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Revert Highlander nerf or increase the speed boost

Vendemiaire·8/22/2016, 3:07:14 AM·3 votes·957 views

We all know that due to itemization and built-in speed boost, a lot of champions nowadays can easily outrun Master Yi who is known for his speed. Yi's ult is meant to make him unkiteable, but with speed boost from even an immobile champion like can probably waste out 80% of Yi's ult duration, don't even mention who is almost** constantly faster than an ulting Yi**. From what I understand, the reason highlander received a duration nerf is because Riot wanted to make him more team fight oriented by decreasing his solo potential. While I am totally ok with that, this nerf leaves his early gank, roam and chase in a pretty awkward position. With this speed boost which is designed for the S3 league, a lot of champions nowadays can easily make his ult totally useless. A suggestion to fix this problem is to simply increase his movement speed boost but leave the attack speed and ult duration untouched, this should make him once again not that easy to kite (which is very ironic and I believe is not the intention of this champion's design), while keeping his actual dueling ability at a decent level.

8 Comments

dangopee8/22/2016, 3:21:11 AM2 votes

He basically got Sejuani'd (nerfed her when really Cinderhulk was the problem and then nerfed the item and left her shit tier)

They nerfed the champion when the item (Sated Devourer) was the real problem.

His main problem right now is that his ult doesn't last long enough for him to catch up to and take down a tanky champion. He used to be able to DPS duel most champions as long as he didn't get hard CCed. Now He can't kill a tank before his ult wears off unless he is full damage (not really viable above silver elo). If he can't kill for example a Malphite before his ult wears off, their frozen heart + randuins is just going to kick in and his attack speed will slow to nothing just like every other melee and he will likely just straight up lose the duel.

They should honestly just revert him to the state he was in at the time of Sated Devourer's release.

If they want to have his ult duration be short like it is now, his E needs to do % max HP true damage or something so he isn't so easily countered by tanks.

MunchCrunchLunch8/22/2016, 5:00:21 AM2 votes

thats why when you play yi now you take ghost and blade and the ruined king. with the active ghost and ult and dead mans plate you're looing at a 720 movement speed ulting yi coming at your face

iLymerick8/22/2016, 5:13:48 AM1 votes

Those players who want Yi to be faster and unkiteable are going to have to sacrifice his damage output. League is not a Burger King.

DwainTheRock8/22/2016, 6:26:07 AM1 votes

I play a good share of Yi and I really don't think he needs an actual buff. JUST MAKE ALPHA STRIKE NOT BUGGY IS ALL I ASK! ;~; But yeah, maybe some quality of life stuff but he really doesn't need more damage.