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[–]nevercore[WhisperV] (NA) 21 points22 points ago

Pay attention to which minion he alpha strikes on. If it doesn't die he'll reappear there. Nuke him when he does. If the minion dies Yi will reappear where he was standing when he cast alpha strike. Nuke him when he does.

[–]TheEverman 0 points1 point ago

This is honestly my favorite answer. Most of the time in these posts people complain about kits that can be abused, when most have their weaknesses as well. As an added bonus, do this every time you see an opponent teleport to an enemy minion. Nothing like being forced to stand in AOE damage.

[–]appleofpine -3 points-2 points ago

He'll appear at that minions location if the minion dies or not.

[–]BreakerGandalf[BreakerGandalf] (EU-West) 1 point2 points ago

If the minion dies before alphastrike dmg is applied, then he doesn't appear there, if it dies b/c of alphastrike, then yes, he will appear there.

[–]appleofpine 0 points1 point ago

I don't really understand this, so you AS on a minion and he dies before you arrive to him? Like, you AS there and someone last hits him while you're in flight? Where do you appear if that happens? And I'm pretty sure this rarely happens? Sorry for the questions, I'm just trying to understand this :)

[–]linguotgr 0 points1 point ago

If you AS a minion, and the minion does NOT before your AS damage is dealt, you will appear by the minion you targeted.

If you AS a minion, and it dies AFTER you targeted it, but BEFORE the AS damage is applied (duo lane gets the CS, a minion or DOT spell kills it, ect), you will appear where you were when you cast AS.

[–]appleofpine 0 points1 point ago

Cool, thanks.

[–]BreakerGandalf[BreakerGandalf] (EU-West) 0 points1 point ago*

Let's say you cast alpha strike at place A and would normally appear near the minion at place B. If the minion you casted Alpha Strike on dies (from turret or champ or w/e) before you deal any dmg with AS, you reappear at place A (where you started) and not playce B.

[–]Cptnwhizbang 11 points12 points ago

As someone who plays ap Yi fairly often, the hardest thing for me to deal with are people who can farm under their turret (people who don't farm well). For me, my personal counter has been le blanc. She tends to not push, and I'm forced to be much less arrogant with my meditate since her silence can cut through me. Early ganks work well too. Treat ap Yi as a morde, I guess: gank a lot, and make him abuse the fact that he -will- push the lane.

[–]CharlieDOliver[CharlieDOliver] (NA) 2 points3 points ago

Also, I feel like Katarina's a hard counter to Yi.

Shunpo does some serious damage, and is on a far shorter cooldown to Alpha Strike.

WQ has healing reduction, so chuck a dagger in his face every time he tries to pull that Meditate bullshit.

Finally, he's one of the few champions that can't stop Kat's ult, and trust me, you want to be able to stop Kat's ult.

[–]Aliarandacad 1 point2 points ago

He can meditank it quite easily, though.

[–]CharlieDOliver[CharlieDOliver] (NA) 2 points3 points ago

Too true. I usually try counter this by WQ-ing him, waiting out his Meditate and then jumping in with Shunpo, Exhaust and my ult.

[–]Cptnwhizbang 0 points1 point ago

Yes, meditank even through ignite is plenty to live.

[–]appleofpine 0 points1 point ago

Or you hit Q (if there are enemy minons near), dodge some of the ult, meditank the rest.

[–]iwillrememberthisacc 3 points4 points ago

le blanc screws over everyone but gets pwned late game so just don't feed and you will be fine

[–]rogeris[rogeris] (NA) 8 points9 points ago

Fuckin leblanc...

[–]wruffx 39 points40 points ago

Alpha strike has like a 10 sec CD. Once he does it, go attack him. You have 10 free seconds to dps him.

[–]Tabarnaco 19 points20 points ago

only idiots would alpha strike and stand there waiting to die. and poke is useless because of meditate.

[–]ne0pwns[Provokage] (NA) 6 points7 points ago

Play a champion that can poke and has healing reduction...Fizz would be great!

[–]hammertime1070[4poolPROXYHATCH] (NA) 1 point2 points ago

Have you ever played AP yi, you got maybe 20 secs of meditate to drain mana from 100 to 0.

[–]Tabarnaco -1 points0 points ago

dont act as if you know anything with a statement thats fundamentally wrong

[–]hammertime1070[4poolPROXYHATCH] (NA) 1 point2 points ago

At level 6 you have about 350 mana, each meditate drains 100 mana. So actually, I am right. Moron.

[–]Tabarnaco -1 points0 points ago

i hope you don't talk to your mother with that mouth

[–]hammertime1070[4poolPROXYHATCH] (NA) 1 point2 points ago

I hope you don't spout retarded things and then after seeing the evidence continue to hold your stupid beliefs.

[–]Tabarnaco -1 points0 points ago

when you're older maybe you'll understand, kid

[–]hammertime1070[4poolPROXYHATCH] (NA) 1 point2 points ago

Right, thats not a logical fallacy. You right.

[–]Suq_Madiq_Beech 0 points1 point ago

You seem to forget he is pretty mana dependent. Using alpha and meditate constantly would drain his mana faster than you Côme.

[–]Tabarnaco -3 points-2 points ago

if you wanna be at a disadvantage by missing on cs in order to poke 24/7 then yea maybe you can force him to leave before he does it to you

[–]Suq_Madiq_Beech 2 points3 points ago

honestly, it isn't hard to poke and grab those last hits in between pokes. You sound like you never play solo mid ap and never play master yi

[–]Tabarnaco -2 points-1 points ago

and i'm sure you did

[–]Bustycops[FROIDBUSTER] (NA) 0 points1 point ago

Early game Yi isn't exactly Alpha strike full clearing > Meditating on every wave.

Most APs can freely harass him with ranged attacks alone. It's not instant gratification, but AP Yi isn't exactly a terror. He can't even harass after Alpha striking early because he'll take too much creep damage being in the middle of your wave.

[–]Praxis1452[Praxis1452] (NA) 5 points6 points ago

The main problem with this is meditate. That has a 20+s cd or so. It's just you alphastrike and run away. The only thing that really counters that is breaking the channel with a stun, which some champions don't have.

If they try to chase you and don't have a stun you can just meditate through it and heal. Also yi has a pretty high movespeed and with his ult it's pretty much impossible to ever get ganked.

Basically I think if you have the ability to abuse his cd's do so, but with certain kits that's just not really possible. He's gonna alphastrike you, and if you really go after him he'll meditate through it or just run away fast enough.

I think the best thing to do is just let him push you to try and dodge is a-strike by not being near the front of 4 minions if you're ranged and can farm like that. you'll be at tower and if he a-strikes you there, hopefully you have a snare or something when he ends up right next to you.

[–]thisisntadam 17 points18 points ago

  1. Buy Negatron Cloak
  2. Ignore AP Yi
  3. ???
  4. Win game.

[–]TSPhoenix[TSP] (NA) 1 point2 points ago

Yes rushing Negatron will help you a lot in lane, and Abyssal is good on most APs, but on some champs buying that over AP is going to hurt your teamfighting power early on pretty badly.

[–]thisisntadam 2 points3 points ago

If you are losing your lane to an AP Yi, surviving teamfights should be the least of your concerns at that point. And if you buy AP in an attempt to help teamfights, AP Yi is just going to alpha strike your whole team anyway.

[–]TempRedditUsername 2 points3 points ago

On the contrary, AP Yi is a pretty decent laner. It's his teamfighting that is bad; the ideal of "press R and alpha strike 4 times in a row" almost never happens

[–]thisisntadam 0 points1 point ago

I think we are agreeing, generally. AP Yi is annoying in lane, but buy a little MR and it slows him down considerably. When teamfights happen, you can, for the most part, not concern yourself with him.

[–]TempRedditUsername 0 points1 point ago

Ok. Hey, you should check out protatomonster's latest video, it's pretty relevant to this

[–]SonataWolf 32 points33 points ago

He's fast, he's fun.

[–]KatanaMordecai[KatanaMordecai] (NA) 10 points11 points ago

Well, I thought it was good.

[–]Pywodwagon[Pywodwagon] (NA) 8 points9 points ago

He's dominion?

[–]abluecardigan 10 points11 points ago

Dominon's fun?

[–]Pywodwagon[Pywodwagon] (NA) 0 points1 point ago

Woooosh

[–]xmodusterz 18 points19 points ago

you are ranged, he is not, you can burst, he can't, stay to the side of your minions out of range of alpha and last hit while he doesn't hit you and does nothing. or CC and kill him if you got it.

[–]Zottelkappe 81 points82 points ago

I have daggers on my shoes. Your argument is invalid.

[–]kodutta7 9 points10 points ago

Swordboots OP.

[–]Tareos[Taereus] (NA) 0 points1 point ago

I have a sinking feeling that they're gonna get nerfed to oblivion someday.

[–]ReflexMan 16 points17 points ago*

I don't accept that argument. He isn't ranged? Alpha Strike, under good circumstances, is probably the strongest ranged harass in the game. Also, it scales well enough that I would call that single ability "burst." Sure, you might have 2 or 3 abilities to chain together on him, but odds are Alpha Strike did nearly as much damage to you by itself. Also, "out of range of alpha." Have you ever laned against a Yi? The distance between one target and the next can be quite large, and he can still bounce to it. Assuming you are mid, it is next to impossible to stand in xp range of his minions without standing in bounce range of your caster minions. (Not to mention out of range of last hitting his minions). Then guess what, AP Yi laughs and meditates off whatever damage you did to him.

He really is too strong of a laner. (Not saying he is super duper late game. Just saying that laning against AP Yi is pretty much 10-15 minutes of hell)

[–]TheHiccup[Catablecatabon] (NA) 7 points8 points ago

The cooldown on Alpha is ten seconds at level 5 and much higher before that; you probably won't even get to that point and not be able to hit back for more unless you've already fed him. But the cooldown is so long that most AP mids can get their combo off and then some before he can do anything back to you. If he runs off and meditates, stun him and hit him again, then that'll be on cooldown for another 35 seconds after and you just hit him again.

Someone like Ahri or Gragas (though Gragas sacrifices the ability to farm with range) with innate sustain, mobility, and a little CC could probably eat Yi's lunch. AP Sion, too, I can see working; just hit your shield when he alpha strikes, stun him after, and pop right there.

[–]Davebo 2 points3 points ago

ap yi vs ap sion is the most annoying lane ever. they have the EXACT same ap ratio and base damage (on alpha/shield) so if yi has sorc boots he'll win with just slightly more ap. It's like the snowballiest lane ever.

[–]RCIX 0 points1 point ago

The difference though is stun vs. channeling heal; Sion can out-nuke by virtue of having a pair of abilities to damage (or one to damage and one to eat Yi's harass) whereas Yi only gets Alpha Strike.

[–]xmodusterz 3 points4 points ago

You need a pusher. play morde, push minions to turret, go grab wraiths, repeat. or malz with his E you can just hit it then walk out of range. This is more what I meant when I said stay out of range. At his turret he has to keep using alpha strike on minions while not harassing you, and if he uses it on minions then he loses last hitting at the turret. Also another way is play ryze. every time he alpha strikes you he gets in close so just stun and burst. I guess I might not be playing against good AP yi's but none that I've played against have done more damage with one alpha strike then me spamming all my abilities as ryze. then push to turret, if he meditates he loses cs. You'll lose a bit of gold because of all the wards since your constantly pushed but you'll deny him farm and keep yourself safe.

[–]KaffeeKiffer 0 points1 point ago

every time he alpha strikes you he gets in close so just stun and burst

Any good Yi will Alpha Strike minions who die to it => He will go back to where he started the alpha strike from and try to damage you with excess jumps.

[–]fomorian 5 points6 points ago

There's a method for determining if the alpha strike will hit you. It goes for the target closest to the previous target. So if there are 4 clumped up minions and he qs one of them, then he won't hit you.

[–]SaltedCream[SaltedCream] (NA) 3 points4 points ago

This is really all it takes to shut down his harass. I've laned against them plenty and rarely get hit by sitting towards the side. Just keep the brush closest to you warded so the jungle doesn't jump on you

[–]Cendeu 2 points3 points ago

Smart Yi's use this to make sure they get a hit with it.

[–]4mb1guous[Am6i] (NA) 1 point2 points ago

He also reappears at the first target he hits, so you can use that knowledge to land super easy skillshots.

[–]harky 3 points4 points ago

You have two choices.

  1. Pick a champion with any sustain.

  2. Pick a champion with a silence/knockback/knockup/stun.

AP Yi can now do nothing to you in lane. Enjoy.

That said you can beat him with just about anything that's ranged simply by farming. AP Yi does nothing outside of laning.

[–]TSPhoenix[TSP] (NA) 0 points1 point ago

This is assuming you can counterpick him. AP Yi is best chosen as a counter to various AP mids. Plus if they do pick him first they can always pick another AP that fares better and put him in the jungle or something.

[–]harky 0 points1 point ago

If you can't counter pick him, you just farm. He really has no way of stopping a ranged character from passively farming. If he continues to build AP they will outscale him substantially. You pick AP Yi because you think the opponents won't understand him and want to take advantage of it.

[–]Povard 2 points3 points ago

Play Veigar.

"Oh you wanna build AP, do you? You suuuure about that?"

[–]DanVsWorld 0 points1 point ago

FUCKING THIS.

[–]Aviyor 0 points1 point ago

This works excellent, but note that you must be cautious about landing E's. I had this awful veigar once that would miss his stun, surrounding yi, but allow him to alpha strike to him outside of the stun. If Yi isn't stunned/buys a QSS, he can eat your burst damage with meditate.

[–]Griffith[Griffithpt] (NA) 3 points4 points ago

AP Yi is one of the reasons I hate LoL's community... months ago when I did it for fun the reactions were: "Stop trolling", "you're ruining the game", "go jungle". Now that it's the meta... "Ap Yi is annoying how do I deal with him, so much damage".

I'm not claiming I'm unique or responsible for AP Yi's existence, but I wish people weren't so absolute about what criticism to give to someone just because what they are doing doesn't fall into the current meta. The meta is anything but written in stone, and the popularity of this champion build proves it.

People should learn to be a bit more lenient against non-standards builds.

[–]Odins_Eye 0 points1 point ago

especially when they work well.

[–]Rich0 0 points1 point ago

As someone who as this exact problem when I feel like to play my AP soraka mid, I agree.

[–]Letumstrike 0 points1 point ago

Play Brand or Karthus, Brand can instakill him any time he is stupid enough to alpha strike anywhere near you with your ignite up. When playing Karthus, you farm from a distance and laugh at him while ulting his teammates as he can do nothing to stop you

[–]Woldere[Woldere] (EU-W) -3 points-2 points ago

Karthus is quite possibly the single worst champion to pick against AP Yi. You sir, have no idea what you're talking about.

[–]lesp811 0 points1 point ago

karthus has no stun for meditate but can easily just farm with his q and just be quick with his wall to keep yi off him. Not really ideal but not the worst pick. :/

[–]TeacHa-[TeacHa] (EU-W) 0 points1 point ago

I really don't know why you get downvoted. You're right, karthus is bad against an ap yi.

[–]Letumstrike 0 points1 point ago

You obviously didn't read the entire statement, AP yi isn't very dangerous in lane if you have lots of range (karthus does), therefore, you can just afk farm the lane and have 300 cs at 30 minutes.

[–]Merovingian89[Ze Merovingian] (NA) 2 points3 points ago

In my mind, this is a legitimate gripe. Although the points posted here are valid there is something to be said about AP Yi's intrinsic gimmicky-ness. I do have to say however that while his alpha strike is annoying it is important to note it's long CD and your ability as a traditional AP carry to do more damage to him once you hit about level 4. While AP Yi will have the very early advantage, if you play smart and passively you should be able to win the lane after level 5.

[–]Spreek[Spreekaway] (NA) 0 points1 point ago

Unless you one shot him, he will heal all your harass back with meditate, so there's not much point in saying you outdamage him.

[–]xLale 0 points1 point ago

Grab katarina, after he alpha's shunpo on his face, he meditating? W + Q will reduce heal to half, while he's sitting there healing half pop your ult.

[–]verekh[Verekh] (EU-W) 5 points6 points ago

Popping your ultimate on someone who has +300 MR isn't really the smartest thing to do, even if it doesn't heal him as well.

[–]Calculusbitch 2 points3 points ago

Just played an AP yi in normal that jungled. He raped the shit out of us

[–]verekh[Verekh] (EU-W) 0 points1 point ago

Holy fuck dude, just ward his blue and steal it every time he attempts to get it.

[–]Calculusbitch 0 points1 point ago

He feed on top like a bawz, had 7-1 in about 10 min

[–]mainstream_hipster12 3 points4 points ago

He's popular because of the new skin about to come out with the new Alpha strike animation.

[–]lordfat 3 points4 points ago

Alex Ich from M5 has been playing AP Yi a lot in Solo Q recently so perhaps thats the reason. Thats why I've been playing him lately, at least.

[–]Derppy[Dorppy] (NA) 2 points3 points ago

Real men AD Yi

[–]othaniel[S] -1 points0 points ago

Real men do, but faggots who call them selves good go AP.

[–]Djungelvral 2 points3 points ago

Funny that you posted this... I just saw one for the first time in forever last game and he did horribly. He farmed well, but all he has is his Q... My teammates were like "Hey Yi's coming bot to gank you," and I'm like "Okay... so he's gonna Q me and I'm gonna run away/kill him? Cool."

[–]AzorMX[AzorMX] (NA) 1 point2 points ago

The deal with AP Yi is that his DPS snowballs hard. Imagine he has about 300 AP, then he alpha strikes and deals 600 damage to 4 targets. Sound low right? Well, the trick about AP Yi is the CD refresh on his ultimate, use Q and deal 600 to everyone with ult, kill someone, do it again and now you have dealt 1200 damage, keep going for easy pentas.

AP Yis rely on having too much AP or entering the fight as someone is about to die.

[–]Djungelvral 0 points1 point ago

Oh, I know. I've played him in enough troll games, but he's still terrible. It's a gimmick and a bad one at that.

[–]CasualPenguin 1 point2 points ago

Need more info, who are you getting beat as?

[–]LOLtex 0 points1 point ago

I was lucky enough to be Cassio when I laned against one, so I'd q/eee every time he alpha striked me. When he meditated, I threw on ignite and killed him. I'm not sure what I would do as someone else, probably just farm and survive.

[–]Bwob 0 points1 point ago

Anyone with a stun/disable can just knock him out of meditate.

When I met one as LeBlanc, her silence worked fine.

When I fought him as Fizz, I just dashed in and killed him with my W, since it gives a 50%-healing debuff.

[–]icheckessay 0 points1 point ago

Play morde, harass him back and once you have revolver you're pretty much unbeatable, also, ssay hi to him once you both get to late game and you're destroying his team while he's just in the corner.

[–]CAT_FACT_BOT 6 points7 points ago

CAT FACTS:

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day

[–]othaniel[S] 0 points1 point ago

I do need to learn Morde again, he's not too shabby.

[–]AdjutantStormy[Adjutant Stormy] (NA) 0 points1 point ago

Hard crowd control > Yi.

Absolutely universally.

[–]Woldere[Woldere] (EU-W) 0 points1 point ago*

If you don't have an interrupt for his meditate, there's nothing you can do against him. Best thing to do is just farm, try to avoid getting hit by his Q and ignore him. DO NOT USE MANA TO HARRASS HIM IF YOU CANNOT KILL HIM.

If you do have an interrupt, you can trade with him and insta-interrupt his meditate if you can.

But yeah, AP Yi poops hard on any mage without an interrupt. Post lvl6, never gank him unless your jungler is fiddlesticks and you're Malzahar. And never chase an AP Yi, never focus an AP Yi. He's like 10x worse than Singed and Nidalee combined. Don't group up in teamfights if 1 of your teammates is low HP, that's basically just giving him a free pentakill.

Also, pre-lvl6 ganks mess AP Yi up really hard.

[–]othaniel[S] 0 points1 point ago

So pretty much you have to heavy shut him down early or else you're fucked.

[–]dispellado 0 points1 point ago

I'd simply say sic ryze on him.

[–]HunterGuilherme 1 point2 points ago

Banshee's Veil

That's all

[–]Snoopy_Hates_Germans 1 point2 points ago

I would disagree that he falls off late game. With a full build, he's quite formidable, and you can pull off the BEST baits with Meditate.

[–]Agurthewise 0 points1 point ago

AP Yi is probably one of the easiest mids to use at low skill levels.

  • Q usually kills so CS'ing is easy for yi.
  • Q can harass well if your opponent doesn't stay away from their creeps
  • Meditate allows him to stay in lane way longer than other champs who would be forced to back. You can't poke a yi out of lane.

All of his strengths are easily countered / ignored by solid play, just need to play better. :D

[–]othaniel[S] 0 points1 point ago

Exactly. I'm actively trying to get better, of course. I like to think I'm not terrible but I still have those retarded moments =P

[–]Agurthewise 1 point2 points ago

good luck we all have these moments

[–]Syzx 0 points1 point ago

I have yet to see a good or even decent AP YI

[–]othaniel[S] 0 points1 point ago

I'm not even talking good/decent AP Yis, just a monkey can stack ap and press Q over and over again. It's mostly his early game pokes. Even if I trade back as much as he hits me for, he meditates it away.

[–]lesp811 0 points1 point ago

Stuns for his meditate and extreme aggression while his abilities are on cool down. Get lots of auto attacks in since most mids are ranged and yi is melee.

[–]othaniel[S] 0 points1 point ago

I was playing as an AP TF and did fairly well later game just had to stun when he popped Meditate. It was more early game his poke, I couldn't deal with. Then he'd just flash in and ignite me and I couldn't do anything.

[–]dismal626 0 points1 point ago

Dyrus played it om stream and ever since then I've been seeing it all over the place.

[–]othaniel[S] 1 point2 points ago

Oh maybe that's where it's coming from. I heard Alex Ich from M5 was streaming as AP Yi a bit too.

[–]tehnoodles 0 points1 point ago

veigar > ap yi.

let the lulz commence.

[–]Ceigee 1 point2 points ago

ignite.

[–]Fordeezy 0 points1 point ago

I am a pretty good player don't spam a lot of ranked because I usually play with 3 of my friends so I'm only 1600 with less then 75 games in but I play AP Yi a lot. There aren't many lanes I loose to, fizz is probably the toughest I have faced. People don't play Yi right in team fights so everyone thinks he is complete garbage (he isn't the best but is far from garbage) instead of wasting a q immediately when the fight starts you wait until someone is low then q them so it refreshes on kill. He does an amazing amount in team fights if you choose him against a team with low CC. For laning against him it's basically what people are saying. When he uses alpha beat his ass, but either way if the person know how to AP Yi they won't let themselves die that easily. All around I could see him becoming more and more popular ESPECIALLY with this new skin, he's very underrated since not many people play him and play him correctly.

[–]linguotgr 0 points1 point ago

I find hard stuns in lane destroy him, bait the meditate and then stun him, he loses all sustain.

[–]Ahtien 0 points1 point ago

I have a question: I played AP Yi yesternight, and as i jumped into amumu ult combined with some ziggs damage ( will be nurfed :O ) i made a double kill, but Alpha Strike was still on cooldown. why is that? bug or feature?

[–]Fordeezy 0 points1 point ago

You have to pop your ult first for the on kill refresher :P

[–]Ahtien 0 points1 point ago

ohhhh yeaa right , i just tested it and its not buggy ;) that happens when one cant read tooltips ..

[–]ibasawstealth[StealthE] (NA) 1 point2 points ago

Buy a negatron cloak for laning phase. (or chalice if you are a mana based ap carry)

When he meditates, ignite him, wait, then burst him down when he's done.

[–]Gymleaders 0 points1 point ago

I play ARAM a LOT lately. When there's a Yi on the enemy team, DODGE. ALWAYS. AP Yi single handedly carries ARAMs. It's a waste of time to even try to win. D;

[–]Cendeu -2 points-1 points ago

I (about 3 months ago, so I'm not one of the current resurgence) loved to play him Support.

He constantly wittles down the enemy's health bot, and enables kills fairly well. He cant die (meditate OP when actually leveled up early on) easily.

Yeah, he can't sheild or heal... he steals Cs... and so on. But for normals, he's a really solid and really fun support Bot.

but once again, this was months ago. And I no longer do it.

[–]tehcheeztaco[tehcheeztaco] (EU-W) -1 points0 points ago

It seems like every time some semi-famous youtuber plays one game as yi or trondomeeer, everyone plays them for a couple of weeks and it is annoying. Yi and trynd are both very easy champs to play (this is stated in the game) and thus easy to do well as, normally I let it slide when yi goes 14/2/3 and goes "I am the best player ever, you guys suck" but it seems like it happens too frequently.

[–]DevinTheGrand[Robilliard] (NA) 4 points5 points ago

Yi is not an easy champ to play outside of like 900 Elo. If your opponents know how to play at all it is very difficult to get to hypercarry status.

[–]Spreek[Spreekaway] (NA) 0 points1 point ago

Coming from someone who plays AP yi fairly often. First of all, he's not that terrible of a choice, at least in solo queue.

Yi is a very strong laner in mid. Many APs struggle to beat him, because he has more or less a full heal with some AP. If you can't burst him 100% to 0, there's almost no point.

Yi does well vs. sustained damage APs (e.g., vlad and karthus) in mid because he will heal it all back. It's better to pick burst casters, ideally with a silence (hardest counter: leblanc), or very tanky, sustained champions (Cho, singed, or morgana who can shield most of alpha strikes)

In lane, your best bet is to farm at tower (assuming you can't one shot him), waiting for ganks. Make sure to buy plenty of health pots, and an early negatron cloak. Even if your build is set back a little, it's better than justifying his pick by feeding kills to him.

Provided he doesn't get a million kills, his team fight ability is definitely subpar to other APs, though perhaps not as terrible as some people think.

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[–]BakeAndCakes 2 points3 points ago

no sustain?

[–]UchihaIkki -4 points-3 points ago

Your skills are inferior

J/k,I'm also annoyed by them,and the worst is because Yi users pisses me off because they think they are good. -____-'

No wonder why Yi is considered a noob character.

PS: I may not be good,but I don't brag either.

[–]othaniel[S] -1 points0 points ago

Haha I totally understand. I like to think I'm pretty good, but I don't try to demean other people if I think I'm better than them.