Master Yi Rework Petition

Major Disaster··6 votes·543 views
Riot Games: Rework Master Yi

While we all know Riot does their best to keep champions balanced, sometimes the changes made to them just aren't enough. Changes performed with the best of intentions leave a champion in an unbalanced state, which is where Master Yi is now. He has no real counterplay, with only one skill even targeted, not even a skillshot. He can go invulnerable/untargetable while dealing moderate to extremely high damage with a single skill. He can self-heal while gaining a large damage reduction. He has scaling true damage and passively increased AD. He has skill resets, an ult that leaves him immune to slows while making it difficult for anything but point-and-click stuns/roots to stop him (while giving him a massive attack speed and movement buff)... his kit seems rather overloaded.

Some claim that at higher levels of skills this is less of a problem, but with studies showing that over 50% of League players playing at Bronze, Silver or low-end Gold, that means that for the majority of League gamers, that argument is invalid. Furthermore, Yi's one big weakness, roots/stuns, is the same weakness any champion faces. Even silences aren't very effective as half his skills or more are popped before he gets within range of a silence, and at that point it's too late. Even other assassins have more counterplay than he does. Katarina can be silenced mid-Ult, Akali/Rengar/Kha'zix/Shaco/Talon can be pink warded to reveal them and render them able to be attacked, LeBlank's teleports can be semi predicted if you've got fast reactions, etc. And with nearly all the other assassins, skillshots can be dodged to drastically reduce their damage.

TLDR; Yi's unbalanced with an overloaded kit. He needs some real tweaking to give counterplay. Sign the petition if you agree, and maybe Riot will hear our voices.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. :)

https://www.change.org/p/riot-games-rework-master-yi?just_created=true

12 Comments

sp4415 votes

Overloaded

Another word for the evergrowing pile of words without meaning.

insaiyanbacca3 votes

so you want what would this be? 4th rework on yi right?

Rabid Husky1 votes

where do i sign?

paperbIade1 votes

Downvoted

paperbIade

No just cc him

Major Disaster1 votes

Often easily dodged with an alpha strike. And his ult makes hitting skillshot CCs difficult due to speed boost. Not a great "weakness".

EffectFX2 votes

So chain CC?

Major Disaster1 votes

So build your team around making sure you have the specific types of CC for Yi, ignoring what's good for countering the other champs on the enemy team, orrr watch him wreck? Yeah, seems balanced to me.

DeynaTaggerung1 votes

I hate this argument because you could say that about any champ. Hard cc is a counter to every champ and is therefore not worth mentioning as a specific counter. I feel that's like saying magic damage is a counter to _______.

Major Disaster1 votes

Exactly!

RISE Shlack1232 votes

The problem with the "just CC Yi" line is now with Sated Devourer, Blade of the Ruined King and Berserker Greaves, Yi can build a Banshee's Veil and still put out a ton of damage due to all the AS and on-hit damage from those items alone. So he can absorb your first real hard CC ability and can become immune to slows during his ult.

Not a good way to deal with a champ who can burst you down just as fast with less items. Sated Devourer is broken - it's that simple. It's the Feral Flare all over again.

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