Funneling with Yuumi
I thought of this scenario last night, after seeing a Thread about Yuumi not being released/ shouldn't be released, and a comment about funneling, and watching some of her gameplay:
Can't Yuumi just backpack on a jungler with high mobility/gankability like
, and level faster than supporting bot, simply by mooching their kills and soaking ambient nearby minion death XP?
If you watch a lot of Yuumi play, something becomes obvious: She struggles in lanes with adc, because by attaching, she funnels all the damage taking to the adc and dies as a result.
Junglers on the other hand..... generally are designed to both engage AND peel 2+ targets while soaking damage. So as a result, most Yuumi play after lane phase is her attaching to a strong jungler.
I think this might be a serious concern, because there are junglers who literally gank lane after lane with enough frequency that backpacking on them would level and farm Yuumi just fine.... while making their (jungler's) ganks just immaculate.
Something I've already seen Yuumi backpacking a jungler do:
-Jungler initiates a fight under a turret. Yuumi skills after them, switching aggro. -Yuumi dies to turret aggro while buying jungler 2-4 Turret hits, and because Yuumi was never damage/targetted by the opposing champs, it's a clean int, and she gets her assists for the jungler's shutdowns.
ITS MEEEEEE level 2 with a SUPPORT OH HELLLLLLOOOOOO