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 underscore some vital Vex vs. Master Yi counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Master Yi..
Vex typically has a similar longest killing spree as their enemy does. Typically, they takes less damage than Master Yi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vex usually loses when taking on Master Yi, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Vex makes a bad counter for Master Yi.
While Vex does have a lower winrate compared to Master Yi, when on opposite teams, Vex also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vex into Master Yi.
Moreover, Vex also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vex vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Vex is a somewhat poor counter for Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vex against Master Yi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vex to counter Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex on average gets much more CS compared to Master Yi. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Vex versus Master Yi build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vex used at least these three items in their build, they performed much better countering Master Yi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vex had an average win rate of 48.1% when countering Master Yi with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Master Yi as Vex, Vex players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Vex vs Master Yi counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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