Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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 here show several critical Rammus against Master Yi matchup statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Master Yi. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Rammus often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Master Yi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually wins when taking on Master Yi, with a 54.2% win rate. As a result, Rammus makes a great counter to Master Yi.
While Rammus does have a much higher win rate than Master Yi, when on opposite teams, Rammus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rammus into Master Yi.
Additionally, Rammus has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rammus vs Master Yi matchups, Rammus is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rammus is a great counter for Master Yi. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rammus against Master Yi.
If you would like to truly master Rammus to counter Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Master Yi. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Rammus versus Master Yi build include Sunfire Aegis, Randuin's Omen, and Dead Man's Plate. When Rammus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Master Yi than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Rammus boasted an average win rate of 54.2% when playing against Master Yi with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Master Yi as Rammus, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Rammus vs Master Yi battles, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.2% win rate overall.
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