If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
The stats shown on this page feature several strategic Fiddlesticks against Master Yi counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Master Yi..
Fiddlesticks normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Master Yi. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually loses when playing against Master Yi, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, Fiddlesticks makes a bad counter for Master Yi.
While Fiddlesticks does have a lower win rate compared to Master Yi, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Fiddlesticks into Master Yias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a garbage counter to Master Yi. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Fiddlesticks against Master Yi.
If you would like to truly master Fiddlesticks to counter Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Master Yi. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Fiddlesticks versus Master Yi build include Malignance, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Master Yi than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average win rate of 46.5% when countering Master Yi with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Master Yi as Fiddlesticks, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Fiddlesticks vs Master Yi counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Master Yi as Fiddlesticks are presented for all ranked divisions. To scope the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.