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 underscore several strategic Yone against Master Yi matchup stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Master Yi..
Yone often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Master Yi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yone usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Master Yi, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Yone makes an ok counter for Master Yi.
While Yone does have a lower win rate compared to Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Yone also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Yone into Master Yias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yone also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yone vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Yone is a somewhat poor counter to Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yone against Master Yi.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yone to counter Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone usually accumulates much more CS compared to Master Yi. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Yone versus Master Yi build include Infinity Edge, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Yone incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Master Yi than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Yone boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Master Yi with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Master Yi as Yone, Yone players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Yone vs Master Yi face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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