How to win the jungle race as Master Yi against Nunu & Willump · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Master Yi's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Nunu & Willump.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Master Yi Favoured | Alpha Strike speeds your clear, but raw duels are losers — farm, don't fight. Consume chunks monsters, not champions, so this is an edge and not a blowout — take the level-1 crossing only with the HP and cooldown lead. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Master Yi Favoured | Wuju Style helps the clear more than the duel; keep choosing camps over combat, but the snowball is gank pressure, not duel pressure. 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 | Master Yi Favoured | Meditate buys time but wins nothing — your game starts at level six, not three. Nunu & Willump can make it awkward — the Biggest Snowball Ever arrives as a knock-up gank, and Consume cheats every smite fight — 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 | Master Yi Dominant — Keep Fighting | You are the stronger side all through 4-5. Nunu & Willump knows it — he plays 4-5 entirely around snowball ganks and stealing camps out from under a clear — so shadow that side of the map and make them fight you anyway. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Highlander Domination | Highlander's slow immunity plus Alpha resets snowball any post-6 cleanup. A fog-channeled ult chunks everyone holding the pit at once, but in a straight post-6 duel that is not enough: you out-spike Nunu & Willump at this breakpoint, so play the aggressor while it lasts. |
| 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. Nunu & Willump's first item mostly buys durability and cooldowns, so his spike is objective control rather than damage. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Master Yi Favoured — Wins Late | From two items you out-scale Nunu & Willump. He is an objective thief and a channel to interrupt, not a duel to take, but none of that beats your full build in a straight fight. |
Start your clear at the Red Buff camp to maximize early health sustain and red buff true damage. Nunu & Willump clears fast with Consume and never drops below half health, so his early map presence is constant.
Ranked by the race windows in Master Yi's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Master Yi vs Nunu & Willump 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 Nunu & Willump is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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