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Master Yi champion portrait

Master Yi Build

Top Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 7,967 gamesUpdated

48.1%win rate0.4%pick22.3%ban

Who counters Master Yi

How to build Master Yi

Berserker's Greaves→Blade of The Ruined King→Infinity Edge→Lord Dominik's Regards

Berserker's Greaves → Blade of The Ruined King → Infinity Edge → Lord Dominik's Regards

65.3% win rate 7% of games 380 games
RunesDominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure HunterPrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph44% 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 →
48.1%win rate
Patch 26.20: 47.7% over 18,412 gamesPatch 26.21: 48.1% over 7,967 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.1%at Emerald+
0.4%pick rate
22.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
44.3%under 22 min
53.0%over 32 min

Master Yi Top gets better as the elo rises. 48.1% across Silver and above, and 51.1% at Emerald and up. It rewards players who know the matchup.

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 30–35m
MASTER+
Master Yi champion portraitT Master YivsCamille champion portraitT Camille
9 / 11 / 4

Build

Gluttonous Greaves|Kraken Slayer→Blade of The Ruined King→The Collector

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Master Yi champion portraitT Master YivsGnar champion portraitT Gnar
6 / 8 / 2

Build

Berserker's Greaves|Blade of The Ruined King→The Collector→Lord Dominik's Regards→Immortal Shieldbow

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWR
Win 5–10m
MASTER+
Master Yi champion portraitT Master YivsMalphite champion portraitT Malphite
0 / 1 / 0

Build

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQR

Runes

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

Most popular 48.1% win rate · 44% of games · 3,289 games
DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure Hunter
PrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 40.9% win rate · 7% of games · 557 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%48.8%7,254 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash7%47.3%615 games

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

Boots
Berserker's Greaves41%Boots19%Plated Steelcaps14%No boots8%
Berserker's Greaves most often · 46.8% win rate

Master Yi build

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

  1. Blade of The Ruined King1st
  2. The Collector2nd
  3. Lord Dominik's Regards3rd
5% of games that reach a third item take this path57.0% win rate237 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Master Yi →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 7,988 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
41% · 47.1% win rate
BootsBoots
18% · 43.0% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
14% · 52.3% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
10% · 56.4% win rate
No bootsNo boots
10% · 50.4% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
6% · 58.2% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Blade of The Ruined King+Berserker's Greaves2% of games · 19.2% win rate · 182 games
  2. Blade of The Ruined King+Boots2% of games · 29.5% win rate · 129 games
  3. Blade of The Ruined King›The Collector+Berserker's Greaves1% of games · 43.0% win rate · 107 games
  4. Titanic Hydra›Blade of The Ruined King+Berserker's Greaves1% of games · 26.4% win rate · 106 games
  5. Blade of The Ruined King›The Collector+Boots1% of games · 33.7% win rate · 95 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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