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It's because he has a very simple kit and doesn't really feel very interactive when facing.

I'm not saying Yi doesn't have a good ceiling, but his floor is low.

He is an auto attack based champion, yes his kit allows for improvement, and a big difference between mechanical gods and noobs, but most of the time he is basically used the same, you just press R use Q and go auto attack shit until it dies and hope that you live.

^ This. I have never really felt outplayed by in playing this game for 6 years. Its either he is underfed and goes in at wrong time to be cc'd and die or he is fed and instant kills everyone. Just a really overall unhealthy kit.

Even though I have hated the champ since I started playing I don't think he OP. I just think his kit is stupid and don't see why Riot has not reworked it forever ago. Alpha strike is a cool concept but the rest of his kit is super simplex and boring. I can't use the worlds skill to describe playing the champion (even though I know at high elo it takes skill to play him) and his floor is slow low you get so many new players playing him with hardly any understanding of the game but if they get a couple items can still easily win a fight for their team.