Is Tank Yi a thing?

Yi can be an effective Bruiser with half damage half tank items, but full tank Yi is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard. He has zero cc, zero utility, and nonexistant base damage. It would rely entirely on the enemy team falling for his global taunt, which doesn't happen outside of Bronze 5 where people actually press tab and check the enemy item sets.

Only abusing BORK + devourer combo. Yi isn't even good unless he has expensive items or is supersaiyan with ult or ghostblade active.

Most yi's go full damage, but i saw an yi that builted 2 tank items, still with some crit chance and atack speed. He also had a lulu in his team. Tons of damage and impossible to kill, especially with lulu's ult and shield. the other 3 in his team sucked, but he pretty much could 2vs5 our team with lulu's help

look up cowseps tank yi though in reality that is THE COWSEP

Okay so I guess bruiser YI is a more appropriate title for what I did then.

depend on what you mean with tank you can go devour botrk into tank but you should have one other ad item to boost your b true damage on hit. either maw or bt. you need two defensive and two offensive items. the third is optional but i prefer bt or maw. raw ad is what you need. full tank yi is not a thing and really really useless. i guess you still can go full ad yi like ie, yumo, botrk, botrk. something like that.

funny story

i thought i was playing draft normals with my friend, so i autolock yi jungle just to fuck around and troll

i end up being put into ranked

ended up doing well though because botrk + sated into full tank is dumb af on yi

went 15-6 and had the highest damage in the whole game with just 2 damage items