Master Yi Quotes
267 voice lines from League of Legends, 35 of them in Master Yi's own voice. Two skins come with a voice of their own: PROJECT, Inkshadow.
Pick
"My blade is yours."
Ban
"Doubt is the greatest enemy."
Master Yi's interactions conversation pages with both sides
Champion Select
Pick
- "My blade is yours."
Ban
- "Doubt is the greatest enemy."
Movement
Moving
- "A true master is an eternal student."
- "Doubt is the greatest enemy."
- "The focused mind can pierce through stone."
- "Anger gives motivation without purpose."
- "I will show you the path."
- "Form before strength."
- "Let us begin."
- "Do not let your pride blind you."
- "In me, Wuju lives on."
First Encounter
First Encounter with Wukong
- "Quit monkeying around!"
- "Pupil, show me what you have learned."
Taunt
- "You wish to learn the hard way, I see."
- "I will take an eye! ...As if I don't have enough already."
- "Your skills are inferior!"
Joke
- "The goggles? Just for reading."
- "The key to immortality? Not dying."
- "Wuju... pass me that potion?"
Attack
Attacking
- "One cut, of many."
- "Blade and body."
- "This will be... a harsh lesson."
- "Never await victory."
- "Observe."
- "Defend yourself."
Ability Casting
Using Alpha Strike
- "Did you miss it?"
- "A master stroke!"
- "Many foes, one strike!"
Using Meditate
- "Mind and body."
- "Look inward."
- "Shh! I'm meditating."
Using Highlander
- "Watch, and learn."
- "So fast."
- "Speed of thought!"
- "Keep up!"
Skin voices
These skins record their own lines. Open one to read them.
PROJECT 90 lines
See this skin in 3D: PROJECT: Command Line Yi
Movement › First Move
- "Those who would harm us shall be corrected."
- "The air carries... a familiar scent."
- "Death has marked our enemies. Let us show them."
Movement › Moving
- "These... are not my thoughts!"
- "Order must be enforced."
- "I have held this sword... always."
- "Humanity has faltered."
- "I remember a warmth called... hope."
- "Something... beyond my vision."
- "There were others..."
- "This world is plagued."
- "The voice of a stranger... echoes in my mind."
- "Isolate the radicals."
- "Perfection can be achieved."
- "We are memories... deleted."
- "None are without guilt."
- "Some lives persist in error."
- "Have I died?"
- "Demons hide among us."
- "Memories... like shadows in the fog..."
- "We are blighted by detractors."
- "A spirit cannot be engineered."
- "The fog has lifted."
- "Truth is never lost."
- "We are not meant to grasp eternity."
- "A swordsman lives in the reflection of his blade."
- "Infinite possibilities lie before me."
- "Speed is the essence of all things."
- "What is a future that steals our pasts?"
- "This is my path."
- "We are more than our vessels."
First Encounter › First Encounter with PROJECT: Fiora
- "You are not prepared for this duel."
- "I will teach you the way of the sword."
First Encounter › First Encounter with PROJECT: Lucian
- "Guns? Let us see how steady your hands are."
- "You had best keep your distance, Lucian."
First Encounter › First Encounter with PROJECT: Yasuo Both sides
- "Technology has surpassed you."
- "Walls are no obstacle to me."
First Encounter › First Encounter with PROJECT: Zed Both sides
- "Shadows can only hide from the light."
- "Your friends are illusions, Zed."
First Encounter › First Encounter with Master Yi
- "Those goggles are absurd."
First Encounter › First Encounter with Wukong
- "Possible update required. I'm seeing giant monkeys."
Taunt
- "Which blade will mark your end?"
- "Moths should not carry torches."
- "Your heart will warm my blade."
Joke
- "I have known this blade my entire-- whoa, where did that come from?"
- "Progress requires only a blade... that produces more blades..."
- "Use caution when faced with the hand of-- whoops, pumped the safety."
Attack › Attacking
- "You may attempt to defend yourself."
- "Tomorrow is no longer your concern."
- "Take comfort in a clean death."
- "They will... comply."
- "A darkness lurks within me."
- "Do not trust corrupted memories."
- "Fear will not save you."
- "I must move faster."
- "Mercy is stilling a chaotic mind."
- "Weakness is... human."
- "My eyes are clouded."
- "Submit or die; choice is your right."
- "I see the edge of living."
- "My mind... is free."
- "This will be... your final lesson."
- "Our fates converge."
- "My name... is Yi."
- "I am no one's pawn."
- "Face your demon."
Ability Casting › Using Alpha Strike
- "Observe!"
- "Eyes open!"
Ability Casting › Using Meditate
- "Reconstituting."
- "Defending."
- "Recharging."
- "Field active."
- "Infusing."
- "My spirit breathes."
- "Shh! I'm recalibrating."
Shopping › Buying Blade of the Ruined King
- "Their speed will work against them."
- "How many must pay for a king's loss?"
- "Success requires only persistence."
Shopping › Buying Infinity Edge
- "This will not return unbloodied."
- "This blade transcends its age."
- "Countless cries echo from this blade."
Shopping › Buying Last Whisper
- "Armor only defends against the imprecise."
- "Expose their weaknesses."
- "No person is without vulnerability."
Shopping › Buying Youmuu's Ghostblade
- "Choose your moment wisely."
- "Acceleration potential increased."
- "Momentum can shift in an instant."
Other Gameplay › Placing a Ward
- "Predict their movements."
- "Remote sensor activated."
Recall
- "I will return."
Inkshadow 142 lines
See this skin in 3D: Inkshadow Master Yi
Movement › First Move
- "I fight on borrowed time. Let's move."
- "Our enemies picked the wrong side. Their mistake."
- "You wish to join the Uprising? Prove yourself."
- "The ink stirs beneath my skin... A battle is coming."
- "For my city, for my family, for our freedom."
- "I am an Inkshadow Warrior, forever marked by my path."
Movement › Moving
- "Wisdom is more than skin-deep."
- "My future for my ink. That was the deal."
- "We must fight as one."
- "The struggle for freedom is never over."
- "Together, we survive."
- "The Uprising is small, but we are mighty."
- "My contract is a sacrifice inked on my skin."
- "Battles are lessons. Learning is the hard part."
- "I will not know peace... I have accepted that."
- "Magic sings in our blood. The ink simply listens."
- "Watch. Learn. Then make that wisdom your own."
- "Ink and blood both stain the soul."
- "In me, their memory lives on."
- "Everyone's ink is unique, and 'unique' is powerful."
- "Resisting injustice is always just."
- "I wish I had more time."
- "Strike quickly, then fade into shadow."
- "They stole our magic once. Never again!"
- "It's too quiet out here. I miss the city's sounds."
- "I will leave my mark upon the world."
- "The temple is a haven, but it is not my home."
- "Ink unbound!"
- "Won't see me coming."
- "They will not stop me!"
- "Sink into shadow!"
- "Flow!"
Movement › Long Move
- "We all sacrificed something important to us... the price for our power."
- "A teacher's wisdom is earned with every scar, every mark."
- "If my pain lends me strength, may my strength prevent the pain of others."
- "The ink on my skin marks me as a rebel... as a threat."
- "They have no violence great enough to change who I am."
- "In Rabadon, you serve the Cabal or you die fighting."
- "I gave my lifespan. Others traded freedom, independence, their soul..."
- "Who you are is defined by what you do... when you break."
- "I was a student of my city. Now, I am a teacher... far from home."
- "My skin tells a story. My scars are chapters. My ink is my legend."
First Encounter › First Encounter with Inkshadow Aurelion Sol
- "Come to check in on your pawn, Aurelion Sol?"
First Encounter › First Encounter with Inkshadow Kai'Sa
- "Focus, Kai'Sa. When you call, your ink will answer."
First Encounter › First Encounter with Inkshadow Udyr
- "Udyr, I'm glad to see you! My tattoo could use a touch-up."
First Encounter › First Encounter with Inkshadow Volibear
- "The Volibear. I was warned about you."
First Encounter › First Encounter with Inkshadow Yasuo Both sides
- "I believe I have time for a sparring match, Yasuo. Draw your blade."
First Encounter › First Encounter with Inkshadow Yone
- "Do I know you, Man of Masks? You seem... so familiar..."
First Encounter › First Encounter with Inkshadow skin
- "The Uprising is coming. Have you picked your side?"
Taunt
- "Sometimes you must draw a line."
Taunt › Taunt Response
- "You welcome your own humiliation."
Joke
- "No, no, no, NO--! Augh..."
Joke › Joke Response
- "You really should 'ink' before you speak. Hehehe..."
Attack › Attacking
- "For the cause!"
- "Unwise."
- "You're in my way!"
- "What's your plan?"
- "Run or fight!"
- "You won't sway me."
- "To the last!"
- "Come!"
- "Where's your leader?"
- "The lesson begins!"
- "You have been marked!"
- "I won't stop."
Attack › Attacking › Attacking Rift Herald
- "Monsters come in all forms."
Attack › Attacking › Attacking the Dragon
- "You remind me of a spirit dragon I know."
Attack › Attacking › Attacking Baron Nashor
- "Even the mightiest may fall!"
Ability Casting › Using Meditate
- "Weave blood and ink."
- "Seal my wounds."
- "Center..."
- "A moment..."
Ability Casting › Using Wuju Style
- "Through steel and stone!"
- "All skill!"
Ability Casting › Using Highlander
- "Vengeance comes!"
- "Face your shadow!"
- "Keep up!"
Ability Casting › Using Highlander › Ranking for the first time
- "Let's teach them a lesson, shall we?"
Kills and Objectives › Killing a Champion
- "Still... it does not stop."
- "Wiped away!"
- "My condolences."
- "Did I get under your skin?"
- "The Uprising is here."
- "Someone must lose."
- "What have you learned?"
- "Do not forget failure."
- "You will be remembered."
- "Down with the Cabal!"
- "Foolish mistakes are a fine teacher."
- "Another stain upon the ground."
- "I cannot teach you common sense."
- "Cut by cut, our enemies fall!"
- "Blot it out!"
- "Cannon fodder!"
- "The battle is won, but the war rages on."
- "The Cabal won't mourn you."
- "Dragon take you."
- "We are more powerful than they think."
- "Die and learn!"
Kills and Objectives › Killing Inkshadow Aurelion Sol
- "My time is not up yet, Aurelion Sol."
Kills and Objectives › Killing Inkshadow Kai'Sa
- "Again! We will fix your mistakes together, Kai'Sa."
Kills and Objectives › Killing Inkshadow Udyr
- "Udyr, your work is so good that even you cannot beat it."
Kills and Objectives › Killing Inkshadow Volibear
- "Ugh, Volibear... The last thing I need is another spirit to deal with."
Kills and Objectives › Killing Inkshadow Yasuo Both sides
- "I win this time, Yasuo. I assume you want a rematch?"
Kills and Objectives › Killing Inkshadow Yone
- "Masked man, you are strangely... forgettable."
Kills and Objectives › Killing Inkshadow skin
- "It seems you picked the wrong side."
Kills and Objectives › Scoring First Blood
- "You fell so easily? I've only just begun."
Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Pentakill
- "With this ink, we write our own future!"
Kills and Objectives › Stealing the Dragon
- "That magic belongs to the people!"
Kills and Objectives › Stealing Baron Nashor
- "We got what we came here for. They didn't."
Kills and Objectives › Destroying a Turret
- "Painted black."
- "Watchtower down!"
- "Let's keep up the momentum."
- "No stronghold is safe."
Shopping › Opening the Shop
- "We could use these supplies. We have so little."
- "It's been a while since I could go shopping."
- "Are these from the city?"
Other Gameplay › Leveling Up
- "Practice makes skill. Skill makes power."
- "Experience yields many gifts."
- "Even teachers are students."
- "Greater power, greater burdens."
Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Assist Me'
- "Together!"
Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Danger'
- "Be mindful."
Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Enemy Missing'
- "Careful! They're missing."
Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'On The Way'
- "I'll be there!"
Recall
- "There's a time to advance, and a time to regroup."
- "We fight, we recover, and we fight again. The life of a warrior."
- "I return once more... Better than the alternative."
- "We chip away their ivory towers, one mission at a time."
- "I must remind myself that I am more than what I sacrificed."
- "We cannot afford to lose anyone to carelessness."
Death
- "My price... is paid..."
- "Even ink... bleeds..."
- "The Uprising... will not... die..."
Death › Respawn
- "One more thing to get revenge for."
- "They will never erase me."
- "I am unbreakable."
- "I cannot join my family yet."
- "Our enemies must try harder. They will try harder. Let them."
- "I will not be stopped so easily."
- "I have not run dry."
- "The Uprising will not be kept down."
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Every line here is quoted as the League of Legends Wiki transcribes it. Voice lines belong to Riot Games. Sound effects and the wiki's trivia notes are left out. Quote text is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, from the League of Legends Wiki's revision 4015195 (May 3, 2026).