Kassadin vs Master Yi — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Kassadin against Master Yi · 46.91% win rate over 194 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Master Yi is favoured — Master Yi owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Kassadin's 2. Play it patient and win your windows. Kassadin wins 46.91% of games vs Master Yi in top lane (194 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1KassadinYour Null Sphere silence edges the level-1 trade — it shuts down his answer.
Level 2Even / skillBy 2 it evens out as your weak pre-6 kit starts to show.
Level 3Master YiHis Wuju true damage crushes your level-3 lane.
Levels 4-5Master YiAt 4-5 he out-DPSes you hard — Riftwalk has not arrived to save you yet.
Level 6Master YiEven at 6, your early Riftwalk cannot out-trade his R steroids.
First itemMaster YiHis first-item spike lands well before your AP scaling does.
Two+ itemsKassadinLate, stacked Riftwalk lets you kite his Highlander and finally win the duel.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Take the level-1 trade — Null Sphere's silence beats his opener — then swallow your pride, because from 3 onward his Wuju true damage crushes your fragile pre-6 frame. Farm at max range, ward early, and treat every extended trade from 3 to 5 as a mistake you volunteered for.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Kassadin 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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