Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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 provided here highlight several critical Taliyah vs. Master Yi matchup stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Master Yi..
Taliyah often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Master Yi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when playing against Master Yi, with a 46.0% win rate. Thus, Taliyah makes a bad counter to Master Yi.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate compared to Master Yi, when on opposite teams, Taliyah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Taliyah into Master Yi.
Moreover, Taliyah also 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Taliyah is a trash counter to Master Yi. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taliyah against Master Yi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah in order to counter Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually racks up much more CS compared to Master Yi. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Taliyah versus Master Yi build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Master Yi than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 46.0% battling Master Yi with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Master Yi as Taliyah, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Taliyah vs Master Yi counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.0% winrate overall.
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