Kai'Sa vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Kai'Sa
based on 7,990 Kai'Sa vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Master Yi
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Kai'Sa vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several strategic Kai'Sa against Master Yi counter stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Master Yi..
Kai'Sa typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Master Yi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Master Yi?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Master Yi, with a 45.4% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Master Yi.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower win rate than Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kai'Sa into Master Yi.
Moreover, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter for Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Master Yi.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
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How We Calculated Our Kai'Sa vs Master Yi Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often gets much more CS as Master Yi. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Master Yi build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Stormsurge. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Master Yi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 45.4% when playing against Master Yi with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Master Yi as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Master Yi clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.4% win rate overall.
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