Yuumi is an Item, not a champion

Kaneís··11 votes·6,168 views

I feel like Yuumi is legit like the most useless champion in the game. Legit whenever I have her on my team it feels like it is a 4v5 and my ADC has an advanced active passive on them. Please, I beg you riot do something, make her a champion and not some item that only trolls use![sg-ahri-2]

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Tahminatrix 7 votes

Some people want to delete my new favorite item.

Glaricion4 votes

Yuumi is weak at the moment, but also suffers from ACTUALLY being a late-game champ w/ a weak early game.
People are also still picking flash on her as a standard pick instead of highly situational.

People are getting better at exploiting the fact that Yuumi can get down to 90hp and just be in stasis for as long as she wants, and how much psychological pressure that puts on the people who are laning against her.

Still incredibly weak as a lane support, but can be rather frustrating to play against.

Becomes a real thorn in her opponent's side once she gets to the part of the game where she's strong (few items on her and the teamfights are no longer small skirmishes), or even just once she can roam w/ someone who has a decent lead.

A few more tweaks and she'll probably be a balanced champion that is w/ the bottom 20 champs in terms of pickrate, but has a rather high "100+ games" winrate.

Lolalytics Winrate/Minute - Yuumi https://i.imgur.com/CGyp35p.png[]

Lystrates1 votes

I think you have it reverse. Her ratios are terrible and therefore she is strongest early game and weak late game. Sona scales infinately better in endgame.

Lets not forget Yuumi's abilities are not teamfight oriented which makes her near useless in teamfights.

Glaricion1 votes

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I think you have it reverse. Her ratios are terrible and therefore she is strongest early game and weak late game. Sona scales infinately better in endgame.

Lets not forget Yuumi's abilities are not teamfight oriented which makes her near useless in teamfights.

You have to remember that everything Yuumi does is multiplied the more 'health' she has, and how she's been observed to have (even by her creators) much more synergy w/ front liners. Though most supports are designed with the ADC in mind, Yuumi is one of the rare ones in which the win condition is consistently to support the other 3 members on her team.

Not only that, but her ultimate's rooting can be delayed for a very long time, allowing people who were 'waiting out' important spells and CCs to be rooted by the tail end of Yuumi's ult, or just to be caught by it as she's moving around the battlefield at a ridiculous rate.

Her ratios are garbage (at first glance) not because they don't scale, but because they scale ridiculously well in different ways.

Rikirie2 votes

I wish they'd just remove the q, just another enchanter with a poke + heal combo now with an afk button. I don't feel like i do anything besides ult. Her E is called zoomies so it scaling later is fine but I wish they'd have just given her a hard cc Q. Why is it a conditional slow? Slows are almost negligable with the amount of dashes and slow removals this game has.

Kaneís1 votes

I think they created an actual unique champion instead of making a rakan champion that is an Item. Just can't stand having her in my ranked games!

Rikirie1 votes

Let's look at the abilities enchanters have when you remove the Poke + heal/shield abilities they all share, specifically the remaining basic ability.

Bard Tunnel that creates escape/engage routes Soraka silence/root for zoning Rakan dash+knockup combo for (dis)engage Sona movement speed increase, aa modifier that creates a slow Yuumi %Adaptive damage

Having written to this point I forgot my original idea....but it suddenly clicked that her niche is that she can grant extra ad to champions that would rush ATK speed. So characters that kinda do there own thing anyway like Jhin Varus Kaisa?

I'm losing my point more and more but I don't want to delete this message.... enjoy this incoherent thought bubble

[sg-zephyr]

Tahminatrix 1 votes

She could be good with certain champions that NEED to build a bit tanky to function but have decent ratios on their abilities to where they could have gone full damage and 1v5

Say...for example... you give rhaast tons of ad....with your w passive...or...god forbid it...riven.

IP Masquerena2 votes

Yuumi also has the issue of "needs a team with a wallnut instead of a pea as brain", because she can't do anything solo, she needs her team.

A bad ADC will also make Yuumi look bad, and since we all know how ADCs work, "it's Yuumi's fault".

I think you does indeed need a few more minor buffs, BUT, if you have a good player on Yuumi and a team behind her, or well, in front of her, she's strong even now.

Akali Prime1 votes

buy one gold item at the start of the game, then build full ap after. there.

Sewer Side2 votes

With her ratios, you’re better off building AD.

Tahminatrix 1 votes

You need to go ap in order to utilize the w share the most, due to the way it interacts with item 3089 which might be the only potentially strong item that works with her kit.

Ad means you need to actually put yourself at risk in order to auto the enemy multiple times, and she is REALLY squishy.

Hong Kong Annie1 votes

In pane she does seem weak. But late game she might be the best enchanter to have on a team. Outside of Lulu for an assassin shut down, no Nami in a pick comp nobody else comes close.

Karn Bishop1 votes

Your just jealous, is this the first time you have ever met a strong independent item that can't be forced to stay with its abuser when the laning phase is over?

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