No matter how many Riotas try to balance this champion, a lot of dissatisfied players still remain on the forums. A little earlier, Master Yee (the guide jungle) gathered exclusively in the AP assembly and, by the end of the game, destroyed all the enemyās hopes for victory. But in recent seasons and with current patches, such an assembly is already useless, so we will build the champion according to the classic challenger scheme, which has shown itself well and allows you to at least somehow live up to the late if you are not very lucky at the beginning of the game.
So, we play League of Legends: Master Yi - guide to the forest champion. Consider all the subtleties of cleaning the forest, along with a description of skills and behavior at different stages of the game.
Abilities
Double strike (passive) . Every fourth attack in a row allows you to perform another one without taking into account the attack speed, that is, instantly. If the champion leaves the battlefield, the counter is reset. At the beginning of the game, passivation is practically useless, but after buying an item for attack speed, everything changes for the better.
First strike (Q) . The champion rushes into the thick of the enemies and inflicts physical damage to four opponents who are not far from each other. Moreover, this skill can be critical, and therefore cause additional damage. Neutral monsters and minions on the line take increased damage, and auto-attacks reduce the reload time of the āfirst strikeā. If itās right, and most importantly, to use this skill in time, it will save your life more than once, interrupting many of the enemyās skills.
Meditation (W) . After activating the skill, the champion falls into meditation, restoring his health, and the less it is, the faster it will be replenished. It is also worth noting that in recent seasons of the LoL Game in a state of meditation, the champion takes significantly less damage from enemies (the effect is noticeably weaker for the towers). The skill is perfect for protection against absolute skills over an area with great damage.
Wuju style (E) . The passive effect increases the attack power of the champion by a certain percentage, depending on the degree of pumping skills. At the time of use, Master Yi starts, in addition to physical damage, also dealing a fraction of the net (depending on the strength of the attack).
Highlander (R) . A pumped absolute skill reduces the cooldown of all other champion skills when assisting or killing an opponent. At the time of use, the speed of movement and attacks of Master Yi significantly increases, and any slowdowns do not affect the champion, with the exception of direct control effects (Morgana root, Lux cell, Ultimate Malzahara, etc.)
Spells
The choice of spells is not particularly diverse, this guide was no exception. Master Yi, for lack of control, can gather through "Exhaustion", but still it is better to take a safe "Jump" coupled with "Kara", otherwise no changes.
Skill upgrade
First of all, we pump over our main attacking ability āFirst strikeā. It is worth noting that this is relevant only for playing the champion as a jungler, that is, for this guide (Master Yi - forest), in other cases (playing on the line) it is better to start with the āWuju Styleā. Our Q helps to quickly clean the forest, and the E-box does enough damage to forest creeps. The skill "Meditation" can be pumped by one position and forget about it until the end of the game.
Secondly, we upgrade our āWuju Styleā, not forgetting to use it before each battle. We maximize the championās absolute skill out of turn, because it will help us both to catch up with the enemy and it is easy to run away if something goes wrong (and this will be quite often).
Talents and Runes
There is not much variety here, we set everything up as an ordinary assassin. If you want to experiment, then you can familiarize yourself with an alternative Korean set of talents, but this will be a rather risky guide for a beginner.
Master Yi is a cursing forester, so runes are suitable for ordinary ADK: in fifths - attack speed, in signs - physical damage, and the rest by standard - armor and magic resistance (if possible, it is better to take a growing indicator with the champion level) . With such runes and talents, you can safely clean the forest without fear of health subsidence.
Assembly
By default, LoL Game recommends a āHunter Mascotā, but if you start with a blue buff, then it makes sense to take a āMacheteā, which will allow us to maintain a significant part of our health while cleaning the forest. Next, we buy three servings of potions for health (as an option - āRefillable potionā) and take the ward.
This guide (Master Yee - Forest) strongly recommends upgrading the machete to "Saber Badass", as today's meta is filled not only with tanks on the line, but also with "fat" magicians who do not disdain to buy armor. In this case, the net damage from āKaraā will significantly increase your combat potential, even for 4 seconds.
Main build
Next, we collect āBerserker Bootsā, āGinsu's Rage Bladeā (an extremely useful item working with our passive) and, depending on the composition of the enemy team, choose: āInfinity Edgeā, āLord Dominicā or āBlade of the Ruined Kingā. The protective build is also collected depending on the setup of the enemy: a lot of AD-Kerry - we collect āStudded Armorā, AP damage - the Banshu build, and āGuardian Angelā perfectly helps with mixed attacks.
Champ Pros and Cons
Like any other hero of the League of Legends, Master Yi has its positive and negative qualities that must be taken into account before the championās peak in the lobby, otherwise you canāt normally line up, and there will be little benefit from you at the end of the game.
Pros:
- quick cleaning of the forest;
- little dependence on the blue improvement, so the buff can be given to a very needy middler or topper;
- quickly deals with the enemy, especially if the enemy does not have built-in escape or hard control skills;
- excellent basic speed of movement allows you to successfully gank lines and quickly move around the map (counter jungle);
- thanks to absolute ability, it can become superfast, catching up with any League champion;
- a good indicator of damage per second, and after the acquisition of "Ginsu Rage", a passive skill is triggered twice as often.
Minuses:
- lack of any control skills for the champion, except for the purchased artifacts (guide: Master Yi of the fifth season gathered through the āBlade of the Ruined Kingā, but today's meta excludes this item);
- comparatively bad ganks at the beginning of the game;
- inferior in health and skills to many foresters in the early stages of the game;
- great dependence on auto-attacks, and therefore it is easily counteracted by armor and objects on health;
- in terms of defense - a very weak champion (if the enemy team focuses on the Master, then he simply will not reveal his potential by going to the fountain).
The Master does not have any synergy with other champions of the League of Legends. Starting from the first minutes of the game, the solo champion spends time either in the forest or on the line, so no effective combinations with other players are provided.