Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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 on this page show several important Warwick against Master Yi matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Master Yi..
Warwick normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Master Yi. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Warwick usually fairs equally well when playing against Master Yi, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Warwick makes an ok counter for Master Yi.
While Warwick does have a higher winrate compared to Master Yi, when on opposite teams, Warwick also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Warwick into Master Yi.
Furthermore, Warwick has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Master Yi matchups, Warwick is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Warwick is a decent counter to Master Yi. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Warwick against Master Yi.
If you would like to truly master Warwick in order 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Master Yi. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Warwick versus Master Yi build include Thornmail, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Warwick included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Master Yi than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Warwick had an average win rate of 50.1% when countering Master Yi with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Master Yi as Warwick, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Warwick vs Master Yi clashes, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Master Yi as Warwick are given for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.