Jayce vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Jayce
based on 2,325 Jayce vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Master Yi
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Jayce in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some influential Jayce vs. Master Yi matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Master Yi..
Jayce typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Master Yi. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Jayce and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Jayce or Master Yi?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jayce usually loses when taking on Master Yi, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Jayce makes a poor counter for Master Yi.
While Jayce does have a lower winrate compared to Master Yi, when facing one another, Jayce also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Jayce into Master Yias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Jayce also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Jayce is a garbage counter for Master Yi. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Jayce against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jayce to counter Master Yi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce typically accumulates much more CS as Master Yi. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Jayce versus Master Yi build consist of Muramana, Maw of Malmortius, and Serylda's Grudge. When Jayce used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Master Yi than with most other common builds. In fact, Jayce had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing against Master Yi with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Master Yi as Jayce, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Jayce vs Master Yi fights, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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