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[Skyrunner]

M. Yi is melee, making him not an adc. Or tbe, he's not the usual adc you put in bot lanes, ranged carry.
He's usually played as jungler or mid. Fragile with tons of damage but nothing else, though he has some sustain.

[webadict]

Yeah, Master Yi is a melee carry. He excels at duels and pushing, making him an okay top and mid laner, but his fragility without his meditate compared to Tryndamere means he's seen less.

As a jungler, his gap closing is great, and with red buff, his ganks are fairly decent.

Overall, you can build him as either glass cannon, if you can survive long enough to kill or you can clean up after a fight. Otherwise, building him as a tanky dps should work, as is typically a better case.

[webadict]

Though, if you're going tanky DPS, there's a few better choices.

[sebcool]

If you're a new player, or find yourself losing a lot, I'd recommend reading a few champion guides on mobafire or some other site. It really helps you get a better look at the builds and tactics of your champ.

There are also a few general guides on playing, and handling a bad team/not being one. They've helped quite a lot in playing and also give a lot of anger-management tips.

[xaritscin]

if you're new just play the recomended champions, garen or ashe for example, and look at the other cheap champs at the start of the game, play some games, familiarize with the difficulty, if you dont feel prepared to play against other players, play co-op against the AI. dont look too much at guides if you dont understand the thing, but use the recommended fits in each map, once you get experience with your champ or with the game you should look at guides, but dont try to go the cookie cutter way.....the ideal would be to play with whatever fit suits you. not just the flavor of the current meta......

[Sharp]

So, Runic Shield mastery, why does anyone take it? 50hp shield which only can be refreshed after you respawn after dying. I don't know why Riot put it but even more surprising is seeing people take it.

Does anyone here take it? And if so why? I would rate it as the worst mastery possible and it's a rank 16 one. It could be different if it was the last 50hp of your health so gets taken last, it could be different if it refreshed on recalling but it doesn't. I really can't understand why anyone would take it.

[frostshotgg]

Level 1 fights, mostly.

[Seriyu]

if you're new just play the recomended champions, garen or ashe for example, and look at the other cheap champs at the start of the game, play some games, familiarize with the difficulty, if you dont feel prepared to play against other players, play co-op against the AI. dont look too much at guides if you dont understand the thing, but use the recommended fits in each map, once you get experience with your champ or with the game you should look at guides, but dont try to go the cookie cutter way.....the ideal would be to play with whatever fit suits you. not just the flavor of the current meta......

Yeah, that's actually how I came across master yi, he's apparently 450 IP now. I feel like he was more expensive before?

And glass cannon or tanky DPS, check. Been building glass cannon-ey, so I'll probably keep that up.

[MoLAoS]

So, Runic Shield mastery, why does anyone take it? 50hp shield which only can be refreshed after you respawn after dying. I don't know why Riot put it but even more surprising is seeing people take it.

Does anyone here take it? And if so why? I would rate it as the worst mastery possible and it's a rank 16 one. It could be different if it was the last 50hp of your health so gets taken last, it could be different if it refreshed on recalling but it doesn't. I really can't understand why anyone would take it.

Put that shit on malphite, try to start a level one bush fight bot.

[baruk]

So, Runic Shield mastery, why does anyone take it? 50hp shield which only can be refreshed after you respawn after dying. I don't know why Riot put it but even more surprising is seeing people take it.

Does anyone here take it? And if so why? I would rate it as the worst mastery possible and it's a rank 16 one. It could be different if it was the last 50hp of your health so gets taken last, it could be different if it refreshed on recalling but it doesn't. I really can't understand why anyone would take it.

I take runic shield on my tanky support  "I really don't want to give away first blood" page. You can't expect a lot for a single mastery point.

[Sharp]

I dunno, I think literally any other mastery has something better to offer even for lvl 1 fights. If your building deep in the defensive tree you have the 2nd wind mastery or the armour based on number of enemy champs, if you have 0/30/0 then you can change it to 0/29/1 and put that point in movement speed or quicker recall in utility. I would value that much more then a 50hp shield which I only get back if I die.

[Sharp]

It's a big gamble. 50hp shield is like one auto-attack and once it's gone it's gone until you die and it doesn't scale so it's pretty shit once your hit level 3 and is pretty much a wasted point. Armour and mag res per nearby enemy champ will keep working throughout. The Second Wind mastery can be huge when at low health for extra survivability as well which could be much better for lvl 1 fights, especially with champs like WW or Nasus.

Still nice to know why people take it, even though personally I think it's stupid

[frostshotgg]

You really can't expect that much out of a 1 point mastery. It's there for people who want to yolo that level 1 fight. You have other options if you don't.

[webadict]

It's fairly good when stacked with defensive traits. And a jungler might like it for some early help with buffs.

Also, holy crap, Spectral Wraith is amazing for jungling.

[penguinofhonor]

If a 40 HP nerf is enough to cause all that bitching about how squishy Sona was, a 50 HP shield should be the best mastery point in the game.

Also the shield does scale with armor/MR.