A Plea For Yi: The Original Dunkmaster

LordHippoman·10/10/2014, 8:25:45 AM·12 votes·1,703 views

Throughout League Of Legends history, no video has been as influential to the culture of the game as this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fIOrUTIOQ

Pro As Heck guide to Master Yi has granted us a thousand jokes. Swordboots, the Rude Dudes, Red Soda. Few builds have been as gloriously upheld as the Pro Yi Guide. Everyone has seen Yi holding 5 Double Swords, drinking his Red Sodas...but not anymore.

The jungle is changing. The golems (stoner brothers), wraiths (rude dudes), and dog (wolves) are gone. Yi can no longer clear with just Revive and Smite. The map has been overhauled and looks a lot better. But few things are as iconic to League as "get dunked", and the Dunkmaster himself, Master Yi.

So you can understand how happy I was to hear we'd be getting a Dunkmaster skin. Finally, some respect for...Darius

When this guide was first created, Darius was a king of Persia, not a top lane bruiser who spins around and isn't named Garen. Folks, this Noxian is a Usurper Dunkmaster. The original Dunkmaster is a man named Master Yi, who I'm sure you all saw last around level 15 or so. It is his Wuju Style that makes Moving Really Fast look good. And with the newest PBE jungle changes, we are losing not only the Xman Claws, but the BEST ITEM IN THE GAME. Wiggles. Please, fans, Riot staff, hear me out. Soon the Pro As Heck Guide to Master Yi will be completely unusable. With no Xman Claws, no Wiggles, and not a single Rude Dude to dunk, the original Dunkmaster has been forgotten. That is why I am proposing a skin, a new voice clip, anything. Just something to preserve the legacy of Dunkmaster Yi himself. So in Season 10 when all the jungle monsters are robots and Urf finally comes out, we can look at it and say: "That was a simpler time. Nooblord."

Never forget, my friends. We're in the Yi Zone. Come on and slam.

9 Comments

MarkedOfKane10/10/2014, 9:37:43 PM5 votes

Yeah, I hate it when im playing yi and I say something along the lines of "Get dunked" and the enemy team says "Yi just warps" or "Yi doesn't dunk".

The concept of "dunking" is to absolutely destroy someone.

MasterYi PRAISE THE TRUE DUNK MASTERMasterYi

Cavemantero10/10/2014, 7:55:28 PM4 votes

Yi's really a pointguard tho.

NeroUS10/18/2014, 11:42:00 PM2 votes

When I saw the dunkmaster darius skin, I wondered what riot was thinking. Darius has never been the dunkmaster...

I might just play a dunkmaster yi game tonight.

The Nice Boat10/14/2014, 2:58:46 PM2 votes

Truly it was a better time

JPlayah12/11/2014, 11:19:20 AM1 votes

I would love to have a Dunkmaster Yi skin. Yi is the original dunker.

Reaper Review12/11/2014, 4:28:34 PM1 votes

Darius's personality is better suited for the skin's attitude, though. I just can't imagine Yi's voice with these kinds of lines. Plus, considering everything you'd have to change to make an adequate Dunkmaster Yi skin, it would be approaching ultimate skin status. And the last thing we need is an ultimate skin for Yi, if the general playerbase behind Pulsefire Ezreal is any indication.

Also, I have to wonder how popular that video would've been if it hadn't used the monotone voice.

ThunderCraft12/27/2019, 6:20:25 AM1 votes

your skills are inferior