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Master Yi champion portrait

Master Yi Build

Mid Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,870 gamesUpdated

49.5%win rate0.1%pick22.3%ban

Who counters Master Yi

How to build Master Yi

Gunmetal Greaves→Kraken Slayer→Blade of The Ruined King→Guinsoo's Rageblade

Gunmetal Greaves → Kraken Slayer → Blade of The Ruined King → Guinsoo's Rageblade

52.5% win rate 5% of games 59 games
RunesDominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure HunterPrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph53% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite88%
Skills
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Alpha Strike
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Meditate
314151718
Wuju Style
29101213
Highlander
61116
StartDoran's BowHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Bow, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Master Yi build →
49.5%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.3% over 4,394 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.5% over 1,870 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
48.1%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
22.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
47.2%under 22 min
53.0%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Master Yi champion portraitM Master YivsJax champion portraitM Jax
3 / 6 / 8

Build

Boots|Titanic Hydra→Kraken Slayer

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QEWQWRQQQEREE
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Master Yi champion portraitM Master YivsGragas champion portraitM Gragas
1 / 9 / 7

Build

Gunmetal Greaves|Titanic Hydra→Blade of The Ruined King

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QWEWQRQQQEREEW
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Master Yi champion portraitM Master YivsKassadin champion portraitM Kassadin
6 / 5 / 3

Build

Boots|Titanic Hydra→Blade of The Ruined King→Guinsoo's Rageblade

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWWQRQQQERWEE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.6% win rate · 53% of games · 841 games
DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure Hunter
PrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.7% win rate · 5% of games · 75 games
PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
DominationGrisly MementosTreasure Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite88%50.1%1,707 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash6%48.2%112 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Gunmetal Greaves60%Chainlaced Crushers13%Immortal Path12%
Gunmetal Greaves most often · 49.8% win rate

Master Yi build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

Whole-build counts start over with every patch, and Master Yi Mid is at 1,900 games so far this patch. The full build shows up here at 300.

Every slot, boots and full build for Master Yi →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,900 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Gunmetal GreavesGunmetal Greaves
59% · 49.9% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
12% · 45.1% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
12% · 56.4% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
7% · 54.8% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 34.8% win rate
No bootsNo boots
3% · 55.4% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Kraken Slayer+Gunmetal Greaves2% of games · 42.9% win rate · 42 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Master Yi against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Master Yi's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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