Everything Wrong With: Master Yi | League of Legends

Master Yi is one of the most iconic yet polarizing champions in League of Legends. He's also one of the most disliked champions in the game due to his extreme snowbally nature. So for today's episode of Everything Wrong With, we're gonna talk about Master Yi: The Wuju Bladesman!

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[arkokroeger]

I think one of the issues with master yi is also that once he 1v9s the games there is absolutely no semblance of teamfighting anymore. Instead he just chainsaws through the entire enemy team and you feel pretty useless in comparison. I guess that's true for all hypercarries, but master yi is the most hypercarry hypercarry to hypercarry a game.

[ivarjriibabyrbfh]

In the words of skooch ''It should be like playing with 4 starving children and a fucking super saiyan''

[Langharig_Tuig]

The problem with Yi is that the game revolves around him and only him. All enemies have to play to counter him and all his allies have to play to support him. This also explains why he is a pubstomper; low elo players do not care about or understand picking a teamcomp and they even moreso do not coordinate. Thus Yi can just roll over the enemies. In higher elo people see Yi being picked, collectively groan, pick accordingly and play accordingly and just keep him in check.

[William-Afton_jejcjschheiqx]

“Skirmishers excel at single targets damage” master yi being in the top three pentakilers in the game, he did not understand the assignment.

[Zyrvaria]

personally I feel like even having a good yi on your team is a negative experience, because I feel like I didn't need to be there then

[gamediverbr]

I remember that during Fiora's rework it was highlighted how her ult was broken, which by the way is basically Master Yi's Q. The skill is too strong to be in an ult, but it's ok to be in a basic skill with reset capability...

[DemonLordGamingAC]

Nothing more boring than facechecking a Master Yi that pops his ultimate. You just feel like instantly letting go of you keyboard because you're dead no matter who you are. Best case scenario here now is to take him with you by forcing him to dive.

On the flipside, nothing better than having a Master Yi on my team as a Rell main. All it takes is for me to peel for them and they solo win the game

[einjharrelraca]

My issue with yi is the fact that after level 9 he just isnt ever fucking targetable. He is ALWAYS in q or duskblade. So riot has handed him a 750 range (longer than caitlyn auto range btw) point and click, instant kill that doubles as a zhonya's, THAT FUCKING RESETS if he farted once 8 months ago.

[FeiFongWang]

He needs a visual update. His design was always extremely goofy looking. Paper thin guy wielding a massive Scottish looking greatsword with rings in it for some reason. What.

[deskartsu]

There could also be the factor of him having only 2 states of being: 90% he swings his sword, sometimes disappearing while doing so, and 10% he meditates. Unlike champs such as Fiona and Tryndamere who have their reposte + dash and taunt + spin, that distribute that ratio more

[ethanm]

Great video and analysis of Yi, personally one of my more disliked champs just because im a low elo shitter and a chogath/sion main. But then again i tend to dislike a lot of hypercrarries and you are right that even if yi is the min maxxed hyper carry imo he is far from the most offensive one.

I will say yi did give me one of the funniest highlights i have to date where i got pretty fed as cho and i had old gargoyles and yi went on top of me and diana,
With both of us attacking him, i popped gargoyles and that mans health bar started to ping pong between how much damage we were doing and just how much he was healing off of my massive health bar.

[flemlius]

I hate how when ahead it feels like there is absolutely nothing I cam do to stop him. I vividly remember a game I played Rammus in. The team was doing SoloQ things so the Yi got just a few kills, then mid game it straight up didn't matter I had like 350 armor, he killed me within two seconds.
Gets me back to the Vayne problem where too much true damage is extremely frustrating to play against as a tank cause my main counterplay (items) is useless.

[callmeshifu]

If I remember correctly, Master Yi in the lore is supposed to be that wise master who is extremely powerful but only resorts to violence when there truly is no other choice. His "obliterate the entire enemy team or die trying" playstyle makes absolutely no sense in the context of his character. That alone could be a good reason to rework him, But the saddest part is that there are plenty more.

[Mmoll]

For me, one of the biggest problem with Yi is that he is untargetable or has 90%DR for such a large portion of a fight. It's infuriating.

[craven]

Skooch's "Can We Talk About This?" Video about Yi sums up the issue with Yi, and by extension most other hyper carry champions. In order for them to succeed the rest of their team must fail, or at best concede that the main character is running the show. Meaning a hyper carry being on your team means you have to play around them and let them have all of the fun, and for the enemy team it's basically a case of having to dedicate everything to killing one person, and if you can't you just lose.

[jakoby]

I hope you're gonna react to the changes we get in next season. I really want to know what you think about the new items especially.

[akalaiderxd]

One thing that was not mentioned was how polarizing it is to play against with and without cc. If tf lands a gold card on him, his just dead, full stop, while if he misses, then it's gg.

[dongholio]

I swear, having a Yi on your team in bronze is like an ELO death sentence.

[dhruvaz]

The Reason I became a Master Yi main is that the first ever game of League I played, all I saw was a green flash on the opponent's team getting 40ish kills or smtg. I dont regret my decision of maining Yi

[metrux]

Not on Yi, but a game I watched today made me think: Is Zoe a mix between mage and assassin? She actually works more as a ranged ap assassin than a mage, she relies on vision and angles, mobility and burst, with low to no defensive options, and very squishy...