Yuumi Build Guide : [Season 14] Yuumi The Magical Cat Guide ᓚᘏᗢ

Introduction

Hello! Welcome to the Yuumi Guide for Season 14

My name is Pastel and I'm a main. I look forward to teaching you how to play the champion, ! <3

In this guide I'll be going over everything you need to know about The Magical Cat!

- Table Of Contents -

CHAMPION INFO

★ Abilities
★ Skill Sequence
★ Pros and Cons

PRE-GAME

★ Summoner Spells
★ Runes
★ Items

GAMEPLAY

★ Early Game
★ Mid Game
★ Late Game

Abilities

YUUMI ABILITIES

FELINE FRIENDSHIP - PASSIVE

INNATE: Periodically, 's next basic attack or ability hit against an Enemy Champion will heal based off of her level and a percent of her ability power. If using a basic attack, it will be enhanced with bonus range and becomes an uncancelable windup. While using on an allied Champion within 4 seconds, or if is already attached to a current friend, the healing will also apply to them.

NNATE: While is attached to a current friend, grants them permanent Friendship stacks whenever they kill enemy champions or minions. The ally with the highest Friendship stacks becomes 's Best Friend, which empowers her abilities with additional effects while she is attached to them as her current friend.

TIP:

Prioritize using when is available, to ensure that you are healing your current friend whenever possible. Additionally, prioritize attaching to the ally that you want to be your Best Friend as soon as possible to ensure that is Best Friends with the most optimal ally.

PROWLING PROJECTILE - Q

ACTIVE: fires an errant missile in the target direction that deals magic damage. If the target is a Enemy Champion, the missile also reveals and s the first Enemy Champion hit. If is attached, she can steer the missile until a duration, at which the missile accelerates in its current direction to deal increased damage and apply a stronger , that quickly decays to the original amount over a few seconds.

and her current friend that is attached to using can see the effective range of while it is being used in flight.

PASSIVE: When is attached to her Best Friend, always applies it's enhanced against Enemy Champions. Additionally, when hits an Enemy Champion, grants her Best Friend bonus magic damage on-hit for a duration. The bonus magic damage amount is increased by a percent of her Best Friend's critical strike chance.

TIP:

You can use on a different ally while using to extend the range of this ability, as you can continue using it while using on other friends.

YOU AND ME! - W

ACTIVE: channels for a very small amount of time, then dashes to the target allied champion upon completion and attaches to them upon arrival. While attached, is untargetable (except from turrets and in-flight projectiles targeting her) and casts her spells from the current friend's position. The cooldown starts upon completing the channel. can be recast after a very small amount of time after attachment. will be knocked down by any immobilizing crowd control during the dash, additionally, the cooldown of this ability will be set on a small cooldown and cannot use during this time.

RECAST: can switch her current friend, refreshing the recast. She will detach automatically if her current friend dies or under certain circumstances , etc. If recast without a valid target or on the ground, will detach from her current friend and dash a small distance in the target direction, putting the ability on cooldown. Regardless of cooldown, cannot be cast again for a very small amount of time after using it.

PASSIVE: When is attached to her Best Friend, and the ally both gain helpful bonuses. gains bonus Heal and Shield Power, and her Best Friend gains healing on-hit, both bonuses amount scales with 's ability rank.
Additionally, starts with a point in and Prowling Projectile instead has 6 ranks of which you can put points into the ability whenever gains a champion level.

Many Champion abilities can be affect during under certain circumstances such as when has been detached from recently, and a Champion ability has been used on her during the animation, or when was not active on an allied champion at the time of the ability cast.
Abilities that can be used at this time include: in-flight projectiles & targeted ability/spell casts, tethers, delayed abilities, burn damage, and others.

TIP:

can be cancelled by most hard crowd control abilities, so only use it if you are sure that will not be at risk of having cancelled. will die most of the time if this gets cancelled during combat with Enemy Champions.
Also do not be afraid to ping your ally that you want to attach to a few times until they let you. :( TAKE THE CAT!

ZOOMIES - E

ACTIVE: grants herself a shield and gains bonus movement speed and bonus attack speed while the shield holds. While attached, 's current friend is affected by instead.

TIP:

Prioritize using when an Enemy Champion uses a damaging spell that is likely to hit or her current friend. attack and movement speed is very useful, so using the ability just to buff your current friend is great too.

FINAL CHAPTER - R (Ultimate)

ACTIVE: and Book channel for a few seconds, launching 5 waves in the target direction over the duration. can steer the direction of the waves if was initially casted while attached to a current friend. Detaching from a current friend causes to lose the ability to steer 's direction for the duration.

's waves have different effects for Allied and Enemy Champions when hit. Allied Champions are healed, until they meet the condition in which they are beyond maximum health. If the condition is met, the healing will be converted into a shield that lasts for a duration. Enemy Champions take magic damage from each indiviidual wave, the first dealing full damage and subsequent dealing reduced damage, and are ed for a small amount of time per wave, additionally the amount stacks and refreshes duration on subsequent hits.

TIP:

Prioritize using when 's allies and her current friend are on lower health, to provide as much healing and utility as possible.

Skill Sequence

#1.

Shield, movement speed, and attack speed bonus.
#2.

Damage, slow, and ally on-hit bonus.
#3.

Bonus Heal and Shield Power and ally on-hit healing.
#4.

Healing, shielding, magic damage, and slow.

> > >

This is the most consistent and optimal leveling order for . It provides a good balance of damage and utility with her spells.

Putting 3 leveling points into and then proceeding to max is a possible variation of this leveling order because it gives more damage in the early laning phase of the game.

#1.

Shield, movement speed, and attack speed bonus.
#2.

Bonus Heal and Shield Power and ally on-hit healing.
#3.

Damage, slow, and ally on-hit bonus.
#4.

Healing, shielding, magic damage, and slow.

> > >

I like this leveling order because it gives you the most Healing and Shielding power, along with buffing. But it is not that great if your Allied bottom lane Champion or player is not very good. I recommend this leveling order only if you are in a duo with someone you trust.

In certain situations and matchups, is not as useful to max second as because maxing second provides with more Heal and Shield Power, and additionally gives her ally more bonus healing on-hit.
This leveling order is the best if you have a hypercarry like , , , or if an Allied Champion that has a good synergy with has amassed a lot of kills, gold, and experience.

Pros and Cons

PROS

+ Great teamfighter.
+ Amazing mid-late game scaling.
+ Good healing + shielding.
+ Easy to pick up and start playing.
+ Fun to play.
+ She's a cat and is really cute + has good skins!

CONS

- Squishy
- Bad lane pressure.
- Ally dependant.
- Cannot roam alone.
- High ban rate on most patches.
- Bad against high crowd control team compositions.

Summoner Spells

SUMMONER SPELLS

HEAL: Scales with Heal and Shield power meaning this summoner spell is best taken with Heal and Shield Power items such as , , , and .
When uses , s herself and the Allied Champion nearest to 's cursor (prioritizes the most wounded allied champion if no allied champions are near the cursor) for an amount based on her level, while also granting both Champions including herself for a very small duration.
Champions affected by subsequent uses restore less health with the subsequent casts. Because of this, avoid using two summoner spells in bottom lane.

IGNITE: Ignite is an aggressive summoner spell for and is paired well with an aggressive bottom lane parter to ensure maximum kill threat.
When uses , she sets the target enemy champion on fire for a few seconds revealing them and dealing True Damage over the duration, with the first tick of damage occurring on-cast and subsequent ticks occurring every second after until the duration is over. The target is also inflicted with Grievous Wounds for the same duration. is not a good item to pair with , as it applies Grievous Wounds, which does not stack.

EXHAUST: is a defensive and offensive summoner spell for and can be paired with any of the summoner spells above.
When uses , she weakens the target enemy champion, ing them and reducing their damage dealt for a few seconds.

Why not bring Flash?

does not need believe it or not. She is completely safe as long as she is with her ally or allies, thanks to has good mobility, especially with . only loses her mobility whenever she is alone, but she should never be alone anyway because of how her kit is centered around and relies on it heavily because gives all of 's abilities bonus properties. Also cannot use while using so it makes it signifigantly worse. Thats why is not good or neccessary on .

Runes

FIRST TREE RUNES

is the best primary rune tree for it suits her playstyle and build paths very well.

SUMMON AERY

is the best keystone on and it suits her kit perfectly. can be utilized in 2 different ways, damage and shielding, both of which can utilize. Using 's , and her Basic Attacks apply Rune damage. Using 's , and , can give a Shield to her allies and friends. No other keystone gives as many benefits as , as well as providing the Sorcery tree which is the best primary Rune Tree for .

MANAFLOW BAND

is great for 's poking abilities in lane by giving her more to use for her and . allows to gain up to a cap by using her damaging spells and abilities including and . After is fully stacked, every few seconds regenerate a percent of her missing .

TRANSCENDENCE

Is one of the best runes in the game for as it synergises well with her playstyle as a caster with relatively long cooldowns without any reduction. gives Ability Haste and Cooldown Reduction at certain Champion levels.
At level 5 gains 5 Ability Haste.
At level 8 gains another 5 Ability Haste.
At level 11 's remaining spell cooldowns are reduced by 20% whenever gains a Champion Takedown. (Kill or Assist)

GATHERING STORM

is great on most scaling champions, included. utilizes 's additional Ability Power that is granted over the course of the game very well because 's abilities (, , and ) scale with Ability Power. Generally, does not have as much of a threatening lane as some other champions like , , or so is going to be a better option for than in most games. Regardless of matchup, is a stronger rune than as the game goes on.

SECONDARY RUNE TREE OPTIONS

is one of the options you can go for secondary rune tree's as .

FONT OF LIFE

is a good rune for because it allows her to heal her allies even more.
Whenever applies a or immobilizing effect to an Enemy Champion, she will Heal herself and the nearest and most wounded Allied Champion based on level. This allows to give even more utility and sustain to her allies in combat.

REVITALIZE

is a great rune for as it increases all of her healing and shielding. Revitalize grants Heal and Shield Power. Outgoing healing and outgoing shielding casted by or applied to are increased by a percent if the target is below a health threshold. In general this is one of the best runes ever for as it grants her tons more healing and shielding for her team!

is one of the options you can go for secondary rune tree's as .

PRESENCE OF MIND

is a great rune for late game teamfighting as because it allows you to have amazing sustain to be able to keep casting spells and abilities throughout the fight. When scores a Takedown against an Enemy Champion, she restores a percent of her maximum after a short delay. Also, damaging an enemy champion increases 's regeneration based on level for a few seconds during combat. This increased mana regeneration stat bonus also increases the bonus Heal and Shield Power bonus that gives. Generally, is a good rune for for regeneration and sustain, and is especially good before gets her regeneration items.

LEGEND: HASTE

is a decent rune on as it gives her bonus . This helps to cast her spells more frequently, and is great in combination with .

is one of the options you can go for secondary rune tree's as .

BISCUIT DELIVERY

is a early laning rune that helps a lot with sustain and health sustain. Will receive a at different time intervals throughout the early game. This rune is especially effective in the early laning phase into the game. Consuming a restores 's and Health, based off of the amount that she is missing of each stat. Additionally, permanently increases her maximum . will also gain the increased mana if you sell the . Each grants a small amount of Gold when sold to the shop keeper.

This Rune isn't all that great on in most situations, in comparison to the previous runes mentioned. However, does provide a lot of early game sustain, which can make the difference of an easier laning phase against strong poke Champions.

COSMIC INSIGHT

grants summoner spell haste and item haste. These are amazing stats for because she uses a lot of items that have cooldowns such as , , , , etc. also does not bring meaning that has the freedom to bring different more offensive and defensive summoner spells additionally. Summoner spell haste reduces these spells cooldowns a lot, making her summoner spells very low cooldown.

Stat Shards

Items

MYTHIC ITEMS

MOONSTONE RENEWER

This item is super amazing, it gives everything she wants. It is so good all of the stats are useful on and perfect for her kit. I strongly recommend this item! :D

+40 Ability Power
+20 Ability Haste
+200 Health
+100% Base Regeneration

UNIQUE – STARLIT GRACE: When affecting champions with attacks or abilities in combat, heal the nearby allied champion (excluding yourself) with the most missing health for 60 (2 second cooldown). Each second spent in combat with champions grants 5% heal and shield power, stacking up to 5 times for maximum of 25%.

MYTHIC PASSIVE: Empowers each of your other Legendary items with 10 heal for this item's passive effect, Starlit Grace.

SHURELYA'S BATTLESONG

This item is pretty good. The stats are great and the mythic passive gives bonus Abiltiy Haste per legendary item which loves! (none of the other mythic options for have this) This item is good for engaging and escaping and gives your team lots of .

+40 Ability Power
+20 Ability Haste
+200 Health
+100% Base Regeneration

UNIQUE – INSPIRE: Grants you and all allies within 1000 units of you 30% bonus for 4 seconds (75 second cooldown).

UNIQUE – MOTIVATE: Healing, shielding, or buffing allied champions (excluding yourself) grants you and them 25% bonus for 1.5 seconds (4 (per champion) second cooldown).

MYTHIC PASSIVE: Empowers each of your other Legendary items with 5 ability haste.

IMPERIAL MANDATE

This item is good for extra damage but only if you are likely to proc the passive.
Only go this if the enemy team will usually be far away from you, so you can get the empowered and the root on 's .

+40 Ability Power
+20 Ability Haste
+200 Health
+100% Base Regeneration

UNIQUE – COORDINATED FIRE: Abilities that or immobilize Enemy Champions deal 45 − 75 (based on level) bonus magic damage and mark them for 4 seconds. Allied champions that damage marked enemies consume the mark to deal 90 − 150 (based on ally's level) bonus magic damage and grant you and the triggering ally 20% bonus for 2 seconds (6 (per champion, starts upon mark application) second cooldown).

MYTHIC PASSIVE: Empowers each of your other Legendary items with 15 Ability Power.

EVERFROST

is pretty good for lots of Ability Power and if your team needs more engage, since it gives them a Crowd Control to follow up on. It recently got super buffed in Season 12. It is now a lot cheaper! So the item is more accessable for supports like .

+70 Ability Power
+20 Ability Haste
+250 Health
+600

UNIQUE – GLACIATE: Unleash a fan of icy shards in a cone in the target direction, dealing 100 (+ 30% AP) magic damage to all enemies hit and ing them by 65% for 1.5 seconds. Enemies struck in the center of the cone are rooted for the same duration instead (30 second cooldown).

MYTHIC PASSIVE: Empowers each of your other Legendary items with 10 ability power.

LEGENDARY ITEMS

STAFF OF FLOWING WATER

is the best Legendary Item for by far. Allowing for to use her spells and abilities more often by giving her Ability Haste and giving her more Ability Power, along with the Allied Champion is using on. This item gives Ability Power, so it is better to get second item after your Mythic Item instead of if you have a lot of Ability Power Allied Champions on your team such as , , , , etc.

+50 Ability Power
+100% Base Regeneration
+10% Heal and Shield Power

UNIQUE – RAPIDS: Healing or shielding Allied Champions (excluding yourself) grants you and them 25 − 45 (based on target's level) Ability Power and 20 Ability Haste for 4 seconds.

ARDENT CENSER

gives the ability to buff her allies who rely more on on-hit abilities and Attack Speed. gives along with the Allied Champion is using on, on-hit damage and Attack Speed. is better to get second item after your Mythic Item instead of if you have a lot of Attack Damage or Attack Speed based Allied Champions on your team such as most Ad Carry champions like , , , etc. Along with some other champions who also use Attack Damage or on-hit and Attack Speed such as , , , , , etc.

+60 Ability Power
+100% Base Mana Regeneration
+10% Heal and Shield Power

UNIQUE – SANCTIFY: Healing or shielding allied champions (excluding yourself) enhances you and them with 10% − 30% (based on target's level) bonus attack speed and 5 − 20 (based on target's level) bonus magic damage on-hit on basic attacks for 6 seconds.

MIKAEL'S BLESSING

allows to have a basically as an item. is a little worse than though because Active can only be used on certain Crowd Control. In general this item is pretty good though since it Heals your ally aswell, not only ing them.

+15 Ability Haste
+100% Base Regeneration
+50 Magic Resistance
+20% Heal and Shield Power

UNIQUE – PURIFY: Remove all crowd control debuffs (except Airborne, Blind, Disarm, Ground, Nearsight, and Suppression) from yourself or an Allied Champion and Heal the target for 100 − 180 (based on target's level) (120 second cooldown).

REDEMPTION

is a great item for for teamfights since it gives Area Of Effect healing to your team in a circle in an area, and also does True Damage to enemies in the circle. It is still situational since it has a short period where it has to charge up the heal, so make sure to use it early before your allies die.
This item's active heal also scales with Heal and Shield Power, meaning it can be increased by it.

+15 Ability Haste
+100% Base Regeneration
+50 Magic Resistance
+20% Heal and Shield Power

UNIQUE – INTERVENTION: Call upon a beam of light to strike upon the target location after 2.5 seconds, granting vision of the area for the duration. Allies within the area are healed for 180 - 340 (based on target's level), while enemy champions within take 10% of the target's maximum health as true damage. Can be used while dead. (90 second cooldown; 5500 range).

MEJAI'S SOULSTEALER

builds from which is a very cheap item and is a must buy every game on first back if you have 350 Gold for .
Mejai's Soulstealer is an amazing on and is very easy to stack if you can ensure that you don't die and lose the stacks which is pretty easy to do on because she is Untargetable in and Heals Allies that she is using on with meaning that probably won't die if she can keep her Ally alive in those situations.
(just be smart and don't use on an ally who will most likely die and has been doing so all game.)

+20 Ability Power
+100 Health

UNIQUE – GLORY: Gain 4 stacks for each champion kill and 2 stacks for each assist, up to a maximum of 25 stacks. Lose 10 stacks on death. Stacks are .

UNIQUE – DREAD: Gain 5 ability power for each stack of Glory and 10% bonus if you have at least 10 stacks.

RABADON'S DEATHCAP

This item is great to buy if you have a lot of Gold. You can build this in any build on and it will be great, since she has abilities that scale with Ability Power since this item gives a lot of Ability Power.

+120 Ability Power

UNIQUE – MAGICAL OPUS: Increase your Ability Power by 35% of your current Ability Power.

SHADOWFLAME

This is one of the new Season 12 items. It gives magic penetration depending on the enemy's current health and also if they were recently affected by a shield. This item is great against shield supports or champions who have shields. Only build if the Enemy Team has a lot of champions who have Shield items or Shields in their kits, items, Summoner Spells, etc.(some examples of shield items include, , , , , , , , ,, etc.) (Some examples of shield Runes and Summoner Spells include, , , etc.) (Some examples of shield Abilities include, , , , , , etc.) Enemy Champions with low Max Health or if your team will be likely to get them low Health.

+100 Ability Power
+200 Health

UNIQUE – CINDERBLOOM: Dealing magic damage to champions ignores 10 − 20 (based on target's current health) of their magic resistance, increased to maximum value if the they were affected by a shield within the last 5 seconds.

VOID STAFF

is a Magic Penetration item. It gives a lot of Magic Penetration and is good if your Enemies are building a lot of Magic Resistance. It gives a decent amount of Ability Power which and helps with 's Ability Power ratio's on her Abilities including , , , and , giving increased damage, Healing, and Shielding.
This item is not as effective if the Enemy Team does not have a lot of magic resistance.

+65 Ability Power
+45% Magic Penetration

HORIZON FOCUS

has been updated in Season 12. It gives you bonus damage on enemies you hit for 6 seconds if you affect them with a or immobilizing Crowd Control or you use an Ability at 700 or more range. It works on 's and her . This item also gives Ability Haste and Health which is much better because you only lose a 30 Ability Power from the changes which is worth around 500 Gold, in exchange for 15 Ability Haste and Health which combined are worth more gold than 30 Ability Power, making a more Gold efficient item especially for .

+85 Ability Power
+15 Ability Haste
+150 Health

UNIQUE – HYPERSHOT: Dealing ability damage to a champion with an ability that is neither unit-targeted nor auto-targeted at more than 700 units away or ing,
immobilizing or polymorphing reveals them and increases your damage dealt to them by 10% for 6 seconds. (Damage increase applies on 's % Current Health damage on .

CHEMTECH PUTRIFIER

builds from which is a cheap item that is easily accessible for for only 800 Gold.
is amazing since it gives 2 Grievous Wounds items for one! (Grievous Wounds reduced healing) also has amazing stats for giving her Ability Power, Ability Haste, and Regeneration. Go this item if the enemy team has healing abilities such as , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . Or they have abilities that grant omnivamp or such as , , , , , , when paired with , , , , . Or they have items that grant omnivamp or or increase healing in general such as , , , , , and . Or they have Runes or Summoner Spells that grant increased healing, or omnivamp such as, , , and .

+55 Ability Power
+20 Ability Haste
+100% Base Regeneration

UNIQUE – PUFFCAP TOXIN: Dealing magic damage to enemy champions inflicts them with 40% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds. Healing or shielding allied champions (excluding yourself) empowers your and their next instance of damage against enemy champions within 5 seconds to apply 60% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
This passive can be used on 's , , , and .

KNIGHT'S VOW

is good if you have 1 or 2 allies that you NEED to stay alive. It reduces the incoming damage from the ally that you have this item bound to, and heals you for a percentage of your allies damage that you have bound to. Its really useful on since she's untargetable when using on an ally and her health doesn't matter as much as other champions because of

+10 Ability Haste
+400 Health
+150% Base Health Regeneration

UNIQUE – PLEDGE: Designate an allied champion as Worthy, forming tether between you and them. Champions can only be designated as Worthy by one at a time (60 second cooldown).

UNIQUE – SACRIFICE: While your Worthy ally is nearby and you are above 30% of your maximum health, redirect 10% of the post-mitigation physical and magic damage they take to you as true damage and heal for 8% of the damage dealt by your Worthy ally to champions. If they are below 30% maximum health, the damage redirection is increased to 20%.

ZHONYA'S HOURGLASS

Please do not build unless you are constantly getting your animation cancelled by Crowd Control. This item is useful if you are constantly getting crowd controlled as it buys you time for your team to arrive or for your enemies to die. Otherwise, dont build this item as a core item in your builds in most games. can use UNIQUE – STASIS when she has arrived to the target ally with in order to negate damage to with an ability that has already been casted on . Some examples of this are , , , , , In-flight projectiles such as , , , Tether abilities such as, , /, , /, , and . Along with some other abilities that can be used on in under certain circumstances.

+65 Ability Power
+10 Ability Haste
+45 Armor

UNIQUE – STASIS: Put yourself in Stasis icon.png stasis for 2.5 seconds, rendering you untargetable and invulnerable for the duration but also unable to move, declare basic attacks, cast abilities, use summoner spells, or activate items (120 second cooldown).

WARDING AND SUPPORT ITEM

SPELLTHIEF'S EDGE - SUPPORT ITEM

This is the best support item on make sure to start this every game along with a (you can go 2 s if you want but it is not as effective for vision control.)

+8 Ability Power
+10 Health
+50% Base Regeneration
+2 Gold per 10 seconds

UNIQUE – TRIBUTE: Grants a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges. If an allied champion is nearby, damaging abilities and attacks (Basic Attacks, , and .) against champions and structures consume a charge, up to one per attack or cast. Consuming a charge grants 20 Gold. Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills.

UNIQUE – QUEST: Earn 500 Gold using this item to upgrade to , gaining the WARDING active with 3 wards in stock.

+15 Ability Power
+70 Health
+75% Base Regeneration
+3 Gold 3 per 10 seconds

UNIQUE – WARDING: Consumes a charge to place a Stealth Ward at the target location, which reveals the surrounding area. Charges refill upon visiting the shop (3 charges; 600 range).

This item has the same UNIQUE – TRIBUTE passive as .

UNIQUE – QUEST: Earn 500 Gold (Separate 500 Gold from .) using this item to upgrade to , increasing the WARDING active to instead have 4 wards in stock.

+40 Ability Power
+75 Health
+100% Base Regeneration
+3 Gold 3 per 10 seconds

UNIQUE – WARDING: Consumes a charge to place a Stealth Ward at the target location, which reveals the surrounding area. Charges refill upon visiting the shop (4 charges; 600 range).

UNIQUE: Receives diminishing gold from excessive minion kills.

TRINKET WARDS

is good if you have an ally that will be pathing in places you want to use this trinket on because you will be attached to them with (preferably a duo partner so you have more synergy and communication.)
It blinds enemy wards in its path and allows you to reveal enemy wards too so you can remove them and deny vision.

is great in geenral and has a huge range and is good in most circumstances. Great for checking objectives without having to facecheck areas with no vision. You will be missing out on s and if you get this trinket though as it has a longer cooldown than both of them, but most players prefer to go or anyway so it tends to not matter. Go if you don't know what trinket ward to go.

is pretty good in general, its what you buy when you first start the game always 100% of the time along with your support item .
It has a low cooldown and can hold up to 2 charges and have 3 of them on the map at a time. (this is the same as your support item wards, so if you have 3 s on the map currently, if you place a or ward, it will replace the that is closest to expiring with your new ward you just placed down on the map.) Most of the time you will replace for or once you complete your support item //.

WATCHFUL WARDSTONE AND CONTROL WARD

is a good item but it does take up an inventory slot. It can store up to 3 Control Wards and increases your ward cap on wards you can have placed at a time to 4 s or / wards and 2 s Instead of 3 s or / ward and 1 .

+10 Ability Haste
+150 Health

UNIQUE: Automatically upgrades to after completing a support quest (1000 Gold 1000 generated gold) and reaching level 13.

+15 Ability Haste
+150 Health

UNIQUE – ARCANE CACHE: This item can store up to 3 purchased s.

UNIQUE – BEHOLD: Increase your , Totem Ward, and caps by 1.

UNIQUE – BLESSING OF IXTAL: Increases bonus attack damage, bonus health, ability power and ability haste by 12% of your current attack damage, max health, and ability power.

Early Game

HOW TO PLAY YUUMI'S EARLY GAME

What items do I start on Yuumi, and what items should I get on my first-second back?

When you start the game, every game on you want to start and either a , or 2 s.

Start a with your if you think that you are in a lane that you will not be able to detach from in because the enemy botlane has crowd control threats such as , , , etc.

Start 2 s with your in lanes that you will be experiencing a lot of poke back whenever you try to proc on enemy champions with high poke threat and damage early that you can still proc without getting Crowd Controlled in such as , , , etc.

On your first back as ,
you should always try to buy a component to one of your Mythic Items such as , , , or . If you can't afford one of these components, you can choose between a few cheaper components to items that you will build that are also very good. Such as , , , etc.

What should I do during the early laning phase as Yuumi?

is pretty weak before level 6 in the early laning phase, so you won't have any kill-threat or much lane pressure before then. You can still try to bully your opponents out of lane though, but it all depends on the matchup. Some matchups you cant do anything against unless your opponents mess up. Most of the time you want to be attached and utalizing your Adaptive Force to your advantage and focus on wave control to try and make it easier for your Ad Carry to farm.

For example into an easier matchup, you should be actively looking for windows to detach from to bully your opponents with basic attacks. Poking enemies with basic attacks into a , , , etc. (basically any opponent that does not have an easily accessable hard crowd control ability or if they do have one, it is easy to dodge) Is pretty easy, as you have 's shield to help sustain you so you can take a little bit of damage. Pairing this poking playstyle with works well because you are able to consistently proc it with basic attacks + shield.
A bad matchup for example, into a or , it is too risky to detach to bully them with basic attacks. Using your provides Adaptive Force to her ally, so you want to make sure to be on your Ad Carry whenever there is no opportunities to poke.
What you can do however, is whenever the enemy uses their big crowd control ability, you can detach and start bullying them as if they dont have the ability at all until it is back up. If you need more help on matchups and how Champions work, you can look at the League of Legends Wiki and search for a Champion to see their abilities information, such as cooldowns. (Make sure that when you search you see the /Lol text next to their name and it will be their abilities page. You can do this for any Champion, not just . In general, can bully enemies out of lane with no matter what the matchup is. Use every time its up for maximum poke and procs. Enough poking with and Basic Attacks, and they should be low enough to kill with your Ad Carry, even before level 6. Especially if you have an aggressive Ad Carry such as , , , , , etc. They do a lot of damage early game and combined with it is even more survivability and damage along with attack speed and from .

To prevent running out of , continue using for mana restoration. You can also pick up a first back to help with this as well if you are having a lot of problems.

is great at chasing enemies down with and 's . Building makes it even easier to chase enemies down to their death. Especially with an Ad Carry like , , , etc. You can usually pick up early kills with these Ad Carries with their amazing chase potential with , , and . Just a little tip, you can try to sit in with your Ad Carry and look for sneaky s too. If your opponent does manage to fall for it, you should be able to snag a free kill.

Can Yuumi roam?

can roam sometimes, but for the most part no. cannot roam by herself, however, is great at roaming with her jungler.
Some good junglers for are , , , , , etc. (Basically any bruiser or assassin jungler is going to be good with .) Whenever your Jungler ganks, attach to them with and look for a gank Mid lane. Ping Assistance and then Ping your jungler and Ping your . It should be a free kill as long as your jungler can follow up on . You can also path towards Mid or Top (usually Mid because it's closer to Bot lane.) after you recall and do the same pings to your Top/Mid as well as Jungle and see if there is an opportunity for a pick. You can look for 's over walls for sneaky roots. If you have a Mid laner with Crowd Control, you can also follow up on their Crowd Control with + your jungler's abilities such as or , etc.
Basically can roam after reaching level 6 and with ally help.

Summary

Overall, 's pre-level 6 is not very good, but she can still tend to bully and punish her enemies well during the laning phase and scales very well, taking over the lane after reaching level 6.

Mid Game & Late Game

HOW TO PLAY YUUMI'S MID/LATE GAME

How do I transition to mid/late game as Yuumi?

The first thing you need to do before you can start impacting the map and doing things in the mid & late game as , is to find out who your win condition is. With , your allies are everything, your win condition can be something else, but it relies around being able to buff and help someone on her team carry and succeed. The easiest way to know, is by seeing who on your team is the best fit champion. Champions that are good with usually are Assassins and/or Bruisers. These champions are great for , because they are great in the meta right now. All of the items for these champions are great such as , , , , , , etc. These champions are usually melee and allow easy access to her passive because they have to dive in to get to their and enemies, as well as allow her easy access to getting big game changing 's. These champions however, are usually not very useful without a lead, so try to pick out ones with a lead of Minion Kills, Tower Platings, Towers, Kills, Assists, etc. It also goes around if the enemy team comp makes it easier to shut down this champion, if so maybe it is not as good to be on them because they might die and leave vulnerable. For example, who do you think will be your carry in this situation? Have a look at the scoreboard.

Ally Team

| - 2/7/2 - 45 CS
| - 7/3/6 - 200 CS
| - 3/3/6 - 160 CS
| - 6/3/4 - 150 CS
| - 0/1/9 - 2 CS

Enemy Team

| - 7/4/2 - 190 CS
| - 3/4/7 - 160 CS
| - 3/3/2 - 150 CS
| - 2/5/0 - 100 CS
| - 0/3/1 - 12 CS

In this scenario, is ahead and though hes not super ahead of , he has a which basically secures that he does not die if he plays correctly. Also, their team has 4 Attack Damage Champions, making it very easy for to snowball and be very hard to kill if he builds for example a and . This is just an example, and this will not be the case every game ofcourse.

Once you've found what champion is your primary win condition, needs to be useful for this champion. So try to build items for this champion's kit in particular. For example, if you have a jungle who is your win condition, (as shown above) is a great item for and also synergizes well with the rest of 's team with and . Both of which are Attack Damage champions, meaning that they can utilize Attack Speed from to get more attacks to do more damage. For example if you had a , , and a it would be much better to get instead of or at least before you get . It all comes down to drafting and which items and plays are best.

You should also put Vision around areas where your carries are. If your carry for example if its the , and he has been ganking Mid lane all game, and tends to play towards Mid lane, put more vision around mid lane to set up for safer and more secure ganks and you can perhaps roam with your carry now that you know you won't get caught out in the area since there is vision. Playing around vision and your carries is important.

How do I fight for objectives with Yuumi?

Fighting for objectives as is mostly like any support. The first thing you should do (and the easiest one) is to set up vision on the objective - let's say it's Hextech . Set up vision in the Pixel Brush which can be found on both sides of , to the side of each and / pit. Along with vision around and behind the Dragon pit. The same would go for any other objective, like if there is an Objective Bounty on the first Mid lane , or the .

After this, you can sit in a as I mentioned in the Early Game portion of the guide, - this trick works at any part of the game but can give easy and accessible kills early game as well - with an ally, you can use your to cheese the enemies and catch them off guard, and if there is a big objective, maybe kill the entire enemy team. This trick works most of the time if all 5 teammates are in one but make sure to use a before trying to use this trick. Make sure to ping back your allies with this Ping(if you dont know how: using G/V keys, you press the corresponding ping key and click on a target. For example if you press V (retreat) and then on an enemy champ it will ping "fall back from..." while pressing G and then on an enemy champ will ping for target/assist.) If they are trying to do the // in the pit and the enemy team is likely behind the // Pit - to tell them to walk back a bit and pull the // back a little so that the enemy jungler (or whoever would try to steal the objective) can't steal the objective as easily.
This is just basic knowledge, but it is very important for setting up to do objectives.

How should I play teamfights when playing Yuumi?

Teamfighting is very special for because she is the most unique champion in the game - There is no champion that has her playstyle. So it will take a bit of time to fully grasp her playstyle and how she is meant to be played.

The first thing is to prioritize your carry. is useful only with an allied champion nearby, because of all of her abilities being reliant on using
You should be switching from ally to ally in teamfights trying to angle your at maximum range and cast time to get the empowered version - as said in the Abilities section of the guide, 's range can be extended by using on another ally, as it changed the range of the ability overall, but the cast duration is still the same unless you hit a target. - this is very important because it maximizes your damage and allows to slow, which catches enemies out very easily.
Your Ultimate ability, is insane in teamfights as well and uses the same range mechanic as because it can be casted while using to reposition it to help get each and every Enemy Champion rooted by .
is a game changer in teamfights, and you should be using it only when your ally has missing health for the most part - unless you will not need it again in the fight and you are chasing one or two enemies down. Prioritize using on allies that utilize it's Attack Speed and bonuses.
Using to make sure doesn't run out of is very important too. Make sure that before you detach from to use , there is no enemies nearby that have any immobilizing Crowd Control spells that can be used on you to cancel your animation when attaching back onto an Ally Champion.

Summary

Overall, 's mid and late game is incredibly strong. scales really well into the late game with her items and levels, being able to output insane healing and shielding for her team and damage in all fights.

Thank you

Thank you so much for reading my Yuumi Guide!

I really appreciate it and I hope you learned something new. I really put a lot of time and effort into this guide and just wanted to show other people the amazingness that adds to . After all, she is my favorite champion ever!

Good luck, have fun!

[Season 14] Yuumi The Magical Cat Guide ᓚᘏᗢ

[Season 14] Yuumi The Magical Cat Guide ᓚᘏᗢ

Recommended Items

Runes: Summon Aery - Resolve

Spells:

Exhaust

Heal

Exhaust

Ignite

Items

Ability Order E>Q>W

Feline Friendship (PASSIVE)

Prowling Projectile (Q)

You and Me! (W)

Zoomies (E)

Final Chapter (R)

Feline Friendship (PASSIVE)

Prowling Projectile (Q)

You and Me! (W)

Zoomies (E)

Final Chapter (R)

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