Yuumi Mains Please Help Me! I Need Some Sick Tips.

Ziggerath·1/23/2020, 7:56:46 PM·3 votes·4,588 views

I only occasionally play yuumi but i have a lot of fun playing her when i do.

lately since the nerfs, i feel like its a super challenge to lane properly and squeeze out wins late game.

I'm a hyper casual, any tips or build recommendations for her would be dank.

like Best way to to think about her lane strategy and priority?

what my goal in team fights should be?

how to roam properly?

champion synergies and counter picks? when should i pick Yuumi? (don't say never)

thanks

20 Comments

Emperør Rhaast1/23/2020, 10:07:54 PM4 votes

I'm a Yuumi main since she came to the PBE. I have plenty of experience to share with her! Some things you should know about the cat:

-She is always not gonna be great in solo q. You're team and adc reliant. Keep it in mind, there are better champs to climb with than Yuumi. But since you say you're a casual I assume you're looking for a fun support to play, in which case you're completely in the right place.

-You might get flame for picking her. It hasn't happened to me since her release when she had a 29% winrate but it still happens on ocassion - people don't like Yuumi on their team because she's seen as afk or useless.

  1. Builds: Athenes is always your first item, Yuumi is good at stacking it and it makes your healing crazy. It also gives Yuumi all the early stats she wants - AP, CDR, and mana regen. Second item is situational - if I'm ahead or I have an adc like Twitch, Kai'Sa, Kog'Maw, Jinx, etc then I'll go Ardent Censer. If I'm behind or my adc is something like an Ezreal or Jhin that doesn't benefit much from Ardent's attack speed then I'll build Redemption, or something like Crucible if their team is super CC heavy. After that, it's pretty situational. You can go Rabadons - it's expensive but it lets you give crazy AD/AP to whoever you attach to - Twin Shadows for pick potential, or Shurelyas to let your team engage.

  2. Lane strategy: Yuumi used to be able to dominate lane phase pretty well, since she had a passive shield, and if you poke her down it didn't matter much because as long as Yuumi's hp isn't 0 it doesn't really matter. Plus she could easily dodge skillshots with her W, when it didn't have a channel time. That isn't the case anymore, her passive shield and Q damage has been heavily nerfed, so you'll be forfeiting a lot of lane priority and trying to scale as best you can. How you play is dependant on both your ADC and the enemy botlane. If the enemy botlane is something weak like a Kog/Twitch paired with a Janna/Lulu and your adc is Draven/Lucian/Tristana then you can go pretty ham, you can try and get in constant poke with autos and Q's. However if the enemy botlane is something like Lucian/Braum and your adc is Jinx you need to play safe, get passive procs when it's safe to do so, and use the mana you restore to keep your ADC topped up.

  3. Team fights: Now this is tricky - Yuumi's latest changes aimed at encouraging her to attach to her ADC more, rather than a bruiser/juggernaut/assassin. Her E now grants attack speed, meaning staying on your ADC is beneficial, but at the same time, staying on your Malphite or Sejuani to speed up the engage with ult is great too. What I do is I usually hop onto a frontliner, so I can get an ult off to lock down the enemy team, then I'll hop to my ADC (Summon Aery procs Ardent, then my E attack speed stacks it and it results in some pretty insane stuff, especially if I've got a Kaisa or Jinx.) Teamfighting as Yuumi is kinda tricky because it's easy to misclick and attach to the wrong person or accidentally detach, you should try and hop onto people who are being jumped on and heal them up. Also, unless you're certain that enemy CC is down, don't detach to get a passive shield, it isn't worth it basically ever.

  4. Roaming: Generally, Yuumi isn't too good at roaming. Reason being - she rarely builds boots, so if she's caught by the enemy jungler or mid, she's dead since she only really has her E movespeed to get away. Couple this with the fact that she doesn't take flash and you won't get away if the enemy jungler or mid finds you. Especially if they're mobile. If yuumi does roam it'll be with someone, i.e her jungler or adc.

5.Synergies and counters:

Yuumi goes well with:

Lucian Yasuo Ezreal Sivir Darius Nasus Sett Kayn MasterYi Rengar Caitlyn

Yuumi counters: (She doesn't really counter anybody, but these are her easiest lanes:

Varus KogMaw Zyra Bard Brand Varus Morgana

Yuumi gets countered:

Thresh Blitzcrank Leona Draven Soraka (Before the next changes come with pach 10.2, Soraka's a hard counter since her silence disables your W) Draven plus any champ that can burst down her adc before she can heal them.

When to pick yuumi:

-When your team has good engage -When your team has a slippery, high-damage assassin like Kayn, you can make him immortal -Your ADC has decent self-peel (Ezreal, Lucian, Xayah, Sivir) -The enemy team doesn't have too much hard cc or pick potential relying on hard cc

When not to pick yuumi:

-Aggressive, hard-engage supports (your adc will be 1v2) -Your adc is reliant on an enchanter support to help them through laning phase (Kog, Jinx) -Your team isn't really looking to hard engage (think Neeko top, Ryze mid, Kindred jungle, and MissFortune adc

I might have missed out some things but if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. If you're looking to main Yuumi, do be prepared for the insane flame that comes with it, not only in-game but on places like the boards and reddit too. People hate Yuumi players.

Magnesium141/23/2020, 8:44:39 PM3 votes

Don't play the 2nd most worst support and one of the worst champions She is just way too weak You can play her for fun but not to win

EKamii1/23/2020, 10:33:53 PM3 votes

The other guy stating her counters is pretty much correct, but another counter to Yuumi is Soraka because of her Silence/Root, preventing you from W'ing back to your lane partner.

I wish I could give the advice I COULD have been able to give if Riot didn't butcher her into the ground, but she can still be useful.

Because of the nerfs, you're solely at the mercy of whoever you are on, because hopping off your teammates is just too risky due to the 5 second CD on W if you get hard CC'd. In Early game, you should atleast look for a suitable time to hop off your partner for a short second and use your passive to get mana back and hop back in as fast as possible. Make sure the enemy doesn't have or already used their hard CC before making the decision, because if you get caught, you're 99% dead.

Once you're in team fights, it's very risky to switch between teammates because if you get CC'd, you're 100% dead this time, so make sure you stick to someone you believe can dish out the most damage and carry the game. Don't even bother trying to use your passive AT ALL in team fights unless you're 100% confident you can make it back to your partner ALIVE. So in these cases, stick to someone you know will carry and win the fight, and keep them alive at all costs. It is OK to try to keep other teammates alive, just make the decisions wisely.

Because of the nerfs, it is much harder to be successful in lane, especially at the mercy of your lane partner. If they suck, you suck, it doesn't matter how good you are with Yuumi. Either communicate with your teammate and work around each other and the enemy, or pray that one of your other teammates starts carrying and stick to them instead.

On to roaming... NEVER EVER roam alone, because if you do, you are just a walking snacc waiting to be eaten by the enemy jungler. It's not a matter of WILL the enemy jungler kill you, it's a matter of WHEN. Don't take chances, stick with your teammates. It's OK to hop off and float alittle to ward a brush, but you must ALWAYS be in range of a teammate with your W, because you know what will happen if an enemy sees a tasty floating bag of gold. Roam ONLY with your teammates.

Make sure to use your ult when it can guaruntee a kill or a win in a fight, I'm not going to tell you exactly when or how, just follow your gut, just don't be an idiot like me. Just always use it in a teamfight for sure, it is Yuumi's strongest ability.

Builds? Rush item 3174 , then go in this order: item 3504 item 3107 The last two items can be whatever you want I guess, I don't know the latest Yuumi builds these days, but this is what I've been following for a while now. Oh yeah, and take summoner 3 andsummoner 14 . You don't need flash or even heal anymore, since you can't teleport with your teammates now T_T

That's about all I got to give now I think. Been maining Yuumi since Day 2. Don't like at all how Riot has been treating her, but that's just what happens when you main 2018/2019/2020 Reworks and Champions, because more often than not, Riot WILL kill them as a champion.

But anyway, have fun and good luck out there. Have fun with any champion you want. [sg-ahri-2]

Saezio1/23/2020, 9:48:03 PM3 votes

I came here to see if posters are in fact yuumi mains like OP asked tips from...

VonCesaw1/23/2020, 8:06:38 PM2 votes

Yuumi is countered by Nautilus Taric Leona Alistar Sona

Yuumi counters (I say counters, but they are just the ones that beat her less than the others) Shaco Lux Xerath Morgana Brand

Yuumi has special synergy with (Does not equal game won) (If you are duo with these champs you will do better. If you are not duo you will likely do worse) Ezreal Vayne Twitch TwistedFate Yasuo

Yuumi does well with Yasuo Ashe Sivir Lucian MissFortune

Currently she IS the worst support in the game, barring nonsupport players as nonsupporting champions forced to support She is almost exactly as good as the marksman you are paired with, if they were in the lane by themselves and had an occasional heal/slow and got free stats As a Yuumi player I say switch to Nami Janna Lulu They do her job but better, unless you plan on playing the ADC and the support at the same time

Troll Slaiyer1/23/2020, 11:57:42 PM2 votes

when u Q while attached, W to another ally to extend the Q reach . i dont really do that anymore after all the gutting her Q got but its something lol. do the same thing with her R. probably knew that already tho

i use to just poke and poke and poke but after her gutting, i max E for bigger heals and pray my adc plays smart. she just is really bad right now .

Fella Air1/24/2020, 12:39:21 AM2 votes

She synergizes well with mobile adcs who can take care of themselves. Tristana, Caitlyn and Kai Sa are prime examples. She struggles to help hypercarries who are vulnerable early, since they end up in essentially a 1v2. She struggles against hard engage such as Nautilus and Leona. She excels against other sustain champions such as Nami and Soraka because they generally don't engage that well (Unless the Nami is really good) and she can hold her own with sustain.

Don't roam on Yuumi, generally speaking. Boots are a waste of gold on her so walking between lanes is generally a waste of time. That said, if you have a duo in a solo lane that you trust and bot is going bad, sometimes it's best to swap over to helping them and leave your adc to feed for herself.

Goal in teamfights is primarily to lock down/peel as many enemies as you can with ult, followed by getting on top of your most fed member and spamming E. Try to slow fleeing enemies with Q. Wait for the enemy to use their hard CC and then hop out to get basic attacks for your passive- one of the most important and difficult parts about playing Yuumi is getting this right. It often makes the difference between winning and losing a fight.

Buy tear of the goddess, and I'm dead serious about that. If people ping you, mute them. She uses so much mana it's not even funny now that they increased the cost of her maxed E to 160 a pop. Aim to complete Archangels as a third or fourth item, or whenever the tear gets close to completion. It's a decent powerspike, but heal/shield items like Ardent and Mikhails are a much higher priority.

That's about all the advice I can think of atm. I don't play Yuumi that much, but I have been playing her since release and that includes when she only had like a 28% winrate- So I know a bit about what I'm talking about. Probably almost 100 games on her so far, Mastery 7.

Hope that helps.

EDIT: Remember to tell your ADC to not take teleport, since Yuumi no longer follows her ADC through TP. And of course bring exhaust ignite pretty much every game. If your adc wants to bring barrier, replace either exhaust or ignite with heal depending on the matchup. Exhaust is useless vs. true damage champs like Vayne, but helps against assassins like Zed. Ignite is very useful to counter heavy sustain such as Soraka.

Good luck. [slayer-jinx-wink]

Hydroxlic1/24/2020, 2:20:51 AM2 votes

Don't chase the red dot, it's a trap.

Nixzilla1/23/2020, 9:45:30 PM1 votes

Riot DESTROYED her, unless you really like playing her I would get someone new to try. She use to be one of the most fluid champs to play with a fun albeit busted kit. Now she's super clunky and garbage at everything. RIP Yuumi

Magapiff1/28/2020, 10:07:55 PM1 votes

have you guys tried APC Xerath with a Yuumi support. its a lotta fun in a duo lane from the fact Xerath outranges almost all adcs Yuumi's W passive makes his power spike come far sooner and her E's movement speed makes it easier for Xerath to Q people while charging it.

Dotty LB1/24/2020, 8:04:11 AM1 votes

Just switch to another enchanter, they are all better than Yuumi. They are trying to "buff" her to get skin sales out of her but those will either be not enough or reverted the minute she shows up in the :CS again. Not to mention that W change still feels awful.