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(WIP) AD Yi: An Alpha (strike) Guide

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Choose Champion Build:

Neo
Critical Psychopath

Spells:

Ghost

Flash

Items

Start 1

Start 2

First buy

Sceptering up

Out for blood

Phantom Fast

Time to make a splash

Statikk zap!

Infinite power!

Full build

Ability Order

Master Yi Passive Ability

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0.0 Introduction / Notes

Please don't down-vote because its not done, I did say WIP!

Sorry for not updating this guide in forever, I'm currently working on an update, so stay tuned.

This guide was created after the 3.10 rework, so no worries, all up to date.

All the item purchases for my builds are in order of buying priority.

Each build will have its own mini-guide here, check the table of contents for help locating the one you want.

Unless said otherwise, all builds are geared for any lane, however, I usually play top, and sometimes bottom, but I have played middle with good results.

All feedback is welcome!

0.1 Intro to Yi

is a melee assassin and duelist, specializing in crazy fast hitting and chasing his enemies to the ground. has immense sustain from his W, , and is very good at chasing his opponents because of his Q, , and his ultimate, , which also gives a big boost to his attack speed at the same time as movement speed. is also graced with being good at taking down heavily armored targets, because his E, , deals true damage when activated, and true damage bypasses armor and magic resist, making tanks cry!

Skills

's passive. Every 4th basic attack, within 4 seconds of the last, hits twice, doing 50% damage, applying on-hit effects, and calculating crit separately from the first hit

's Q. becomes un-targetable and quickly jumps between up to 4 targets, prioritizing the closest to the unit he activated on. then reappears at the unit that was activated on, or, if the unit was killed by something else, he reappears at his original position. Deals 25/60/95/130/165 (+100% AD) physical damage. Also does 75/100/125/150/175 bonus damage to monsters and minions. 's cooldown is reduced by 1 for every basic attack.

's W. channels for 4 seconds or until he gets a command, restoring 30/50/90/110 (+30% AP) health per second. The amount healed is increased by 1% for every 1% of health missing. also gets a 40/45/50/55/60% damage reduction during the channel, the reduction is halved against turrets.

's E. Passively grants a 7/9/11/13/15% AD bonus which is disabled when the active part of is on cooldown. Can be activated so that every basic attack deals 10/25/20/25/30 (+10/12.5/15/17.5/20% AD) bonus true damage.

's ultimate. Passivly causes champion kills to reduce the cooldowns of 's other abilities by 18 seconds, champion assists reduce them by 9 seconds. Can be activated to increase 's movement speed by 25/35/45% and his attack speed by 30/55/80% for 10 seconds. While is active, champion kills and assists increase its duration by 4 seconds.

1.0 Neo build intro

The build I have dubbed "Neo" is the one that I usually play. Fully fledged, it has incredible burst and sustain potential, but the hardest part is getting good enough to double gank when they are both higher level then you (did happen, but was kind of a fluke :D).

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Pros:
+Ridiculously high AD
+Amazing burst
+Crazy sustain with lifesteal
+Good critical chance
+Good CC with statikk shiv
+Very fast

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Cons:
-Super squishy
-Can easily be tag-teamed
-Doesn't like hard CC
-Gets mana screwed

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2.0 Critical Psychopath build intro

The build I call "Critical Psychopath" is one I've started to play more and more lately. Critical Psychopath focuses on having extreme critical chance and extra critical damage, enabling to kill most champions in 5 seconds or less.

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Pros:
+Crits allow it to kill anyone
+Amazing burst (crits!)
+Amazing attack speed
+300% crit damage (with runes)
+Good CC with statikk shiv
+Very fast

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Cons:
-Really low sustain
-Super squishy
-Can be killed by 3 enemies
-Doesn't like hard CC
-Gets mana screwed

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#.# Update History

August 6th 2013 - Released the first WIP version of the guide, only including the Neo and Critical Psychopath build cheat sheets.

August 8th 2013 - Released the first part of the general mini-guide, designed the give players a general feel for 's play style and abilities.

August 8th 2013 - Started on the Critical Psychopath guide by adding the Pros and Cons