How to win lane as Illaoi against Master Yi · 44.44% win rate over 171 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Illaoi | Level 1 is Illaoi — tentacle slams out-trade his weak early autos hard. |
| Level 2 | Illaoi | Level 2 stays yours: the slam plus Test of Spirit controls the lane completely. |
| Level 3 | Illaoi | Level 3 is yours — a landed spirit test multiplies your damage onto his Alpha Strike commits. |
| Levels 4-5 | Illaoi | Levels 4-5 stay Illaoi — the tentacle field out-damages anything he attempts. |
| Level 6 | Illaoi | Level 6 is yours — Leap of Faith walls him in tentacles and can straight-up kill his dive. |
| First item | Illaoi | First item stays Illaoi: your zone and E pull keep him behind — keep denying. |
| Two+ items | Master Yi | 2+ items goes to Master Yi — full crit plus Highlander finally out-scales the tentacle field, so group before it arrives. |
Six straight stages are yours, starting immediately: tentacle slams crush his level-1 autos, Test of Spirit turns his soul into a second health bar to beat on, and any Alpha Strike into your field just multiplies your damage. Starve him of every CS — his entire game plan is surviving to items, so make the lane a famine he cannot farm through.
The full Illaoi vs Master Yi report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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