Removing Master Yi's immunity to attack speed reduction on Highlander

Icosagon·Aug 24, 2015·6 votes·1,250 views

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Seriously, if he finds you, you die (twice as fast if he's Sated). With that being said, given how much his damage spikes, I don't think it's unreasonable to allow Randuin's and Frozen Heart to actually be useful against something that strong. I don't believe any other champion is capable of immunity to attack speed reductions, though I could be wrong. Immunity to move speed slows is fine, immunity to attack speed reduction is not. Not in 2015. Not Sated Master Yi. No.

EDIT: or anything else that slows attack speed (e.g. Nasus Wither)

3 Comments

Sniper 0Aug 24, 20152 votes

Yi already has enough counter play. His kit needs a rework but they haven't mentioned. He's a lot weaker to hard cc because he has 0 cc to actually counter it himself. All you have to do is keep him locked down. If he's the only member with any damage output he will surely end up behind if you have a balanced team comp. Yi is just a one trick pony.

67chromeAug 24, 20152 votes

Yi's Highlander only provides immunity to AS slows that are tied to MS slows. If you're just talking an AS slow by themselves like Cold Steel or Ground Slam it still goes through. Exhaust was changed also ages ago to have the MS and AS portions split due to Yi specifically, so the AS reduction on that still hits him.

As for Nasus using Wither - lots of champions have bad matchups due to interactions like this. Quinn's kick isn't great into Draven's Stand Aside, Darius's ultimate is not great into an Aatrox revial, Ashe's CC is not great vs. Olaf, Nami's wave is not great vs. a Yasou, Yasou's wall is pretty useless vs. a Darius, etc.

Learning how to play around your opponent's strengths and your weaknesses is part of the game.