How to win the jungle race as Master Yi against Amumu · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Master Yi's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Amumu.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Master Yi Favoured | Alpha Strike speeds your clear, but raw duels are losers — farm, don't fight. The margin is thin: Despair tank stats clear fine, but champion duels are losers, and one slow camp on your side hands the window straight back, so keep the trade short. Sidestep the bandage line — without the stun connecting he has no kill threat. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Master Yi Favoured | Wuju Style helps the clear more than the duel; keep choosing camps over combat. Bandage Toss is their gank tool, not a duel-winner, so this is an edge and not a blowout — take the level-2 skirmish only with the HP and cooldown lead. |
| Level 3 Route | Master Yi Favoured | Meditate buys time but wins nothing — your game starts at level six, not three, but Despair tank stats clear fine, but champion duels are losers. 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 | Master Yi Favoured — Take Duels | Through levels 4-5 you remain the stronger duelist — keep taking short, decisive trades vs Amumu, but only with the HP and cooldown lead. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Highlander Favoured | Highlander's slow immunity plus Alpha resets snowball any post-6 cleanup. A Bandage Toss into the AoE Curse locks you down for the full follow-up — respect that one window, but the six-spike comparison favors you: take the post-6 duel whenever HP bars start even. |
| First Item Spike | Kraken Slayer Spike | Completing your core item triggers a massive physical damage, attack speed, and on-hit multiplier that completely overpowers traditional brawlers or isolated targets. Amumu's first completed item makes Despair and Tantrum clear at real speed and turns his engage into a genuine team-fight threat. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Master Yi Favoured — Wins Late | Amumu falls off relative to you — from two items on you win the raw stat check, even though he is a Curse-and-run engager whose value is the ultimate, not the duel. Drag the game long and force the 1v1s. |
Start your clear at the Red Buff camp to maximize early health sustain and red buff true damage. Amumu opens on a buff and clears steadily off Despair and Tantrum, so he is rarely far from his own camps before three.
Ranked by the race windows in Master Yi's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Master Yi vs Amumu 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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Master Yi's race plan controls 7 of the 7 windows — Master Yi holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Master Yi's race plan controls 7 of the 7 windows, so Amumu is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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