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Is Master Yi ever gonna get a rework ?

Never FF Boy·5/15/2017, 2:50:25 PM·21 votes·3,464 views

Since his 2 nerf (maybe even before), and the meta changing, Master Yi has many issues for too long now.

You can't play him in lane anymore, he's not relevant mid or top lane like he used to. The goal in his previous rework was to make him playable in lane too, that's not the case now.
He supposed to build Crit/AS but you can't do that anymore because the game has way more CC/burst than before, and right now he depend way too much on your comp or the enemy comp. He's pretty much force to play like a bruiser even tho he shouldn't.
In Jungle he bring pretty much nothing to his team expect damage, but he has no early presence too. And If he ever fall behind since he only bring damage, your team is in a pure 4v5.
He's pretty much completely useless without his ult, since the ult got nerf, you run at the ennemy and by the time you get close, your ult is almost finished and you're so easy to kite, even worse when they got high move speed/dash (hello Ahri), and since you have one of the smallest melee range in the game, that's pretty fun.

Now, don't get me wrong, he's not trash, but he has too many gameplay issues for way too long now and definitely need a rework.

57 Comments

Dysnomia5/15/2017, 4:00:55 PM15 votes

Some champs are designed to be played in the jungle. He needs rework for sure, but from what i understood you are saying that he is under-powered which is clearly bs.

The Yetii Rider5/15/2017, 5:28:55 PM5 votes

Master Yi already got one rework. He can wait his turn. Evelyn, Nunu, Urgot and Irelia all have much larger gameplay issues.

Jbels5/15/2017, 4:02:41 PM2 votes

Actually this patch should be much more favorable for Yi, what with tanks being weaker than they were. In fact, I barely see people playing tanks that aren't Galio or Sejuani, and most of the time she's banned anyway

Light Sovereign5/15/2017, 3:54:31 PM2 votes

Give em the Fiora Treatment.

Manadar5/16/2017, 3:37:24 PM1 votes

All wrong.

We are currently in a split push meta making Yi a very effective top laner who can beat a lot of top picks ATM (irelia, fiora) and pretty much shits on tanks after 1 item. Just beware hard counters like pantheon or Jax and you will be fine top. As for mid lane yi will easily beat other assassin's in damage output.
You can build pretty much anything non AP and be effective. I would argue a high atsp damage build with the new ga br/boots/bork/ga/pd/ie in that order, high impact in tfs and easily able to stop popular split pushers in this meta.
You're correct he only brings damage but it's such high damage only a few champs in the game can confront Yi 1v1 making his pressure on the map insane as you often need 2 or even 3 to kill or force yi to flee. It's also almost impossible to be behind as yi because he's a power farmer, I'm often ahead of my solo laners in many games just farming the jg with a kill or 2.
Ult timing is what separates the good and bad yi players, you don't ult to a TF you ult IN a tf. Yi is the hardest champ to kite in the game full stop due to the mechanics of alpha strike combined with the movespeed of Highlander.

Tldr - If you can't one trick yi to at least high plat it's a user error on your part.

FEEDlNG TIME5/17/2017, 6:46:48 AM1 votes

Just delete him

masterChief3149/14/2017, 7:06:39 AM1 votes

As far as the attack speed/crit. build goes, Silencee has THRIVED on that type of damage build. Look at his games and you'll see he builds almost the same thing all the time. Also, if you look at his games carefully, in the early game he does use Yi to make a huge impact not by confronting the jungler or laners too often but by stealing the jungle camps, which Yi can clear pretty quickly. So on the crit. build and early game arguments, it doesn't work with Yi. It depends on the player.

HOWEVER, as a Yi main myself, TWO things stick out about Yi that I wish they could fix in some way. One, he is EXTREMELY feast or famine. He has to keep up in his farm and get like 3 kills right after getting level 6 to really get his snowball rolling. He also has no team utility. The utilities he does have are only for himself and I rarely use his W for healing in teamfights since I could just mitigate all that damage with good Alpha Strike blinks, lifesteal, and red smite. Not to mention, using his W as an autoattack-reset defeats the purpose of a heal. I'd recommend if they change his W into something else that gives some sort of team utility. (I also had the idea of perhaps a CC effect that goes along with killing people with his ult, but that is something Darius has if I recall correctly on his ult.)