4

Arzath1 votes

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Play Annie, Q + Ult = dead. W the rest, run away while spamming CTRL + 4

Yes^^ just played yi vs annie the other day. wrekt me lol

Only Play Darius2 votes

The reason you are getting your ass kicked by Yi is because you have teammates that blow all their abilities on the closest target instead of the deadliest target. Most Yi's know this, which is why they enter teamfights a few seconds after they start, that way they can annihilate your team with no resistance because everyone is on cooldown. Your just going to have to deal with it until you start getting good teammates.

JTTCOTE1 votes

Pick someone with any CC at all and ping the hell out of Yi after you stun him.

NeroYamatoX1 votes

I mean you seem to already understand the weakness of Master Yi and how to play against him. Hard CC and Heavy Burst.

When you see Yi pop his ulti and run at your team EVERYONE should be turn their attention to him and pop him immediately. Save spells just for him. I jungle a lot and Master Yi is extremely hard to play when the enemy knows to save spells just for me.

Lissandra as you said in your post is godly vs Master Yi. Annie is great, Leona or Alistar as supports, Vi or J4 as junglers, almost all mid laners just simply because of pure damage.

TL:DR Communicate to your team to pop Yi, Stop diving for their ADC, Stop wasting ulti's and spells on tanks. Play back and POP YI. Group and Focus, focus, focus your CC and damage.

Sassmast3r1 votes

You have a fantastic point. Usually when I'm ADC as Quinn (favorite ADC omg), I'll try to overextend in lane and end up wasting my ult trying to finish someone off, and then he comes and double kills us while his ADC is at 1 hp and laughing their ass off. I will from now on remind my team to go for him the second he uses his ultimate. Thank you very much :)

Kamiroo Wolf1 votes

Just play Fiora Rammus Annie. Once went Fiora against Yi awhile ago and got 20 somethings kills during LANE phase.

If you REALLY want to beat Yi, then go all out with LeeSin; Pretty sure he counters everything ;D

OperationDEEZ11 votes

summoner 3 Is a great spell to take for it shuts down both his AD and AS.

Rasv1 votes

Ban Master Yi every game until you get out of bronze. After that, your team should be able to figure out how to hold their CC and focus him.

Duke Anax1 votes

Yi is extremely squishy especially when he builds no defense and early game he doesn't have the damage to burst you.

First rule, never run, you can't run from Yi. He will keep up and keep hitting you until you die.

However you can kill him more easily than you think, try it, always go all in against Yi early and keep him from rising, then he won't be a problem later either.

Retillin1 votes

Well what do you play, and where do you see Master Yi (ie top lane)? If you have to fight him in lane, take Quinn and laugh. Once you get her blind down, only his alpha strike will do damage to you. And once he alpha strikes you, just vault off him. If you do it correctly, it might take some time, you will end up ignoring about 3-4 seconds of damage. Add that in to Quinn doing wonderful amounts in a one v one fight, you should just make him cry.

Sassmast3r1 votes

That is actually really ironic, considering the fact that I took Quinn in the match that Master Yi was in (he was jungler btw) and he still absolutely destroyed me and my support, Leona. I was shocked actually, I thought both of us were some of the best counters to him in the entire game, but apparently we aren't, or we both suck REALLY BADLY. But thank you for your advice regardless :)

Moussetracks1 votes

Another thing that helps; if you have CC wait until he alpha strikes to you. He has no gap closer outside of a speed boost without it, and it's his main damaging ability so chances are he will lead with hit. Alpha strike puts him literally right on top of you.

So, the ideal situation is...

Alpha strikes you Use Swain W, Cho Q, Lissandra W, ect ??? Profit

Sir Yamazuki1 votes

Anyone saying Thornmail or FH is wrong. Thornmail will never kill a Yi, and FH does nothing when he ults since he's immune to all forms of slows while ulting. Yi is simply a champion you should never be 1v1ing unless you happen to be someone like Tryndamere, otherwise your team needs hard CC to prevent him from freely walking over your team. He excels at killing people 1v1, so never extend by yourself, and he's good at fights if his opposing team has nothing to stop him. If you are the adc, there is literally absolutely nothing you can do about Yi unless they are bad/really far behind, he's gaurenteed to kill adcs the moment he's in melee range of them, so it's 100% up to your team to stop him or 100% up to him on failing. If you're not adc, pick champions with hard CC.

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