I love yuumi!

YuumiSoThicc··3 votes·1,848 views

I love yuumi. Let me explain why.

Many people are currently upset about yuumies sitting on their shoulder a lot and for a min I thought the issue was me (I know a good bit of it was because I'm trying to learn the champ but matchmaking put me as secondary all day -.-). I was forced to go my secondary again but this time I was on the receiving end of yuumi support and holy sweaty Jesus balls I loved it! I loved having yuumi sitting on my shoulder. She's such a forgiving champ if players stay close enough for her to get outta Dodge if she messes up. Many folks can't see the appeal but from both playing her and with her, the appeal to this champ are clear.

  1. She is the most forgiving support in the game. Forgiving in the sense of them getting caught and whatnot. If the adc or an ally is close she can likely get out alive.

  2. alright this one is what I realized while playing with yuumi. She frees you up. As adc xayah with yuumi vs a cait rakan lane, I can tell you I have not felt so good playing adc. The first time in years I've actually grinned not because we are winning, but just because of how good it felt. I was freed (for the most part) of having to actually worry about them feeding. I didn't have to pay attention to them and I still had support unlike an afk soraka for example. I was able to play naturally and boi, we dominated lane until a couple of 4 man ganks I didn't pay attention to. Even while we were loosing, I grinned because of how good it felt to not have to actually worry about my support. Instead of having to worry about 4 folks bot, me my laner and both opponents, I only had to worry about 3. It was bloody liberating and I really was able to shine and be happy even in a loss. It was genuine happiness too.

TLDR; Yuumi is good, needs a couple of tweaks while playing her, make her a actually have a detonation and make her ult do a wee bit more damage and she's perfect. She frees up the adc to where they don't have to focus on them while still being useful. Nice job riot!!

6 Comments

Kai Guy2 votes

I disagree with 1.

YuumiSoThicc1 votes

I dont, because if your near a friendly champ, she literally goes invulnerable and cannot be killed unless she hits you under tower.

Kai Guy2 votes

Situational mobility into un-targatabibility does not make for the most forgiving champion in the support role. I don't treat the ability like god mode, I treat it like my teammates HP bar gets added to mine, only as helpful as your Teammates current effective health.

A lot of enchanters are safer then an attached Yummi by virtue of controlling their own positioning and that their abilitys make a more dramatic impact consistently. Janna Nami Lulu all bring far more disengage then Yuumi and do not need to sacrifice good positioning to compensate a badly placed ADC in lane. Your pretty limited in options unattached, Throwing Q or R to try to help is about it... W into the enemy to help your ADC with E can be lethal as afterwards your left with needing to burn SS. Much less options then a lot of enchanters. Situations your caught out as support are usually Warding, ganks, and getting overzealous for poke/trades. All of which there are champions with kits far more forgiving if something goes south then Yuumi.

Just because its a low skill floor, easy to use, does not make it the most forgiving.

I mean, the main risk of some of the highly mobile supports comes from their engage patterns Rakan Pyke. But A Pyke or Rakkan Wiffing a Q are far safer then a Yuumi looking to cash in her passive.

So. I disagree with 1. The impact of W is not consistently reliable. Positioning only matters on Yuumi when her kit is weakest. Just because its simpler to hit W then learn how to position does not make it forgiving.

This is my viewpoint. Your welcome to have your own opinion. Feel I have expressed where I come from adequately in this post.

YuumiSoThicc1 votes

Get caught by a zed? W to a tank. Get caught by pyke? W to adc. Get caught by insert assassin here w to nearest tank if possible. She's the most forgiving support. No other support can go inulnerable and STAY invulnerable. Because of that she's super easy to play and to play with. Yuumi is a silly champ and if played right which most people don't and played correctly with, she's a terror on the rift

Kai Guy1 votes

I think a massive # of players do her wrong. You and I are in agreement that she has strong potential.

I still strongly disagree with how your representing her W as making her a forgiving champion. 700 range dash exclusively to allied champions? Any one whos played a decent # of games as champions like Katarina Rakan Braum Jax LeeSin Has experienced exactly what its like to die because idiot teammates wont provide you with the ability to target them at 700 ish range. The untargitability is meaningless if you cant get it off, or if you end up repositioning to a bad location because you only had that as your option. Her Q wont be adequate peel when some ones directly ontop of her and plenty of champions stand to get a high amount of damage.

In lane your ADC may or may not position well strongly impacting how helpful W is ever going to be. Attatched is not a solution to shit positioning, its not as reliable as ondemand mobility in any direction of your chosing, and it does not make for solid disengage. Shes only as safe as her teammates positioning /if she has R. She is at risk when trying to control vision, your at pretty high risk pretty frequently due to innate low stats.

People will downplay this, blame teammates rather then own up for their own Skill usage. The number of high risk or suboptimal W targets resulting into your death as the cat is always going to be on you.. You chose to W to some one or you positioned badly to a point you had to W to a bad target.

Constantly being attached is going to be weak.

In team fights, the ability is very solid. You can dash around and evade being at risk pretty well. In a massive # of realistic situations your not going to get any forgiveness from the game or enemy team. Certainly not from a teammate who makes a bad call and might randomly flash INTO them rather then Away like you might have hoped.

Zed goes in? Id rather be Nami Janna Soraka Rakan then Yuumi with no allies around, I think its even worse if you only have badly positioned allies then getting caught solo as worst case that results in 2 deaths Vs 1 death.

Yea its great to have a tank to hide behind... but not if that tank is at 100 or so health and pulls you deeper into their team. if your under pressure then Your screwed if you do or do not cast W. You also have no insurance to even get a durable target to evade to.. or any target at all.

That's not forgiving. ITs easy to use. Its got a low floor. W point and click. R huge aoe. Q follows the mouse. E click once. All very easy... doing it correctly or with impact is not. I think doing it well is a challenge, just going by how awful most players are doing on her currently... despite her having a honestly solid kit.

I don't expect her to get cred on boards for being a cool or viable option. Players will do bad, build wrong, blame RIOT or blame teamamtes. They will not own their misplays or understand them.

I play a lot of mobas. I did dota in wc3 Rocked some IO. I play Nox in smite, Abby in HOTS, Pestilus in Battlerite. Attachment mechanics, even ones like Nox and Pestilus with their Untargettable effects do not compensate for bad positioning or decision making. You get punished not forgiven on pretty much every bad usage.

So again.. Its fine if we don't agree. You will be unlikely to convince me that this champions the most forgiving support in the game. I have never seen the mechanic/similar do this for any champion before and I don't see it showing up now.

Yet, if you want to make a claim that when mastered she might be the most forgiving support champion... Well that's a significantly different claim. I still don't agree but I can see why you would make it, assuming absolute top end usage of W, her best cases. Then hella strong.

But best case is not a realistic expectation for almost all the players in the game and I think it gets compounded to be even worse when it relys on some one giving you the opportunity rather then creating your own.

For me "forgiving" implies low skill floor + low ceiling And its off the entire kit not just a single mechanic in it. Hopefully I have done a better job this time of conveying my viewpoint. I don't mind if you decided we need to agree to disagree. item 3174 I also don't understand why folks skip this item in her builds so frequently.

Karn Bishop1 votes

:) totally agree! in fact the adc i was playing with loved the Yummi adc combo enough to add me as a friend and adding people to my friends list is something i stopped doing a season ago.

I don't doubt her playstyle is one many supports will not enjoy but i don't see why that needs to be the case, shes great for a different kind of support player.

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