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About the guide

Welcome to my humble Master Yi (AD) jungle guide. A few things about it:

This is a JUNGLE guide
You can try to lane with AD Yi, if you want to get bored and beaten. He only works against a few toplane champions, so not recommended for blind picks.
It can work in ranked, but you have to pick AFTER the enemy has chosen a toplaner.
AP Yi is suited for laning

This quick guide will explain:

What can Yi do? What cant he?
Reasoning behind the masteries
Reasoning behind the runes
How to clear camps
How to gank
Item sequence
How to teamfight
How to push and backdoor

What can Yi do? What cant he?

What can Yi do?

clear jungle extremely fast
counterjungle
punish overextended players
punish Rambo-ing
destroy structures quickly
backdoor
splitpush
pentakill frequently
escape epicly

What can Yi not do?

fight against crow control (CC)
teamfight well
defend turrets
initiate
support
fail

Reasoning behind the masteries

an AD-Yi's damage almost exclusively comes from autoattacks
this damage must be amplified, so that the target dies before you do
hence take all physical damage increasing masteries available
spend 8 from the reamining 9 in defensive masteries for early survival and the jungle
take a point in flash/teleport for increasing their utility

Reasoning behind the runes

Greater Mark of Attack Speed+ Greater Quintessence of Attack Speed:
Yi passively gains attack damage from Wuju Style, and has no ability-AD scaling. Therefore the best way to increase the autoattack damage is attack speed here. Once Wriggle's Lantern is completed, jungling becomes a breeze.
Greater Seal of Armor: it's just essential for your first round if the jungle.
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: the glyph slot doesn't do a lot for Yi early, but as you won't itemize magic resist until late on, these come quite handy.

How to clear camps

Step 1: buy your Hunter's Machete + 5x Health Potions and get going
Step 2: decide with your team if you invade
Step 3: determine where the enemy jungler starts, what route he will take and how fast he will reach his camps
Step 4: take a small camp (wolves/wraiths) then a smiteless buff (blue/red) if your team helps
Step 5: head to your other buff and take it; you are level 3 now, mid is 2, top is still 1
Always, from now on gank overextending enemies.

Tips:
All monsters have to be visible for Alpha Strike to work on them.
Always start clearing with an autoattack, then right as it has landed an Alpha Strike (provided you will have enough mana for Highlander afterwards); this saves you some HP
Only use Wuju Style on the red lizard and the blue golem, stop using it on creeps after you finish Wriggle's Lantern

How to gank

Standard gank:

Normally you can only gank overextended enemies
Try to walk up to them, use Wuju Style and Highlander if available
Save Alpha Strike for as long as you can in case they blink or dash

Teleport gank:

Ask your teammates to ward the very top/bot brushes, this will protect them from enemy ganks
Keep track of events all over the map; you don't need to be looking at the monsters while clearing; press SPACE to get back
As small skirmishes evolve use your teleport on a ward, so you cut the enemy off / catch them
Same can be done virtually everywhere
You can ward enemy buffs and snatch them with a teleport as soon as they spawn

Items

Amazing starting item, synergy with the attack speed runes. No other item makes you clear faster. Builds into .

After getting this, jungling becomes a joke. Go grab a pink ward, use the passive, and kill dragon. Fast clearing = more time = more gold.

I have been testing the optimal 2nd item for a long time. I used to build , and many others. Truth is: these items waste a lot of stats. You already have a lot of extra attack speed, not even counting . All Yi wants is strong autoattacks, makes sure you land a lot of them. Also, from time to time you will get critical 's. Pretty epic early in the game.

Pretty obvious, extreme synergy with . You can move through units, push like a machine, run like a hero.

Very underuse item on Yi. Gives very much needed hp damage, and a guaranteed on hit slow. As a melee dps, Yi HAS to stick on the target

Invaluable item in key teamfights. Also makes your 2.5-2.8k hp worth more.

Replace your with this monster, once you can afford it. Amazing active and passive.

Situational items:

Replace if you don't value the passive. Use +'s passive=win.

Get this if their CC is stopping you from killing or they run a double AP combo. Replace or .

Get this instead of if they run a double AP combo.

How to teamfight

Don't initiate, ever
Don't die, you are worth more alive. If you live and ace, their base will get devastated.
Engage as late as possible, without leaving your team to lose
Focus their AD or AP depending who has smaller defense
Refresh your skills by getting a killing blow during Highlander
Repeat
Collect your pentakill
When you get dangerously low, either run away, or pop Meditate if you KNOW they can't interrupt it.

How to push and backdoor

Always have ward coverage (use your Wriggle's Lantern accordingly
Don't waste mana, you might have to use Highlander
Keep track of enemies (that can kill you)
If you are cut off, recall/teleport home fast or teleport to another lane to push it
If you need to run with Highlander, avoid hard CC
You should use Wuju Style and Highlander both on turrets, if you can escape without
TELL your team if you backdoor or split push, so they don't engage 4v5
The enemy will have to send at least 1 player to defend, you need to be able to duel with this champion
Leave hidden ward to teleport back to for some backdoor fun