Day 1 Yuumi Midscope | Tips, Tricks, and Analysis 

Yuumi honestly deserves a place in the game. I do like this champion - I just want to see her put right. This is CLOSER to right I think, or at least I hope it is.

I'm going to stand behind the "AP Yuumi is dead" stance, but there's some BASED damage tech that came up that I couldn't have foreseen before the video released. I keep getting comments about Luden's dealing giga damage but I'm SURE the item proc alone is giving people a dopamine hit. Yuumi's ratios are objectively terrible, and I wasn't going to explore damage Yuumi too deeply when Moonstone Yuumi was so blatantly overpowered on the PBE. But damage Yuumi is a playstyle that people still enjoy, and I'm now convinced that MANDATE Yuumi is the best way to play it. Instead of investing 3200G on boatloads of AP and mana that you're not going to use, you're getting a cheaper, STRONGER item proc on a spell that naturally sets up the ADC to pop Mandate passive. Mandate -> Sorcs -> Ardent is statistically insane as a damage playstyle (and I'm a HUGE Ardent hater, so it's a big deal that I'd advocate for it). AP Yuumi is dead. But you're RIGHT - damage Yuumi is alive if we get creative. I would still personally lean towards Moonstone being stronger in comp, but the numbers absolutely argue for Mandate being the best in solo queue.

Played against full AP yuumi earlier today, with only ludens, she was getting ADC to half health in 2 Q’s.

If you're going to spend 3200G on AP items as a support, it has to be overwhelmingly more appealing than Shurelya's or Moonstone, and AP Yuumi only really empowers one ability. It was definitely worth it when Yuumi's Q dealt incredible % current HP damage and COULD NOT BE MISSED. On current Yuumi, sure Q has outstanding range and can really be a nuisance, until players learn to walk with their waves and refuse to play Yuumi's game. It's expensive, mistake-reliant, and should only get value on objective setups while disregarding the rest of Yuumi's insane kit. I think I was a bit too harsh in the video with calling it "dead" though - it's definitely casually viable, and it probably works just fine on release patch solo queue when people aren't used to dealing with Q yet. The H/S builds are just so obscenely broken next to a competent ADC that I saw no reason to explore AP more deeply than what I described.

Correct on Moonstone. 13.12 brought it back into a usable state for champions with extremely short heal/shield cooldowns (not Yuumi), or for champions relying ENTIRELY on a single moment of AoE healing/shielding in a specific game. Yuumi can get major R value, but it's niche against Shurelya's and Helia. My personal favourite way to play Yuumi after her own nerfs is to rush Mandate (yes, even after Mandate nerfs). Her util numbers are just not very high high right now so I find that opting into earlier damage gives me the means to contribute positively to the game before a 2-item spike. Since we're relying mainly on Mandate's passive to deal damage rather than its raw AP value, it's far stronger than the now-dead AP playstyle. As for Ardent - you're fine to keep building it. When this video released, Ardent had three major issues that kept it one of your worst options. It had a 3-wide build-patch (making completion as a support on 2nd/3rd item awkward), it offered no ability haste to the most haste-reliant class in the game, and its on-hit value was not high enough to overcome the general principle that providing defensive coverage to your marksman is more valuable than amping their already excellent damage. After 13.10, the buildpath was improved and Ardent's competitors lost their haste. There was even a short period on 13.10/13.11 when the on-hit value was ALSO broken, making it the best enchanter item in the game - so it really lost all of its major problems. It's a solid item nowadays and I will not complain if you build it. As long as you have a reason for your decisions, you're completely fine to build whatever you choose right now.

​@@Quinntik this was a really complete response, thank you so much!! i actually prefer mandate as my second item, I was keeping it third because I thought I was getting ahead of myself or something lmao

everfrost is rly good on yuumi, it was even picked in pro play a few times, but its not that good if ur solo queue cause whoever ur on might turn another direction and fuck up your everfrost

@@Swiftholic everfrost casting on yuumi is actually not affected my her adc to my knowledge, or at least it doesn’t lock her adc in location during cast and I’m PRETTY sure you can target the direction of everfrost

@@alltieo6398 it is. the everfrost cone moves with ur adc, but no it doesnt lock them down. but its more like.. lets say you have a caitlyn, and instead of having the same idea as you she E's out of a fight, and you everfrost, she messed it up. or if an ezreal teleports, or if a kalista autos. its really adc & game specific.

I don't think there's anything wrong with it in theory - the cone deals decent damage and I can imagine the CC getting some value - but I do think it's REALLY restricted. Relative to the enchanter items, much of the value is in its raw AP, and sure, Yuumi still DOES scale with AP, but the numbers are not high. Offensive value is limited by ADC positioning, and its defensive value is arguably redundant as your ultimate alone SHOULD on paper effectively peel your carry the same way (even if obviously a heal + slow is a different form of peel than a root). Again, it's really not a bad idea. But I personally think that if you're going down this route, Shurelya's is for you. At least in that case it's not redundant as there's also the potential for offensive value.