To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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 Syndra versus Master Yi counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Master Yi..
Syndra usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Master Yi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually loses when taking on Master Yi, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Syndra makes a bad counter for Master Yi.
While Syndra does have a lower win rate compared to Master Yi, when facing one another, Syndra also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Syndra into Master Yias her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Syndra 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Syndra 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Syndra is a trash counter to Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Syndra against Master Yi.
If you would like to truly master Syndra 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra often racks up much more CS as Master Yi. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Syndra versus Master Yi build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Syndra bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Master Yi than with many other common builds. In fact, Syndra had an average winrate of 47.0% battling Master Yi with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Master Yi as Syndra, Syndra players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Syndra vs Master Yi counters, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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