How to win the jungle race as Master Yi against Ivern · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Master Yi's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Ivern.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Master Yi Favoured | Alpha Strike speeds your clear, but raw duels are losers — farm, don't fight. Ivern can make it awkward — he won't fight you — but a Triggerseed root into his laner's follow-up will — but not before either of you has a second camp down. Trade, then walk away with a camp and a chunk of their health bar. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Master Yi Favoured | Wuju Style helps the clear more than the duel; keep choosing camps over combat. The margin is thin: Brushmaker poke from their own brush is their only legal trade, and one slow camp on your side hands the window straight back, so keep the trade short. Steal the camps he's marked at half-clear and there is nothing he can do about it. |
| Level 3 Route | Master Yi Favoured | Meditate buys time but wins nothing — your game starts at level six, not three. Triggerseed's root protects their escape, so this is an edge and not a blowout — take the level-3 river fight only with the HP and cooldown lead. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Master Yi Dominant — Keep Fighting | Nothing about 4-5 helps Ivern here: he spends 4-5 marking camps for a laner and setting Brushmaker vision rather than fighting, while you can take any duel you can reach. Invade on the clear-timer, not on a whim. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Highlander Domination | Highlander's slow immunity plus Alpha resets snowball any post-6 cleanup. Ivern has one answer of their own — Daisy's knock-ups plus triggered roots make diving him expensive — and it is not enough here. Make them spend Daisy! defensively, then collapse on the pit. |
| 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. Ivern's first item mostly buys shield strength and cooldowns — his spike is what his carry does, not what he does. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Master Yi Favoured — Wins Late | The late game is yours. Remember what Ivern still is at full build — he is a shield-and-root support, with Daisy as the only real body he brings — and take the fights that do not let it matter. |
Start your clear at the Red Buff camp to maximize early health sustain and red buff true damage. Ivern clears without fighting at all — Friend of the Forest frees camps on a timer, so his level and gold are always on schedule.
Ranked by the race windows in Master Yi's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Master Yi vs Ivern 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 Ivern is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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