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Well tbh Yi is that one carry that pwns from the begining till end in my eyes, unless you feed your opponents.
Early game, Wuju style is OP coz it gives you a free Infinity Edge, You have a "charge" ability on Alpha strike so no problem in initiating, you have MS coz of highlander, you have AS on highlander. You have double stike that takes 1/2 of enemy hp in mid game.
Pwns early game with insane AD and charge ability.
Pwns mid game coz of movement speed and attackspeed paried with still nice AD and AS.
Pwns endgame sicne you will be fed already...
I would say it
- Patience, you dont want those CCes on you.
- Play smart, and judge well!
- Do not become greedy!
- Live to fight another day!
- Patiance, you will pwn lategame!
If comments really matters then this is a 10/10 build, **** the ratings then because this build works perfectly. Haters gotta hate, when that is turned against you for no ****ing reason I think DEWO was right.
All I can say that it's too late... even if my build was better, doesn't matter.
Bought a Long Sword and a health potion and took a point into Alpha Strike and focused on Wuju Style. He harassed a bit but when I level up and had 7th strike ready for passive, actived Wuju Style, Alpha Striked him and 60% of his HP gone like that, he was like WTF in the ventrilo ^^,
After that he thought he could kite me, but yet again I did the same... He tried to flash but he was already dead when he reached the other side.
35ArP is no joke in the beginning and vs. Champs who doesn't focus on Armor and such. He quit the game at the spot and called me OP, I mean earlier today he called him weak and useless in teamfights. He has a poor sence of logic when it comes to "How Master Yi works", you're not suppose to take any CC and if you do you always got Cleanse.
@ your killing towers and backdooring, yes you can annihilate towers inhibitors and such, only if your team is able to keep your enemies busy, this is probably what he ment.
Its just lame that you can only go mid when you play with your friends... ppl are sooooo used to ranged chars on mid so they think you will suck there.
I use alpha strike to get to the enemy and hit once twice with Wuju active ;p you are facing quite squishy targets in early game in mid so ganking som1 is not an issue. And they RARELY take boots 1st on solo-mid witch gives you great advatage.
Yeah I like soloing with yi, but usually my team won't let me unless i'm with friends. Pugs assume that anyone soloing with a melee will do horrible if it isn't Mordekaiser or Cho'Gath. Anyway, when soloing I think it's good to get meki pendant first because then you can spam your alpha strike. Tis way you can farm minions and keep the enemy form pushing and harassing you, while also harassing them.
Yoyo blade is not that good for Yi as you think.
2687g cost.
only 30 damage
only 15% crit
20Arp is nice but not for that cost
15% CDR - this is totaly useless on Yi. Yi doesnt need absolutly any CDR. His cooldowns reset or are lowered (on ***it by 50%) that makes you able to spam those abilities, and your main damage comes from "wite" swipes anyway.
Now the active:
You gain +20% movespeed and +50% attack speed for 8 seconds (if attacking all the time) basicly a copy of your highlander skill. The movement speed is not nessesary since you reach the soft cap (even with +2 boots) if you have the Phantom dancer, anyway. So additional 20% gives you pretty much nothing. The AS from it is nice early game but when you get your Malady+Phantom and you pop your Highlander you reach the AS cap anyway. No need of that additional 50%.
It can be used instead of Phantom but i think phantom is WAY better than Yoyo.
It costs 700g more but it comes in little parts and its easy to get.
I find an exhaust a perfect thing for early game feed, and also a great tool to beat even 2 carry vs you fight. Blind one and kill other one, than finish off the blinded one. Its mainly used as defensive skill in my games as Yi. noone should escape you with highlander.
Tbh i wouldnt skip malady on him at any time. Its a great item early game for him that makes jungling EZ, you can even replenish full HP without even Meditate in fiew secs.
And going Mala+Phantom+Yoyo is overkill, wasted gold.
@Alahric
Clense is a great thing for Yi since you are very squishy target if cced. Again i like flash better but its personal preferences and anticipation. You tend to play tank and not worry too much i like playing squishes :).
Also remember Ala when swapping malady for yoyo, that you loose the malady passive. that is 200 dps on 2.0 AS.
@ Goolash again
Yi is best at solomid tbh. Getting lvl 6 asap and ganking everything that moves with Highlander always active is best thing you could do.
Laning with soraka = EZ mode :P healing here healing there. I find laning with Taric better since he has stun :P
@ Ala again
Nothing you can do... got a loosing game lately with WW with stats 18/2 ... ppl fed ryze so much that he was 1 shoting whole team...
"Yi is ****ing useless if his team can't back him up." you have to add in early/mid game. In late game if you got a bitty bitty fed... you are able to gank solo 3-4-5 champs no prob.
on that Ashe stuff...
"it deals damage and stuns the Champion for up to 3.5 seconds, based on how far the arrow has traveled"
BIG BULL-****ING-****... i did a stopclock test yesterday. Got stunned for 5.6 sec... 2 times... a nearly 6 sec stun ffs...? i know its getting fixed in next patch but still a ****ty NO SKILL CHAR, rrrrrrriiiightclick... (yeye i hate Ashe)
Nothing you can do about it Ala... noone will survive a 6 sec stuns...
Yi is all about got fed? you kill, got ganked? just feed more. Unfortunatly he has no comming back, and if you didnt get fed all you can do is push lanes, i suggest getting Tiamat ASAP if your stats go bad. go farm and push lanes, till you get all items. And try again, use ulti just to escape ganks while pushing lanes and towers.
Hope this wall of text will be at any worth...
Y'know the 7th Passive + Wuju Style + Alpha Strike -> Exhaust is really good when going for the kill. Maybe I should add that to the guide, lol.