Talk:Master Yi/@comment-67.164.109.190-20121119030030

"Assassin Yi"

What people expect from Yi due to playing low level games with him (Yes, even you 2000+ elo players. You have played and dunked with Yi in low level games) is that Yi should be able to size up to entire teams, go past mages that can instakill Yi, and more or less destroy 300+ armor brusiers, just because he was able to do so in your level 1-10 games. It just won't work. However, Yi CAN be used as a "solo-killer", or in teamfights, as a "squishy-killer".

Just run Cleanse (instead of your ever so favorite Ignite/Exhaust) as just ONE of your summoner spells, grab a Mercury's Treads, Wriggle's Lantern, Phantom Dancer, Phage, (and if you're rich enough) Quicksilver Sash, and go kill squishies.

He won't be able to size up to entire teams as you expect him to. He won't be able to survive bursts as you want him to, but he's nearly unstoppable, and there's no need to grab Last Whisper or Black Cleaver only if you aim for squishies. Stop playing him wrong and then bashing him. He's surely not "viable" in the sense that he needs to get Cleanse and an almost mandatory QSS and therefore waste a "valuable" item slot and summoner spell, but he's not all that bad.

Oh, and don't forget Alpha Strike. He's surprisingly durable and sticky in a team fight as long as you keep using Alpha Strike whenever it comes up.

Of course, it's just the lowly opinion of an anon, but there it is.