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AP Master Yi: Worth it?

Creator: RainDance May 3, 2011 3:34pm
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Straight AP Yi is just not an acceptable way to play and doesn't take advantage of him fully. Expensive hybrid items to raise attack and AP might give you a more APish Yi but attack speed is his bread and butter as well as getting his DPS up.

Yi's role has always been to take down towers and alpha to squishies taking them out quickly.

AP Yi's role is what? Harassment and running away praying they don't have CC?

Out of all those champions why play a champion wrong?

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AP Yi isn't completely un-viable. He's tanky as hell late game with some CDR in combo with his Meditate. 1v3+turret he can survive for a while. But Hybrid AP+AS works best. And there are some nice items that give both. Nashor's Tooth jumps straight to mind.


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It is completely unviable. Which probably isn't even a word :3
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Just saying, I've done it with on-off success. And, "unviable" is a word.
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Haha, it is XD
It just sounds so wrong :3

Still, you're probably at a stage where you can play what ever the f' you want and still win.

AP Yi is bad and only noobs and trolls play him. /thread.
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AP Yi - fun
Hybrid Yi - WTF?
AD Yi - Way to go.

Simple as that.

There are better champions for going AP. You like AP Yi? Take a freaking sion.... and go AP sion.
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AP Yi sure deals tons of magic damage, but its kinda useless. U'll depend a lot on Alpha Strike and Meditate, and thats suicidal if u cant use them like normal attacks. U'd have to "Q" and run, "Q" and run, and thats not how Yi should be played.

If u want to build AP, play as a mage.
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AP Yi doesnt do tons of damage.
He does 1 spell with 100% AP ratio. Nothing more...
Even sion is better... 100% AP ratio x2

Srsly if you want to play AP Yi, take Sion instead, you will bring burst damage, offtakiness, and most of all CC!
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That's why you get a lichbane and a guinsoo's. You proc your lichbane with your spells (which gets your AS/AP up) and then DPS them down with your AS. You also need a lot of CDR and a little magic pen for the damage boost. AP Yi is more difficult, but imo it's all about play style. I suck at Master Right-click (crit/AS Yi), but I'm really good at "Alpha strike to the Face!" (AS/AP Yi).
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AP Yi is still worse than all the other casters in the game... Items won't fix that..

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