Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stats provided here clarify some significant Yuumi against Lissandra matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lissandra. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Yuumi typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Lissandra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when trying to fight Lissandra, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Yuumi makes a poor counter to Lissandra.
While Yuumi does have a much lower winrate than Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Yuumi also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Yuumi into Lissandra.
Moreover, Yuumi has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Yuumi is a bad counter to Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yuumi against Lissandra.
If you would like to truly master Yuumi in order to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Lissandra. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Yuumi versus Lissandra build include Mikael's Blessing, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Yuumi bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Lissandra than with many other common builds. In fact, Yuumi had an average win rate of 45.9% when playing against Lissandra with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Lissandra as Yuumi, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Yuumi vs Lissandra counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lissandra as Yuumi are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.