Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some influential Sivir vs. Master Yi counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Sivir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sivir may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Master Yi..
Sivir usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Master Yi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sivir usually loses when playing against Master Yi, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Sivir makes a bad counter to Master Yi.
While Sivir does have a lower win rate compared to Master Yi, when facing one another, Sivir also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Sivir into Master Yi.
Additionally, Sivir has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Sivir 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Sivir is a trash counter to Master Yi. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sivir against Master Yi.
To truly master Sivir in order to counter Master Yi during both the laning 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 tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sivir most often picks up much more CS relative to Master Yi. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Sivir versus Master Yi build consist of Duskblade of Draktharr, Muramana, and Edge of Night. When Sivir used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Master Yi than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sivir boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when countering Master Yi with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Master Yi as Sivir, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Sivir vs Master Yi counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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