Skill usage Edit

• Master Yi's  Double Strike is similar to Caitlyn's  Headshot. It is very useful when farming minions. Gathering stacks on it by attacking minions, then attacking the enemy on the seventh strike is an effective harassment method.
• Using  Alpha Strike with  Double Strike ready and activating  Wuju Style as soon as Master Yi reappears can be an excellent harassment technique as it often takes most of the opponent's health in early game.
•  Alpha Strike's multiple-target component has a deceptively long range. You can target minions near an enemy champion to harass them.
• If  Alpha Strike is used on a unit that dies before the ability finishes,  Master Yi will end up where  Alpha Strike was first cast as opposed to near the first unit cast on.
•  Alpha Strike's can also be used to escape chasing enemies, by placing a ward on the Neutral monster.
•  Alpha Strike can also be used defensively. Since it includes a dash function, you can dodge skillshots. Also, Master Yi is untargetable during the teleport, so  Alpha Strike can be used to dodge AoE nukes such as Nunu's  Absolute Zero if timed properly.
• If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up  Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than the opponents.
• Use  Meditate if you are being focused on, as the bonus armor and magic resistance greatly reduces your damage taken.
  •  Meditate is especially useful when an opponent is trying to turret dive against Master Yi. He can stand next to the turret and use  Meditate to hold off damage from the opponent while they are repeatedly being hit by the turret.
• When you are being chased, hiding in a brush and channeling  Meditate can give you the upper hand against the enemies. However, do not do this if they can still defeat you after the  Meditate.
• Be aware that Blinds can effectively cut almost all of Master Yi's damage if not using an ability power build.
• When playing ability power Master Yi, remember that  Highlander refreshes all your cooldowns on a kill. Try to cast  Alpha Strike so it will result in a kill. This may seem like kill stealing but it will greatly increase the damage the other team will take.
•  Highlander can be used as an effective escape tool, especially with Ghost used at the same time. it is also incredibly great at chasing enemies because you cannot be slowed and gain a movement speed boost.
• Triggering  Wuju Style and  Highlander when combined with various melee increases makes Master Yi a high damage dealer, if for short periods. It's especially effective in destroying towers.
•  Wuju Style combined with  Alpha Strike are very strong for last hitting minions.
• Master Yi is one of the best backdoorers.  Activating  Highlander and  Wuju Style then attacking a turret can take it down very fast.
• Once Master Yi gets enough major items, he is able to rush into the enemy team, swiftly assassinate key targets like the carry or mages, and then  Meditate or escape. Watch for cooldowns on disables while doing this.

Build usage Edit

• Master Yi can build several ways. With the proper items and runes, he can be built as a burst mage, or he can build Atma's Impaler and Warmog's Armor to be a tanky DPS.
• Doran's Shield, as with most champions, helps in laning because of the armor, health, and health regeneration.
• Because Master Yi is very fragile, critical strike and items can help him deal a lot of burst damage in and life steal helps him stay alive as long as he's doing damage.
  • Infinity Edge and Phantom Dancer are great critical strike items. Phantom Dancer is more effective for Master Yi early, it should be obtained before Infinity Edge.
• Attack speed items like Phantom Dancer, Berserker's Greaves, and Zeke's Herald can greatly increase his DPS with  Double Strike. It is important to keep in mind  Highlander's attack speed bonus; it's not hard to accidentally cap out his attack speed.
• Combining attack damage and attack speed items are effective in increasing Master Yi's DPS.
  • The Black Cleaver is a great item for Master Yi. With the attack speed boost of  Highlander, he can easily achieve the maximum four armor reduction stacks and make quick work of any squishy target.
• Cooldown reduction items are great to increase his overall use of abilities, which in general have fairly long cooldowns.
  • Using  Highlander and the active effect of Youmuu's Ghostblade at the same time is very effective in many situations since both of these have great attack speed and movement speed bonus. Rushing Youmuu's Ghostblade at level 1 by starting with a Long Sword and leveling  Wuju Style allows for effective last hitting and a high damage output. That gives you 15 bonus damage, or with  Wuju Style, 30 bonus damage early game.
• Generally, items that provide bonuses on attacking or subsequent attacking are more useful on Master Yi than on other heroes due to  Double Strike and his high attack speed.
• Since Master Yi is an effective DPS/Pusher, it is useful to build him with damage and attack speed runes. Life steal can also be useful with increased damage and attack speed.
• Master Yi is extremely vulnerable to crowd control abilities, especially blind and snare, so players are recommended Cleanse as a summoner spell to counteract these effects.
  • Quicksilver Sash can provide good results in surviving; the active "Cleanse" effect is very useful for countering crowd control. The magic resistance also helps against return damage from Thornmail, a primary counter to Master Yi.
  • Banshee's Veil similarly helps to fizzle initiation abilities (which are often crowd control).
• A full ability power-based Master Yi can work well.  Alpha Strike becomes a fairly strong AoE nuke, and is refreshed instantly if a kill is scored while  Highlander is active.  Meditate also heals far more, often making Master Yi unkillable while meditating, and allows him to tank turrets for his team (of course, any hard crowd control effect will break it).
• A hybrid ability power-based Master Yi can yield good results with items such as Lich Bane or Trinity Force, especially if your enemies have high armor.
  • The unique combination of stats from Nashor's Tooth can make it very useful for Master Yi. The cooldown reduction specifically target his biggest weaknesses and ability power and attack speed target his biggest strengths.
• Sword of the Occult works exceptionally well with Master Yi, as after level 6, and even before he is able to rip through most casters with ease, creating a powerful snowball effect.
• Items such as Frozen Mallet or Trinity Force work well on Master Yi as he lacks any form of crowd control.
  • Red buff is crucial for Master Yi before such items are acquired.

Jungling Edit

Items	Runes	Spells
Hunter's Machete Health Potion x5	Greater Mark of Attack Speed Greater Seal of Armor Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist Greater Quintessence of Armor Penetration	Smite Flash

Masteries

Skill Order	Route Order	Notes
Alpha Strike  Meditate  Wuju Style  Alpha Strike  Meditate  Highlander	Wolves Blue golem Wraiths Wolves Small Golems Recall Red Lizard

Recommended builds Edit

Summoner's Rift recommended items
Starting		5
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

The Howling Abyss recommended items
Starting		2
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

The Crystal Scar recommended items
Starting			2
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

The Twisted Treeline recommended items
Starting
Essential
Offensive
Defensive
Consumables

Countering Edit

• Master Yi's strength is his biggest weakness. His main damage output is his auto-attacks. Therefore, buying a Thornmail or Frozen Heart will help you defend yourself.
• When Yi uses  Meditate, it is better to use a form of crowd control (especially silence or knockup, as these interrupt him) than attempting to deal damage.
• Using Exhaust on Master Yi can cripple his damage output, even during  Highlander.
• Slow is ineffective when Master Yi uses  Highlander.
• Master Yi excels at backdooring. Keep this in mind and be particularly aware of your mini-map.
• You can use Ignite on Master Yi during  Meditate to reduce his healing by half but it will not stop him from channeling the spell.
• When Master Yi is laning AP mid, he relies on  Meditate, thus making champions that can apply Grievous Wounds / healing reduction strong counterpicks (such as Fizz).
  • This also makes building Morellonomicon viable for countering, giving both AP and the passive effect of Grievous Wounds.
• Remember that Master Yi's  Wuju Style only gives him the bonus when the spell is not on cooldown, making Master Yi weaker when  Wuju Style is on cooldown.