Kindred vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Kindred
based on 3,541 Kindred vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Master Yi
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Kindred in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some vital Kindred against Master Yi matchup stats that can help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Master Yi..
Kindred normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Master Yi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Kindred or Master Yi?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually loses when taking on Master Yi, with a 46.1% win rate. Therefore, Kindred makes a poor counter for Master Yi.
While Kindred does have a lower win rate than Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Kindred also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kindred into Master Yi.
Additionally, Kindred has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kindred is a bad counter to Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kindred to counter Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred often racks up a similar amount of CS as Master Yi. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kindred versus Master Yi build include Bloodthirster, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred used at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better when facing Master Yi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average win rate of 46.1% when countering Master Yi with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Master Yi as Kindred, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kindred vs Master Yi counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.1% winrate overall.
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