How to win the jungle race as Warwick against Master Yi · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Warwick's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Master Yi.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Warwick Dominant | Eternal Hunger sustain means you win any fight where both sides arrive off full camps. Alpha Strike speeds their clear, but raw duels are losers, and before either of you has a second camp down that is not an answer. Take the level-1 crossing and make Master Yi path away from the camps you want. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Warwick Dominant | Blood Hunt (W) attack speed plus Q healing out-sustains every trade pattern. There is no version of this Master Yi wins right now — Wuju Style helps the clear more than the duel, and that folds on the second camp. Show on their side of the river and take the second buff and the tempo that comes with it. |
| Level 3 Route | Warwick Dominant | Primal Howl (E) damage reduction caps an early kit with no real counter-trade. Later in the game this bites, because Alpha Strike untargetability dodges your key spell and Wuju true damage wins long trades. But as the first scuttle timer lands none of it is online, so take the level-3 river fight and tax every camp Master Yi concedes. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Warwick Favoured — Take Duels | You hold the edge at 4-5, not a blowout. He is farming through 4-5 and will not contest anything until Highlander and a first item land, so meet them where the camps are, not where their laners are. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Yi's R | Highlander makes him un-kitable and every takedown resets the chase — Warwick 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 | BotRK / Stride Spike | Blade of the Ruined King or Stridebreaker turns your already-strong dueling into outright stat-check dominance, with percent-health shred and stick potential layered onto your healing. Your camp clear accelerates sharply, letting you full-clear and still arrive for every river fight. Force extended skirmishes around objectives where nobody on their team can out-trade you 1v1. 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 | You lose the long game outright: he is the strongest 1v1 in the game and hard CC is the only answer left, and no build path of yours answers that. Convert every early lead into an objective immediately. |
Start either buff with Q sustain — you need no leash and end the opening camps near full health. Note Master Yi's starting side from lane leashes; your level 3 is strong enough that you can path toward them rather than away if you spot their entry point. 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 Warwick's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Warwick 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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Warwick's race plan controls 5 of the 7 windows — Warwick holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Warwick's race plan controls 5 of the 7 windows, so Master Yi is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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