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its easy to play and preety cheep
Should Yi be built any other way? The thing about this build is that it can get started with one item. Ghostblade. Its easy to build with all the small parts it has. And once you get The Brutalizer you have an edge. and you can get that by LvL3 if you get FB and maybe a few more kills.
This build gets over looked for the fact there is no PD, IE, Bloodthirster, etc. Its TT not SR lol.
The reason for Starks, is I also play support champs, and Starks lets me be support lol. I dont always get games where someone else will get Starls, so I take it on my self to help the teams. And you said your self, Personal Preference :D
The Crit dmg is set for late game when I will be critting. I dont run PD, so Crit Dmg isnt the best thing, but when I crit, I crit hard. So it all works out ;)
Before you think Im not listening to what you are saying, I assure you that I am, and again, Personal Preference. Ty for the comments, and I will probably throw in some crit dmg.
Just a personal preference but Starks should be on someone else; Bloodthirster can replace and improve that item slot so much. Yi sometimes gets focused down really fast due to being DPS so your Starks may be less usable than you'd think.
As for runes, I'd prefer you put some Crit Chance runes in there; you don't have to remove all of the Crit Damage runes, but at least have some Crit Chance runes since you're not running Phantom Dancer on this build.
I will have to test this build out sometime. My biggest fear right now, is that I am terrible with item clicks! Other than that it definitely seems interesting.
I do believe that there are keybindings for the items slots. Not to mention you can make macros for it.
This build was build to get Ghostblade at LvL6ish, so He can stack it with Highlander. Since this is an ArP build, Yi will be doing insane dmg early game because of the 3/5 Wuju Style. You will also have 29 ArP. Thats about half of most champs armor. You choose Cho'Gath so Ill use him.
Here is the top rated Cho'Gath Build. He doesnt have 4k HP, but thats without his Feast stacks. Anyway, you see he has 209 armor. Nice lil bit there I think, now lets add my Yi. Full builds in this scenerio. I have 49ArP. So that 209 becomes 163. Thats a nasty drop in armor, yes? Now lets add Black Cleaver. It will take off another 60armor. That give Cho'Gath only 103 left. He may have 3.5k HP, but that wont last long with his armor going fading into nothing. Now add the -20 from Stark's, you get 83. He has lost most of his armor, and life by now, but lets make it worse. Sod I dont use for its 100dmg per 4th hit, I use if for the AS and its active. I like having 30 more ArP when I need it. So add that to the ArP count, and Cho'Gath has only 53 armor.
Now lets add some AS into this. Ok Yi starts with about 1.5-1.7ish AS without items. Lets go with 1.6 cause its in the middle. Now Im bad at percentages, but if you add the 25% from Greaves, 20% from Stark's, 55% from SoD, 80% from Highlander, and 50% from Ghostblade. Lets add those percents together for a grand total of 230% AS. Now if I do this right, 1.6 base ASx2.3(230% boost)= 5.888. Im sure that we cant go into 5 attacks per second, so it will cap him off at 2.5. Now with that 2.5 ApS, Black Cleaver will have full stacks in 2sec. Also, Yi's passive Double Strike will come faster. How many times? Well if in 3secs, there are 7 attacks, add nother 3secs, you get 14. Thats two Double Strike. And those DS will be on someone with 53 armor. Thats will all of my ArP. Now since I i dont have another 3sec, I wont get another DS, but Ill have a total of 20 attacks at max AS. Thats impressive I think.
Since I will have 6sec of 2.5AS on someone with 53 armor. Im doing decent dmg in that time, plus there is my team.
Yes I could use Madred's and if there was a feed tank, I would. But usually this build will let you take the outside turret at LvL6, and if you go uncontested, you can get the inside turret one min later. Take the Inhib, and its going to be GG
Try make your description less. People dont have time to read trash. Your yi build is fail. Only use Sword of Divine against Jax. You should write down other items for other opponents. Such as use a Last Whisperer against tanks or use a malady if theres no tanks or a jax because it gives good attack speed and life steal. Black Cleaver is a bad idea for yi he should be getting Lifesteal so you should get Bloodthirster. Executioners calling or Youmuu's Ghostblade should be changed to Phantom Dancer.
EDIT: You sir are blind to the way things work. I use Sword of Divine for its active. +30ArP is better for tank killing. Last Whisper is a great item, but I dont use it. I could, but I dont. My build isnt about AS. Its about ArP. If I want AS Ill activate Ghostblade and Highlander. I dont need Malady. Ive got Stark's which is superior to Malady. It gives me more LS than Malady, and I have Executioner's Call for even more. Plus I get crit with EC. The DoT passive is great too. Its active is great for those champs that heal, or have a healer.
Everything in my build has a place and works with everything. I dont need to Dodge. I dont need to spend a lot of gold to make the build effective. AND my build gets powerful early game, and reaches full power about mid. I dont need PD, IE, or Bloodthirster.