How to win the jungle race as Locke against Master Yi · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Locke's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Master Yi.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Locke Favoured | Q nail volleys clear camps at range while banking marks for the first scuttle fight. Alpha Strike speeds their clear, but raw duels are losers, so this is an edge and not a blowout — take the level-1 crossing only with the HP and cooldown lead. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Locke Favoured | The blink-auto mark consume chunks hard, but spending E in a duel spends the escape too, but Wuju Style helps the clear more than the duel. You still win the straight exchange on the second camp; keep it short, keep it decisive, and keep the scuttle line yours. |
| Level 3 Route | Locke Favoured | W's grey-health refund makes his short trades cheaper than they look — full clears cost him real HP. Master Yi can make it awkward — Alpha Strike untargetability dodges your key spell and Wuju true damage wins long trades — but not as the first scuttle timer lands. Trade, then walk away with the first scuttle and the gank window behind it. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Even — Farm & Track | Levels 4-5 are a farm-and-track window vs Master Yi — bank camps, keep river vision, and hold the fight for your level-6 totem instead of coin-flipping. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Yi's R | Highlander makes him un-kitable and every takedown resets the chase — Locke loses the straight post-6 duel. Hard CC is the only answer — chain stuns or do not take the post-6 fight, and shift your pressure to the side of the map Highlander is not on. |
| First Item Spike | Lich Bane | Lich Bane turns every blink-consume into a Spellblade chunk on top of your Silver Stake missing-health scaling. This is your strongest duel window of the game — cash it on a pick, not a coin-flip. 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 | The clock is your enemy. He is the strongest 1v1 in the game and hard CC is the only answer left, so close the game on the first two objectives you actually win. |
Start Red with a leash and Q the camp from max nail range — W’s grey-health refund keeps the clear honest, but full clears cost real HP, so path toward a healthy scuttle, not a fight. 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 Locke's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Locke 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 — Locke holds 3 windows, Master Yi 2, the rest are even.
Yes — Locke 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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