Talk:Master Yi/@comment-124.83.37.93-20120728131201

As a Yi player, I disagree that he is neither trash nor OP. He just needs more awareness and proper positioning to play against decent opponents.

In my experience he's better off as a jungler. He doesn't have any kind of lane presence aside from spamming your Q. Downside is that he's ganks are "meh" compared to others e.g Lee sin, J4. He's heavily reliant on red to catch up to opponents. Blue is fine for him as his Q can easily kill creeps to push a lane in order to destroy towers. You could also give it your mid if he needs it.

Players should change their builds rather than the standard BF items and PD. My build goes something like

cloth/pots5 > wriggles > shoes > avarice > Berserker greaves > Youmu > Phage >...

From here choice can be either frozen mallet or Trinity force. Either is fine but I prefer Trinity. If you're going for trinity it's better to delay it as a 5th or Last item. Frozen mallet removes your reliance on the red buff and also gives you some decent HP. Succeeding items depends on enemy composition. My build is focused against both AD and AP while still maintaning DPS potential.

So Final Build will be > Berserker Shoes (can be swapped with Mercury if you need the MR and tenacity), Trinity, Warmogs, Atmas, FoN, Last item ranges from Quicksilver sash to remove those suppressing ulti's e.g. WW and Malza and spells like Vlad and Mord's ulti, to Bloodthirster or IE  to further increase your DPS potential.

This Build provides HP,Armor,MR, DMG, and mvspd which is great for him. You'll see in-game that with this set-up you're able to bypass tanks and straight to their carries w/o worrying on dying do fast. It worked wonders for me as I rarely lose with my Yi against decent opponents with this build-up.

Skill Tips (As almost most of the player know anyways but whatever):

Alpha Strike - Use it to dodge AOE and Skill shots. Timing it right will let you dodge spells due to it's invincibility frame.

Meditate - Migitate dmg when your about to be hit by a hard hitting spell.