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 stat comparisons provided here emphasize several influential Rell vs. Master Yi matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between this set of champions. Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Master Yi. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Rell usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Master Yi. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rell usually fairs equally well when playing against Master Yi, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Rell makes an ok counter for Master Yi.
While Rell does have a lower win rate compared to Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Rell also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rell into Master Yi.
Additionally, Rell has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rell vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Rell is a somewhat poor counter to Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Rell against Master Yi.
To learn all of the intricacies of Rell in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Master Yi. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Rell versus Master Yi build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Master Yi than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Rell had an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Master Yi with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Master Yi as Rell, Rell players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Rell vs Master Yi counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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