How to win the jungle race as Lillia against Master Yi · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Lillia's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Master Yi.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Even Skirmish | Even at the first buff: the Blooming Blows true-damage edge clears fast — kite, don't brawl, and before either of you has a second camp down neither of you can force it. Hold your main ability until Alpha ends, and force fights before his items arrive, and contest your opening camps only with the health lead. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Even Skirmish | Dead-even on the second camp: Watch Out! Eep! center-hits plus passive speed kite melee kits apart, while Alpha Strike untargetability dodges your key spell and Wuju true damage wins long trades. Whoever arrives with more HP and cooldowns wins — track their clear and choose the moment, not the coin-flip. |
| Level 3 Route | Lillia Favoured | Dream-dust uptime plus W nukes out-pace anything without a dash, but Meditate buys time but wins nothing. You still win the straight exchange at the opening scuttle; keep it short, keep it decisive, and keep the scuttle line yours. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Even — Farm & Track | Even through 4-5. He is farming through 4-5 and will not contest anything until Highlander and a first item land, so mirror it: farm the same tempo, ward the same crossings, and take the fight only with numbers. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Yi's R | The six-spike belongs to Master Yi, and Lillia's does not bridge the gap: Highlander makes him un-kitable and every takedown resets the chase. Hard CC is the only answer — chain stuns or do not take the post-6 fight. Your own ultimate is a tool here, not a trump card — spend it to escape or equalize, not to start fights. |
| First Item Spike | Liandry's Spike | Liandry's turns your dust and burn into real damage, and your kite-duel into a genuine threat even against bruisers. Your clear becomes self-sustaining health-wise and absurd tempo-wise. Force Master Yi to contest you at camps where your orbit has room, and melt them when they try. Master Yi's first item is the start of the curve rather than a spike — his real jump is the second and third. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Danger — Master Yi Outscales | You lose the long game outright: he is the strongest 1v1 in the game and hard CC is the only answer left, and no build path of yours answers that. Convert every early lead into an objective immediately. |
Start the buff that lets you chain into raptors early — your AoE Q wants the chaos camps. Master Yi's start side matters little; your clear wins the race regardless, so path for your own efficiency. Master Yi clears very fast with Alpha Strike and Wuju Style, and he will be a level ahead if nobody interrupts him.
Ranked by the race windows in Lillia's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Lillia vs Master Yi report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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No clear favourite — Lillia holds 2 windows, Master Yi 2, the rest are even.
Yes — Lillia vs Master Yi plays as a skill matchup: the jungle race swings window to window, and the better first clear usually sets the tone.
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