What's up with AP Yi?

nevercore · 3 months

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.

Cptnwhizbang · 3 months

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.

wruffx · 3 months

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

thisisntadam · 3 months

Buy Negatron Cloak
Ignore AP Yi
???
Win game.

SonataWolf · 3 months

He's fast, he's fun.

xmodusterz · 3 months

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.

fomorian · 3 months

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.

harky · 3 months

You have two choices.

Pick a champion with any sustain.
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.

Povard · 3 months

Play Veigar.

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

Griffith · 3 months

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.

Letumstrike · 3 months

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

Merovingian89 · 3 months

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.

xLale · 3 months

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.

Calculusbitch · 3 months

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

mainstream_hipster12 · 3 months

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

lordfat · 3 months

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 · 3 months

Real men AD Yi

Djungelvral · 3 months

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."

CasualPenguin · 3 months

Need more info, who are you getting beat as?

LOLtex · 3 months

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 · 3 months

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 · 3 months

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.

AdjutantStormy · 3 months

Hard crowd control > Yi.

Absolutely universally.

Woldere · 3 months

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.

dispellado · 3 months

I'd simply say sic ryze on him.

HunterGuilherme · 3 months

Banshee's Veil

That's all

Snoopy_Hates_Germans · 3 months

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 · 3 months

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

Syzx · 3 months

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

lesp811 · 3 months

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.

dismal626 · 3 months

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

tehnoodles · 3 months

veigar > ap yi.

let the lulz commence.

Ceigee · 3 months

ignite.

Fordeezy · 3 months

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 · 3 months

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

Ahtien · 3 months

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?

ibasawstealth · 3 months

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 · 3 months

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 · 3 months

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 · 3 months

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.

WaitingonDotA · 3 months

It is a troll build that preys on bad players.

Spreek · 3 months

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.

bocelot · 3 months

If you can't counter AP Yi, then get better.

BakeAndCakes · 3 months

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UchihaIkki · 3 months

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.

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