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Yuumi Build Guide by Wicked Cherry

[WIP] Yuumi - Catching enemies like fish.

Updated on April 23, 2023

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Yuumi Build Guide By Wicked Cherry Updated on April 23, 2023

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Fruxo (326) | July 2, 2020 1:21am

Hello there Wicked Cherry, here is the review you requested.

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Build / Cheatsheet

I don’t like in the “Standard Runes” section, you have in your notes that we should refer to the other section. How come? Why not explain more about the rune page and what it is good for like you’ve done with the 2 previous ones (Aggressive Runes / Precision Runes). I also don’t really like it because it won’t help the readers. Usually notes are there for people that are looking to skim through and find quick information before a game for example and so not properly explaining the page will make the cheat sheet for that rune page kinda lose its purpose. Same thing I said could apply to the “Alternative Runes” too.
I think your notes for spells are a bit too much. While they do explain the reason for the spells pretty nicely, it would almost be the same as saying “You can stick onto an ally so you don’t really need Flash. Heal is good to save the ADC and the Ignite is good for being aggressive” if you get what I mean. I would recommend to cut out text that may not be necessary. For example, talking about how valuable a Barrier is for your ADC will not really help your case on why these specific summoners are good for Yuumi. Another one would be the sentence where you refer to go to another section for more info, not really needed in my opinion.
Your secondary spell notes ( Exhaust & Ignite are much better. Not overly too long so that it might become a burden to read if you want quick information. Even here I would recommend to remove the last sentence, not very useful and I would also recommend to put in a bit more info here. While you’ve done a good job already, I bet that you can probably fit in a tiny bit more about the spells (since you were able to fit in so much about the other ones I mean).
If Exhaust is not as powerful as it used to be in comparison to Ignite, why should I even pick these summoner spells? You later mention that these should be picked in very specific burst compositions and such. If this is the case then there’s no point of saying that it’s not as powerful. If the spell is useful for one case then it’s a good spell, if it isn’t then you shouldn’t mention it. I would recommend to remove that first sentence. Also about the last sentence again, (notice the pattern here with the copied and pasted sentences about looking at another section? When the most important information should be explained right here?)
I dislike that you have notes about how to import the build in your Starting Items part, not good. I would much rather have it talk about the reason for this choice of starting items, why is Spellthief's Edge the good item to pick on Yuumi? If people really wanted to import the build, they would scroll down to the correct chapter, assuming to be the Items chapter and do so. If not then the set can always be put into the discussion section and not the main guide. You do a much better job on your second one about First backs.
Pointless to include Frostfang if the item automatically gets upgraded for you anyways once you finish the specific quest. Even less when you already include the finished version of your support item. You also explain pretty well on why you should change your trinket to oracle because of how the new support items work, this means less use to have it there. :)
I heavily disagree with some of your item choices, meaningly Frozen Heart, Randuin's Omen, Liandry's Torment and Turbo Chemtank. Could argue that Knight's Vow may be there too but I guess it could work out. I’ll get more into these concerns when I get more into the Items section of the guide.
You’ve never mentioned any potential boots to buy on Yuumi so why would it be necessary to explain your reasoning for not buying boots when you don’t have an example of where you buy boots in the first place? Pretty confused here. If you don’t need boots then there’s no point in explaining it and if it’s personal preference, there should be other boots that you can opt towards in the cheat sheet for those instances.
I would also like to see your reasoning on picking Frozen Heart, Randuin's Omen and Turbo Chemtank. Frozen is almost never picked on her and the stats that it gives is still lackluster in comparison to other items that you can get, the item is barely built. As for Randuin's and Righteous, according to stat sites, these have never ever been built on Yuumi, why should I even pick these items? Personally I don’t see a valid use for these items on her, she’s not a Tank Support like Leona so she doesn’t need Tank Items.
According to stat sites, Q max first then E max has a much higher winrate and playrate compared to E max and then Q max. Wouldn’t it be the smartest to show the ability order with the highest winrate? You can always have your other ability order for E max as a secondary one, but I would recommend having the Q max version as the first thing you see. Especially even more when Q max has a 53% overall winrate and E max first is sitting at 39% which is lower than any other ability order she can go at the minute.

Presentation

When it comes to the visual presentation of this guide, I think that it looks really nice. The banners look good and you’ve used some neat codings to make the information look good while avoiding to have it be an all out mess, good job.
There are only 3 sections in this guide that I don’t like at all. These 3 sections are “About Yuumi”, “Threats” & the overall colors of the guide. Everything else looks great visually and I do like it.
When it comes to the “Threats”, I do not like the formatting here at all. Not only are some of the matchup spoilers inconsistent with the others (meaningly ones like Bard & Blitzcrank, Karma & Leona as well as Volibear & Xerath) but the images do not fit with this section. I would recommend fixing these spoilers to fit like all the others (having one matchup spoiler e.g. Morgana and then another one next to it e.g. Nami) and to remove the 2 Yuumi images altogether and repurpose them to another section of the guide where they can look better. In this section they just clutter it up and make more of a mess then they are trying to make it look nice. The images still look good and can definitely make the guide look awesome, but they just don’t fit for this section.
The overall colors of this guide is not to my liking, while I get that it’s there to make it look nice, it doesn’t really function as well as you might think. No offense but in my opinion, all these different colors like red, green, yellow, blue etc. for the text start to become an eyesore after a while. I can buy if you want to color for say a specific thing or if you want to color the BBCodes like Yuumi into Yuumi but if that’s the case, you have to stick with one color. Having more than one makes it look worse in my opinion and it kinda downgrades the guide’s readability. The only use of multi-colors of this guide that I can both buy and should stay is the last description in “Roaming & Recalling”, right next to the table of contents image, the ones where colors change as the text goes, but that’s it. This is not to be confused with bolded text such as these, underlined text like these or italic text like these ones and in my opinion, using these 3 things like e.g. bolded text is much better than 10 different colors for almost all the text.
The last thing is the “About Yuumi” section. I really hate Lore in guides but at least it's near the end instead of at the beginning like a lot of other authors. Lore in guides to me just serves as padding and doesn't help anyone who comes to your guide to learn how to play the champion. I'd rather see you include links to her lore pages instead of copying and pasting it. It just feels kinda scummy to copy and paste the entire lore of a champion since it adds so much to the guide's length, even if parts of it are in spoilers. Links seem like a way to accomplish the exact same thing without it feeling like padding.
I would also like to suggest you proofread your guide as there are a lot of grammar mistakes throughout each section (some I do point out but there are more). An example is where you have “cooldown” spelt correctly at some sentences but in others it’s put as “cool down” which indicates a completely different word.

Content

Pros / Cons

I think you should capitalize all your first letters. Example, “high utility” should be “High utility”. It’s very off and looks lazy when some are capitalized and some are not.
“due of heals & shields high sustain” sounds incredibly confusing and I think it would make more sense to make it “High sustain due to heals & shields” instead.
You should remove “possible” from “quite adaptive playstyle possible” as it’s just unnecessary to have there.
“especially aggressive playstyle can be quite mana-consuming” is such a long sentence just to say that playing aggressive takes a lot of mana. Same goes for “Recall timer can be shorter for you by attaching to a recalling ally”. Just say “Shorter recall timer if attaching to a recalling ally”.
Due to how her attaching works (having a cooldown in which you are forced to wait before attaching) makes the con “squishy (attaching needs quick reactions)” not really make much sense. If she’s squishy, just say she’s squishy. She doesn’t become squishy because her attaching needs quick reactions given how you have to wait before attaching regardless if you have a quick reaction or an incredibly slow one.

Unique Abilities

Don’t really get that much why the banner says “Unique Abilities” as I think just saying “Abilities” would work equally as much. Every champion has their own unique abilities, no?
Passive: Again I think capitalizing your first letters for every quick notes would make it look more professional. For example: “provides a shield that can be transferred to allies, therefore extra "health"/sustain” can easily become “Provides a shield that can be transferred to allies, therefore extra "health"/sustain” and look much better. I also think “Provides a shield that can be transferred to allies giving extra health & sustain” is a much better sentence.
Passive: “can be re-activated by simply auto-attacks (but beware of your medium range, there's champions who have a larger range than you)” should technically be “Can be re-activated by auto-attacks (be aware of your range, there are champions who have a larger range than you)” and it’ll look less like a mess.
Q: “slow applies and typically either enables your team a take down in team fights or forces the enemy to use a gap closer or Flash” is again such a long sentence just to say that the slow can enable your teammates a kill or summoner spell/gap closer.
Q: “while attached, you can chase the enemy with it due to its flexible flight direction” makes no sense, how does it become flexible? You’re only able to rotate the ability if you’re attached to an ally in which case it won’t sound as confusing if you just say that you can rotate the Q if you’re attached giving you the ability to chase down enemies (as otherwise if you’re not attached it’ll only go in a straight line).
W: “low cool down in late game (less than 1 second), but immobilizing effects will place ability on a 5 second cooldown”, cooldown is one word. “Slows will no longer place You and Me! on the 5 second cool down.” If it’s not an immobilizing effect anymore then it’s pointless to have it here. Otherwise the text colors are the only things that I don’t like with this one.
E: Again, you should capitalize your first letters in the quick notes.
R: The capitalization again, but you should know by now.
R: “count how many waves have already hit an enemy carry to make sure to get them” What? Why spend more time doing something that you can easily see? The reason you would count the waves would be to know how many times you’ve hit the enemy to know when they are about to get rooted in which case you can see that by looking at the enemy. Underneath the enemy champions there are 3 icons that shows underneath, indicating at which stages of the root there is. First there is a purple one, then there’s a purple one that becomes bigger, and finally when the target becomes rooted it turns into yellow (you can see that in the video showcasing the ability).
R: “can't be stopped (unless you've been killed) and only cleaned with Cleanse, Black Shield etc. - in these cases, try to bait out these abilities with your Q Prowling Projectile” I doubt anyone would waste an important ability / summoner spell like the ones you’ve mentioned just to remove a slow effect (unless you’re like bronze or below).
As for the Ability order, it’s incorrect. The standard ability order that you’re showing is not the one that is mentioned in the cheat sheet, you should fix that up. Secondly, I don’t think it’s all that necessary to mention the patch, just say that according to your experience you have thought of this: bla bla etc. Onto the spoiler with the Full Poke one (the one you have in your cheat sheet) and the Full Healing ones. If they are viable, you should have them in your cheat sheet, if they aren’t viable, you shouldn’t mention them in the guide. Finally, the last description, what is it for? It’s not connected to any ability order like the other ones and frankly the standard ability order doesn’t even have a description so I think this one is way too confusing and should changed.

Combos

Only thing I do not like in this section is the colors. If you want to have colors for your text, make them the same color so it doesn’t look annoying or become a pain when reading after a while. A good suggestion would be to make it the same color as the borders you have for the combos (in this case the light blue).

Runes

Scorch: “You might notice that enemies will try to evade getting hit by you because the range of your Q is no skillshot anymore when you're attached but will freely follow your mouse movements.” uhh, even if you’re attached and you can freely move the ability, it’s still a skillshot, you still have to hit the ability, even if you can freely rotate it you can still miss it. I think this is a pointless sentence and doesn’t explain much of why the rune is good for Yuumi.
Future’s Market: “This rune allows you to buy new items faster without having to wait until you actually have enough gold. You will be "indebted" then until you've paid off these debts by earning gold. The good thing about this rune is that even if behind, you will be able to rush items somewhat faster and you'll be able to be in debt more the longer you play - it raises in 5 minutes intervals.” This is just 3 long sentences that could be made short by just saying that the rune gives you the ability to get items faster so that you can gain powerspikes earlier in the game, with the compensation being that you’ll be in debt for some time. With the added last one being that the intervals gets higher each 5 mins.
Cosmic Insight: “However, you will be limited to the rest of the Inspiration runes at display. Future's Market is a good option. But in general, I would mainly advice picking Inspiration runes against hard to lane enemies who usually have hard crowd control effects on display.” Again, what? what do you mean by being limited to the rest of the runes on display? If this is the only good rune to pick on Yuumi, then you’ll never be picking any other Inspiration runes ever. If this isn’t the case then you should mention the other runes that is good on her, if there aren’t any, then this sentence should be removed. If you advice picking Inspiration runes against hard to lane enemies, then what runes do we pick? You don’t mention any other runes so these sentences doesn’t achieve anything and also doesn’t give an insight to why Cosmic Insight is good for Yuumi at all.
Taste of Blood: “Ultimate Hunter usually works more in my favor in regards of play style. But feel free to try it out yourself and see what works best for you.” Again, if Ultimate Hunter is a better rune choice according to your favor, why even mention this rune? You make it sound awful because there is a better rune in your opinion.
I also don’t really like how your rune section is coded. It’s way too much all over the place. I would recommend to have the Rune page images & their respective rune title put out of the spoiler and put at the top of the guide. Then I would also mention each runes that are primarily used underneath those images & then the alternative rune choices under that. I would also then explain each tree respectively before moving onto another one. So, instead of having most of the Sorcery runes at the top, then 1 in the middle of the section and the alternative ones at the end, just put them all together. Here’s an example of how I would have made the section instead.

Summoner Spells
1. The Summoner Spells section banner is still showing in the guide (the original one), so you have both your own banner and the MF created banner, you should remove that.
Items
1. I don’t like that you randomly talk about your warding section in your description about Shard of True Ice. Not only is it pointless as it doesn’t give any reason for getting the item, but the awkward space in between the entire description is also kinda annoying.
2. I also don’t really like that you mentioned the stats in your descriptions (mostly ones like Twin Shadows) as it doesn’t really help much to readers. All you’re really doing is just repeating the tooltip. Instead I would love if you could talk about why the stats could be good to have or another thing that the item is good for on Yuumi. I also fell for this trap when I made my descriptions but since then I have tried to improve on it to be more helpful to readers.
3. Now we come to the part of the section that I am the most confused about. First off, the boots. You say that you technically shouldn’t build Mobility Boots yet you still mention the item and say that if you want to build it then it’s a good item, in which case, why is it not in the cheat sheet?
4. Adding on to my previous statement, you also don’t mention any other boots in your cheat sheet nor do you explain the other available boots for Yuumi such as Ionian Boots of Lucidity (80% pick rate on users according to stat sites) and Sorcerer's Shoes (9% pick rate), why? How come Mobility Boots is the best choice for Yuumi even though it has a lower chance to be built by players according to stat sites with just 8% and has a way weaker winrate than the other items (Sorc boots & Lucidity boots are at around 50% whilst Mobility boots are only at 39%)? I know that you mention Ionian Boots of Lucidity not being worth it since you might hit the CDR limit but even if that’s the argument, how come so many people still build it in 80% more games in comparison to Mobility boots?
5. Your first description talking again about how you should build Ardent Censer and Athene's Unholy Grail is unnecessary. Why do you mention the items again if you’ve already mentioned them previously on how good they are? These items aren’t your aggressive choices that you have chosen for this part of the section so why mention them again?
6. The coding part for Morellonomicon is also incorrect in this section, it’s way smaller than the other icons.
7. My main concern here really is with Liandry's Torment, it’s not that good on Yuumi. While I know that Rylai & liandry is a common build together as they chip off and scare potential threats and is mainly a good use for squishy comps, it’s not that good. The health is wasted and is not worth because of how expensive the item is and you don't do DoT with Yuumi so the passive isn’t useful either. It also doesn't provide any CDR. The missing CDR obviously isn't an issue if you’re already capped. While these items aren’t tailored towards bursting squishies but melting tanks, they can still deal significant damage but they require DoT. Yuumi does not have DoT so it becomes useless.
8. “I usually only buy Ability Power items when I notice that the game might turn out in our favor, my team lacks AP champs or that the enemies aren't buying Magic Resistance. However, keep in mind that your E Zoomies also scales with your ability power. More AP = More healing!” Would make more sense if you also mention at the start that this is the description for Luden's Tempest, otherwise no one will know what item you’re talking about.
9. I personally don’t like that you have Lich Bane in here for some reason. I have never seen a single Yuumi player building Lich Bane and I also haven’t seen a single stat site ever featuring the item. So I do want to know your reasoning for how this could be useful. The only potential argument that you listed for the item is that you build it if you have mana problems in which case that is a waste since your core items ( Ardent Censer and Athene's Unholy Grail) already provide you with enough mana so you’ll never have mana problems. The only thing I get from this item is that it’s pointless to build and a waste of gold, if there’s no valid argument for it then you shouldn’t recommend the item.
10. It can be argued that Luden's Tempest should only be built last if you’re ahead, but as for Deathcap, you have to build it if the game goes long enough or you’re basically trolling the game. Rabadon's Deathcap provides so much necessary damage that not building it when a game is going to the point where you have the chance or if you feel like it’s not needed for a teamfight, is not a good option.
11. Here you also explain how to import the item set to the client, which I think is a much better option to do rather than clogging up the starting items at the cheat sheet, that one serves no purpose whilst this one does.
Synergies
1. Since synergies for Yuumi is not my area of expertise, I won’t really be touching this section at all.
2. Overall, good formatting. You might be able to fit in some more information, I’m pretty sure there are more to the synergies then just runes/summs to take and the playstyle of the champion. There has to be something specifically that you can do throughout the game in order to get good results for example.
Threats
1. Same will go for this section, won’t really go over it much, just the formatting itself is my only real issue here.
Teamwork
1. I think you should include more sections of information here since teamfights is a very large topic in general and there is a lot of things that you can mention about it.
2. Overall though, this is a great start since the information you have here currently is pretty helpful, but more can definitely be added to help more readers that already know the basics.
Warding
1. You did a much better job here with the colors. Whilst they are not really that ideal, at least they’re not that much and in your face all the time.
2. The vision cones and the blasting cones can probably be on their own image, since those are already there. You’re never the one placing them there or doing something that gives you that advantage, so it doesn’t really fit into this section where you talk about potential “warding spots”. This can be put into a spoiler, showcasing these and maybe some information on how to use them.
3. I also think you should include an image talking about potential warding spots on the Red side, since you’re not going to be on the blue side of the map 100% of your games.
4. I would recommend to make a spoiler and put 2 images, one explaining Red side warding spots and one for Blue side warding spots and the text (or list) underneath explaining the green numbers and pink numbers etc. I think that would look much better in this situation.
5. You should also move the pink numbers explanation so that it is underneath the explanation of the green numbers, I don’t get why it’s not there in the first place.
6. You can probably fit in more information about warding in this section I’d say. One topic you could go over is the dangers of trying to ward and gain vision, like for example face-checking a bush without knowledge can potentially backfire on you, resulting in death.
Gameplay
1. Like I said previously, you could definitely fit in some more general Support information in this section.
2. Some other potential topics you could cover would be how to properly play the early game in different situations or you can make sections on what objectives are, what you need to do to gain vision for your team ( Support is the only role that almost HAVE to make use of proper warding for their team) and how to be proactive and helpful to your team to put pressure onto the enemy team. You can probably also talk about map awareness and how important the map is in games, proper positioning or how to adapt to the game’s current state with probably many more topics in that category. I think you have a lot of directions that you can go here, but overall, having some more Support related content would be great to see in the future for this guide.
Roaming & Recalling
1. My only real issue with this section is the colors, otherwise I quite like it. The colors just makes it annoying to read and for some it may be a much bigger issue if they are always in your face in every sentence that you read.
2. The last colored description next to the back to ToC one though can stay, that one looks good, the others, not as much but that’s up to personal opinion.
  
  Final Chapters
  1. Apart from the lore, I don’t have much to say about these final sections of the guide.
  2. I don’t get the disclaimer at the end, it does not need to be there. Just explaining that none of the art in the guide is yours in the special thanks section will serve the same purpose without making the change log section a jumbled mess.

This is probably what I'd be considering as a "decent" guide in terms of depth and quality. You've gone far with the gameplay stuff and it shows that time has been put into it and the basic info & formatting is mostly there. Other than some of the potential improvements I suggested in my review, I think the biggest goal here for your guide that I'd recommend to focus on is expanding the depth of information you have, especially for the Gameplay section. I am with 100% certainty sure that there are definitely more things that you can do in a game as a

Support so I think bringing out that information to teach people more about the role will eventually let people evolve as a

Yuumi player or as any other champion for the role.

I hope you find the review helpful and good luck with the guide!

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