More Unneeded Master Yi Nerfs ?

R0cks31·10/30/2016, 5:06:49 PM·2 votes·714 views

I was looking at the season 7 changes and most the changes are more indirect nerfs to a Master Yi who literally has about the worst winrate in jungle atm and can only jungle list of nerfs below .

The fervor change to ad from on hit its going from 118 on hit to 69 ad now this one would not be so bad if 2 things were different E's damage went up as you gained the AD atm when you hit E thats the true damage you get even if AD goes up .

Next double strike applies full on hit damage but only half AD so its obviously a nerf on that the only time the AD can be good is with Crit but its basicly making a champ with a terrible early game even worse early and buffing things that use ad ratios like lee sin stronger early and late game as well .

Now some item nerfs Ghostblade no longer gives attack speed this is pretty obvious this hurts Yi more then most champs since he is auto attacked based unlike most assassins . Now indirect nerfs the fact that alll the assassins are kinda getting stronger late games takes away from yi being able to split push since they can burst him even with some defense stats and a yi with no damage is kinda useless so you have to pick between being instant bursted or doing no damage both are rather bad choices .

Now the stealth changes highlander has 7 seconds when you 1v1 people to get a kill atm pink wards don't even work vs most stealth champs cause of the stealth rework this makes its hard to get resets and harder to 1v1 people I always thought cause of master yi lore this would be an interesting buff to this champ to give him true vision and the fact he has 7 eyes lol .

This one is another small indirect nerf the krugs atm give yi an amazing early game clear with the stun buff which is getting removed so clears become harder on a champ that already struggles early game but atleast can power farm .

I feel atm Yi needs some pretty big buffs i was a master yi main for 2 seasons but atm i won't even play him in ranked i feel i am hurting my team too much with the fact he is easy to invade offers almost no early game pressure his level 6 is kinda shit now too atm with the highlander nerfs .

He lost his late game when sated got removed and rageblade got gutted to where no one builds it .

This champ legit just needs some buffs to his kit that give him a power spike at some point in the game atm he is a useless champ if behind has no CC can't go tank early or literally does no damage with no cc like i said and then to make it worse a champ with a bad early game does not even get a good late game anymore .

Also i am aware most on hit champs are going through this atm but I feel yi got hit by far the hardest since he got the biggest nerfs and relied on sated the most .

1 Comments

FireDrizzle10/30/2016, 7:59:54 PM1 votes

The fervor change forces you to go crit definatley(which I dont like at all) but I'm not sure its a nerf to yi, not without knowing what build is best. i calculated that 70% crit is slightly better damage on autos with the new fervor, could someone double check that? I've seen far more indepth calculations done. If you match the autoattack damage with crit you will be stronger due to the ad scalings benefitting from the new fervor. A adc with 80% crit will get extra auto damage, like adcs need extra damage late... About getting bursted by assassins, You may beat some assasins if you get the spellshield item or if you get the drop on them. But idk.

Kayle will have to go Crit with Fervour or ap with deathfire now? My Muramana build will scale harder but I wont have any damage early...