Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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 on this page show several valuable Yasuo vs. Master Yi matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this set of champions. Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Master Yi..
Yasuo typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Master Yi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yasuo usually fairs equally well when playing against Master Yi, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Yasuo makes an ok counter for Master Yi.
While Yasuo does have a higher win rate compared to Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Yasuo also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Yasuo into Master Yias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yasuo also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Master Yi matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Yasuo is a decent counter to Master Yi. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Yasuo against Master Yi.
If you would like to truly master Yasuo to counter Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo often accumulates much more CS as Master Yi. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Yasuo versus Master Yi build include Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Master Yi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Master Yi with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Master Yi as Yasuo, Yasuo players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Yasuo vs Master Yi LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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