Master Yi at his current state

Praginator··4 votes·829 views

Right now the winrate of ex-devourer junglers is mostly below 45% and I'd like to talk about that.

First of all I am austrian so dont rek me for doing grammatical errors etc.

So my main, Master Yi, is on 43% winrate. No, I am not here to say he was balanced the whole time and so on but I am having serious troubles playing him right now.

He got nerfed because of the hyper-synergy between his passive, sated devourer and guinsoos which was a good change but now he lacks damage. Not classical damage but enough damage to kill a traget in 3-4 seconds, because thats the maximum amount of time he has. It happens a lot that my ultimate goes off before I can get my first reset which limits his glass-canon potential.

I would suggest reverting the last Highlander tweak in order to give him the chance to stick to the target even after they used flash/mobility spells to escape.

That's just my opinion and I know that I will not earn sympathy for playing Master Yi.

10 Comments

Matsoman2 votes

Yeah I didn't think they would pull a Sejuani again. I remember when devourer was nerfed early S5 and item 1412 MasterYi was popular, hopefully it can still be as strong as it was before.

Also, watch out for mass downvotes, because people just got a break from the sated cancer Yi (not that Malzahar and the other mages are any better now).

Sasogwa1 votes

I think the accrued duration of 7 seconds per kill or assist is a huge unnecessary overkill, and 7 seconds duration without kills is a bit low. If we want to keep it as a 'nerf', I'd put the base duration to 8 or 9 seconds and duration increase to 5 or 6 seconds, maybe even 4 for all I care. Or just reduce the CD, now it's pretty crazy long. And it's pretty bad as it forces you to farm even more and wait super long to be able to fight cause you get way too kited without it (meanwhile junglers like kindred and nidalee can fight all the time, yi's extremely dependant on ult). Same would go to WW's cd ult actually.

Primaquarius1 votes

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Praginator1 votes

I havent tried this build but I will try it out.

Jeyce2 votes

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That is better, bloodrazor is trash and I don't see a use for black cleaver/frozen mallet, you can build lord dominik's and shred tanks anyway

ZeeWolfZ1 votes

Fuck Yi. Honestly, he deserved every punishment. He is a no skill, no brain, high reward, armor melting, true damage dealing, cc laughable, unstoppable death machine.

Praginator1 votes

thought the same after I started playing him against hard matchups ;)

ßurst1 votes

I mean they did the same with Fiora and now shes practically a similar pick as riven was a couple patches ago

MunchCrunchLunch1 votes

lol give him chance to stick to target after using flash? yeah use your own flash.

Praginator1 votes

thats how it works against immobile champs without cc.

  1. You spot an enemy and youre running towards it until youre in q range -around 1,5 seconds (which isnt smart anyways because after your alphastrike youre an easy target for cc)

  2. Casting Q -0,5secs

  3. Target using mobility spell and gettig extra range -again 1 sec to get to your enemy, Highlander has 4 seconds left.

  4. If target still has flash and you dont you will not get to him and youre an easykill for 85 seconds.

The problem is that yi cant kill someone within 4 seconds except anyone who is behind & squishy and/or youre fed like crazy.

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