Why is he so busted right now?
His damage is absurd and armor is POINTLESS. Why is this guy still a thing?
Literally, no tank items matter against this guy.
I wholeheartedly laugh at people who are so hateful towards champs like Yas when I'd rather play vs a yas than a yi every time.
Yi mains "but muh auto attack champ that lets stats do everything for me"
At least yas players have to be somewhat good with the champion.
Glîtchy34 votes
Are all current meta, I call it..... black-n-white screen meta
Poske7 votes
Are all current meta, I call it..... black-n-white screen meta
Kha zix is not meta (he has been meta for like 2 years untill very recently) Katarina is not meta well she is always meta in low elo tho
you are correct on others
ninjaroxas2 votesDamn what am I missing when did kindred become meta?
Poske2 votesDamn what am I missing when did kindred become meta?
Recently
Overcompensated because muh scuttle contesting
LuthianDelphi3 votesTbf, atleast kindred isnt a stat check champion. Her marks are contestable if u got a competent midlaner who roams and overall it requires alot more skill to kill someone w/ her than it does any of the aforementioned assassins, also having an ADC that spikes earlier than 3 items like all the other ADC's in the game -Kindred only really needs warriors and runnans- is really helpful in the current meta where most teams don't have an ADC. Gives her more value, not just that her dmg or numbers are high.
Dream High1 votesThe only time i ever see Katerina is when she's being 1 tricked or being used by smurfs to abuse low elo. Either way she's not healthy for the game.
CoffeeCKDD1 votesNERF LETHALITY
Akali Prime2 votesgood to see kindreds back atleast. maybe theyll give her skin.
MadSeer9 votesFeels wrong that an assassin can bypass everything a tank has in his arsenal. Oh, he has a lot of MS, AS and physical damage? Guess I could build a Frozen Heart and a Randuin's! Nop, because he's also immune to slows. I mean there are clear ways to counter a Master Yi, but they're specific champions, not items, which is frustrating because it means you either have these champs and shut him down or you're screwed because he'll fly right past every resistance or disable items have.
CodeNightFall2 votesWait. Does Yi's Ult counter attack speed slows? Ive been thinking of playing 
into him
KVbqbFsC8e3 votesIt makes him immune to all attack speed slows. Nasus W will not help you.
Daddy Ants1 votes[{quoted}](name=The Big Piece,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=ewAZExGY,comment-id=000400000000,timestamp=2018-07-09T06:42:13.061+0000)
It makes him immune to all attack speed slows. Nasus W will not help you.
No slows work on him.
Attack speed or movement speed slows.
CodeNightFall1 votesWhat the fuck thats broken.
Bob the Toastr9 votesUnfortunately it does. I feel like that is a point where they could give a little counterplay against Yi is keeping the movement speed slow immunity but allowing his attack speed to be slowed. That way you could build against him.
TonyTonyMordecai2 votesI honestly thought the attack speed slow while his ult was on was a thing at one point, or am I going nuts?
Bob the Toastr1 votesI thought so too but I just dug through the entire history of changes and couldn't find it anywhere.
BobaFlautist1 votesIt always was but it used to be considered a bug, until Riot made it official that slow immunuty/reduction applies to attack speed slows.
Vekkna1 votesYeah, he's immune to slow and cripple during ult. What's worse is that his slow immunity also negates all the other effects of Exhaust for some unknown reason.
Red Wreckage3 voteshe has not been an assassin for a long long time now...
he is something like a light fighter/skirmisher/melee hyper-carry.
also his kit + 
is made for chopping down tanks into little shreds.
Baron of Bread3 votesYi isn't really an assassin, he is a melee carry. Tanks are supposed to be things he kills if they don't have a burst champion around to follow up their cc.
Hrolfgord6 votesYi is also bad because he's real easy as a "pub stomper" so for less experienced players they get a little behind then boom they can't do anything because a 2 item Yi is destroying them with little to nothing they can do about it
FCJAAAAGOOOO2 votesThis right here
of all the champs deserving of on-kill reset abilities, Yi isn't one of them
I am 124 votesI think riot actually should nerf yi's true damage scaling since they gave him a huge buff with the new essence reaver.
Malak4 votesI think Yi is a good champion for league.
He's the traditional melee hyper carry. When I played Yi, I stomped, yes, but I also got one shotted by assassins and CC was a death sentence. You have to make sure to dodge with Q or you pretty much insta die.
All these yi threads are pointless - try playing him for 50 games
Holgranth3 votesYi has NEVER been a good design.
AbsoluteMadmann2 votesjust dodge the alpha strike and cc bro XddDDd
kagepaladin2 votesno, not at all. I have started calling yi the ticking time bomb, cause unless you win the game really early Yi will eventually get to the point where he just get's 
and 
or and will start one shotting people, which is just ridiculous in my opinion.
FakeGravity2 votesyi is one of those champions that is completely useless when behind, you are better off having teemo tank than a yi that is behind but... riot use that excuse as counterplay and the "CC shut him down" when in reality a feed yi (or a funneled yi) obliterate all he touches he isnt healthy and he need damage shave off in favor of outplay potencial, his ult could get removed entirely and change by something more amusing
Wicked FlamezZ2 votesThe fact that Yi has 100-0 me in ~2 seconds with Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Randuins is actually unreal.
Baron of Bread2 votesThat's probably because you have very little health in that build and he has a lot of true damage. Resists are great but you need health to back them up.
Wicked FlamezZ1 votesBoth thornmail and randuins have HP...Not to mention sion already has a shit ton of base health... If your trying to argue that yi should kill a sion with 3 armor/hp items in 2 seconds how long should it take to kill a mage or adc? 0.1 seconds? Sounds fair.
Baron of Bread1 votesThornmail is pretty low as far as health goes (just 100 more than a health crystal), Frozen Heart has 0 health, and Sion actually has really low base health (the W passive makes up for it). Frozen Heart and Randuin's Omen also don't get to affect Yi with their passives because of his ult. You pretty much went straight into the worst items against Yi you could, at least if he isn't going crit which he probably isn't.
I would recommend getting something like a Sterak's instead of Thornmail (which you don't want to stack with Randuin's anyway, unique passives and such) and something with health rather than the Frozen Heart, even if it is an MR item. Sion is also one of the worst champions to deal with Yi on since you will never cc him outside of the occasional point-blank R, but you can't always avoid the match up.
As for killing squishies, Yi probably does it in closer to a second if you don't include the time for Alpha Strike. However, if you keep track of where he will come out of Alpha, even Sion can land cc.
Hyquiem1 votesYi was one of my first and he was fest or famine, at that time jungle had a lot of pressure, so yeah it wasn’t farm so I become op it was camping certain lanes to be fed. Yes if I became fed I would be a monster An day if I didn’t I would scale as hard. IMO he was healthy until riot went and made changes around champions to make him strong.
Seer of Mind1 votesreally we just need to nerf , it acts as a Giant Slayer pretty much, no good way to build against it unless you get 
and hope that you'll last long enough that you won't get cleaned up immediately
strut1 votesJuSt Cc HiM nOoB
Quinzley1 votesSame thing with Kai'sa once she gets some items.
SlashStriker1 votes[deleted]
HungryAngry2SPP1 votesTaric+Yi
The Space Cowboy1 votesDoes challenging smite work? I guess it’d only reduce his non true damage.
R31W1NG1 votes[{quoted}](name=The Space Cowboy,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=ewAZExGY,comment-id=0016,timestamp=2018-07-09T20:17:24.540+0000)
Does challenging smite work? I guess it’d only reduce his non true damage.
challenging smite reduces all damage
The Space Cowboy1 votesWell then the new yi counter should be 5 smite comps lol
ChaddyFantome1 votesOfc he isn't. has always basically been the OG Yasuo. lol.
Just eb glad this isn't season 3.
AP Yi never forghetti.
Morgana Excel1 votesYi would be completely balanced if Alpha strike didn't let him dodge cc/skill shots. Easy fix.
kurnubego1 votesI think at this point there was a thread like this for each and every champion.
Yes, he is. Distinct strong points, distinct weak points.
Glîtchy2 votesI think at this point there was a thread like this for each and every champion.
Yes, he is. Distinct strong points, distinct weak points.
CC doesn't count as a weak point, almost every champ shares that
kurnubego1 votesNo, not really.
There are champions which have less predicable move patterns. And thus can only be reliably cc'ed by point and click abilities. There is also champions who stay out of range and can't be cc'ed reliably by point n click (short range abilites) or can dodge long range ones without much issue. And there are bulkier champions who may also build tenacity and getting cc'ed doesn't mean death by default.
"But Q!" Q is predictable move pattern. And only useful against players who blow their cc right away. When in fact it's reliable move pattern which allows to trap him, since you know where exactly he gonna appear after a second.
So no. It's not the same. Far from it.
