How to win the jungle race as Nunu & Willump against Master Yi · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Nunu & Willump's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Master Yi.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Respect Master Yi | Alpha Strike untargetability dodges your key spell and Wuju true damage wins long trades — Nunu & Willump has no answer to that at level 1. Hold your main ability until Alpha ends, and force fights before his items arrive, and answer their pressure cross-map instead of contesting it head-on. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Respect Master Yi | The window on the second camp is theirs: Alpha Strike untargetability dodges your key spell and Wuju true damage wins long trades. Hold your main ability until Alpha ends, and force fights before his items arrive. Refuse the level-2 skirmish and give up the second buff rather than the kill. |
| Level 3 Route | Respect Master Yi | At level 3 this window belongs to Master Yi, not Nunu & Willump: Alpha Strike untargetability dodges your key spell and Wuju true damage wins long trades. Hold your main ability until Alpha ends, and force fights before his items arrive. Give up the level-3 river fight and bank tempo on the opposite side of the map. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Danger — Avoid Master Yi | Master Yi owns 4-5 outright. He is farming through 4-5 and will not contest anything until Highlander and a first item land, so treat every crossing as theirs and take the camps they are furthest from. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Danger — Yi's R | Highlander makes him un-kitable and every takedown resets the chase. At this breakpoint Nunu & Willump simply does not duel Master Yi — hard CC is the only answer — chain stuns or do not take the post-6 fight, trade objectives cross-map, and let item spikes re-open the matchup. |
| First Item Spike | Liandry's Spike | Completing Liandry's Torment puts a max-health burn on every Consume (Q), Biggest Snowball Ever! (W) and Snowball Barrage (E) hit, so camps and waves melt and brawlers who try to out-sustain you lose a chunk of health every trade. 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 your clear at the Red or Blue Buff camp utilizing your Consume true damage to maximize early clear speed without needing a heavy leash. 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 Nunu & Willump's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Nunu & Willump 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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Master Yi pressures 6 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Master Yi pressures 6 of the 7 windows, so Nunu & Willump is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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