Master Yi with Kindred
How to Synergize Master Yi and Kindred
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Master Yi Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Master Yi vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Master Yi and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Master Yi with Kindred
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
Advice to Understand How Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Master Yi Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Master Yi in LoL
The Master Yi Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Master Yi sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kindred. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kindred helps Master Yi perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Master Yi tries to synergize with Kindred, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Kindred supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Master Yi is played together with Kindred on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kindred. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kindred.
Additionally, when Master Yi plays with Kindred on the same side, he often receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Master Yi during teamfights.
Synergies between Master Yi and Kindred
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Is Master Yi better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Master Yi that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Kindred is a terrible companion for Master Yi. By being on the same team as Master Yi, they decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Master Yi and Kindred that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kindred has a lower difficulty than Master Yi. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Kindred teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Master Yi players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Master Yi and Kindred together, you may not be granting your other allies very much magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kindred ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Master Yi to pair well with Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Master Yi and Kindred synergy build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Master Yi included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Kindred than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Master Yi had an average win rate of 47.0% helping carry Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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