Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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 shown here feature some important Vayne against Master Yi counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between this pair of champs. Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Master Yi..
Vayne typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Master Yi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vayne usually wins when taking on Master Yi, with a 52.1% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes a good counter for Master Yi.
While Vayne does have a higher winrate compared to Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Vayne also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Vayne into Master Yias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vayne has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Master Yi matchups, Vayne is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Vayne is an above average counter to Master Yi. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vayne against Master Yi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vayne in order to counter Master Yi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne on average picks up much more CS as Master Yi. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Vayne versus Master Yi build consist of Bloodthirster, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Vayne combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Master Yi than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vayne had an average winrate of 52.1% when playing against Master Yi with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Master Yi as Vayne, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Vayne vs Master Yi counters, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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