Master Yi

We’re excited to see that the new items have been adding some fresh gameplay on the Rift, but their power needs to stay in check. Master Yi’s unusually strong synergy with Guinsoo’s Rageblade left too little counterplay, so we increased Alpha Strike’s downtime and adjusted its overall damage to keep his scaling intact while making him easier to deal with.

We’re further optimizing Meditate so you can sustain damage reduction even if its channeling is interrupted. This will give Master Yi more opportunities to show off his swordsmanship in team fights.

Our favorite Blademaster has been Alpha Striking into tricky situations and then getting stuck. These changes will make sure he can get in and get out!

When it comes to team fights Master Yi has been more of an apprentice. These changes will make sure he’s impactful as the team is prepping for objectives!

Master Yi hasn’t been performing well in higher levels of play. We’re improving his jungle clear speed and giving him room to use his abilities to dodge damage from foes more often in teamfights.

Wuju like to show off your skill more with Master Yi? If so, we're here to help. We’ve seen Master Yi struggling to keep up with other junglers in higher levels of play. To give Yi players some more room for skill expression, we’re reducing the passive Attack Damage that he gains from his Wuju Style ability, but increasing the true damage he gains from activation Wuju Style at the right moment.

After recent nerfs, Master Yi has been clearing jungle camps more slowly than we’d like to see. To address this, we’re amping up the bonus damage to monsters that the Wuju Bladesman deals with his Alpha Strike.

Despite our recent nerfs, Master Yi is still dominating the jungle. To tone down his ability to blaze through jungle camps and quickly burst down his foes during duels, we’re slashing some of the Attack Damage his Alpha Strike grants.

We know that Master Yi has been terrorizing the rift and been perma-ban status for a lot of players since our update to his Alpha Strike. It’s allowed him to clear the jungle at turbo speed, so we’re reducing the bonus damage he deals to monsters so this Wuju Bladesman isn’t the undisputed clear speed king.

We’re looking for ways to improve satisfaction and mastery for Master Yi, and our plan here is to increase some of the interesting optimizations around Alpha Strike and raise satisfaction without causing this Wuji Bladesman to be overly dominant.

Master Yi has been overperforming with his recent buffs and his synergy with new items (like Navori Quickblades) is too strong. We’re pulling back on some of the power he gained from Patch 2.4a to ensure the Wuju Blademaster fights fairly.

Master Yi has been struggling to keep his footing in the jungle, so we're giving him a handful of buffs that will allow him to participate in skirmishes more frequently and scale into the late game more effectively.

(3) WUJU STYLE - Active true damage vs structures: 100% → 33%

Master Yi added to Wild Rift

Yi truly mastered the power of Wuju and was an unstoppable tank-melting, split-pushing terror, so we took a chunk out of his attack damage per level, as well as the damage gained via (3) Wuju Style.