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Yuumi
Patch 16.2.1
SupportDifficulty
Very Easy
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Identify your team's most fed carry, build the 'Best Friend' bond with them, and keep them alive through every teamfight using and . If they survive the initial burst, you win the fight through sustain.
Playstyle
An untargetable enchanter who specializes in turning a single carry into an unkillable raid boss. You trade presence and roaming for unparalleled late-game scaling and safety.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +Untargetability via makes you immune to most forms of focus and assassination
- +Extreme scaling— and provide massive buffs to your 'Best Friend'
- +Strong poke and reliable slows with once you learn the steering
- +Powerful counter-engage with that heals your team while shredding enemies
Weaknesses
- -Completely dependent on allies; if your team falls behind, you have no way to impact the map alone
- -CC is fatal—getting hit by a stun while unattached puts on a 5-second cooldown
- -Zero roaming pressure; you cannot effectively gank other lanes like a Thresh or Alistar
- -Weak early-game health pool makes you an easy target for dive-heavy bot lanes
Abilities
periodically grants a heal when you hit champions with attacks or . The healing is transferred to your next Attached ally. The 'Best Friend' mechanic is key: you gain the bond by killing minions and champions with an ally while Attached.
A steerable missile. While on your Best Friend, always applies an enhanced slow and gives your ally on-hit damage. Use it to scout bushes or slow fleeing targets for your ADC.
Your core mechanic. Dash to an ally to become untargetable. While on your Best Friend, grants you Heal and Shield Power and gives your ally on-hit healing. Never hop off if the enemy has hard CC ready.
Grants a shield, Movement Speed, and Attack Speed. While Attached, it targets the ally. Use to help your ADC kite or to mitigate burst damage from trades.
Yuumi fires 5 waves of damage and healing. While on her Best Friend, the waves follow your cursor. You can cast and swap allies with while channeling. It's a massive tool for sustaining your frontline during a dive.
Teamfight Role
Primary Enchanter / Buffer
Stay attached to your primary carry. Use to slow high-priority targets and to keep your frontline healthy. Your main goal is to keep the shield from up during critical damage windows.
If your carry is full health but another vital teammate is dying, use to hop over, cast , then hop back to your Best Friend for the passive bonuses.
Combos
Standard Poke
(steered) -> Ally auto-attacks
Steer to hit the enemy ADC. On your Best Friend, this triggers bonus on-hit damage for them immediately.
The All-In
-> ->
Activate to provide sustain and damage, use to give your ally the speed to stick to the target, and to slow the enemy's escape.
Passive Proc Reset
Exit -> Auto-attack champion ->
When the enemy's CC is on cooldown, hop off to proc for a free heal, then immediately return to safety.
Emergency Flash Escape
Exit -> Flash -> to distant ally
If your current host dies and you are about to be collapsed on, Flash toward a different ally to get back into range.
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 1 | allows for safe, long-range poke that can start winning the health-bar war early. |
| Level 6 | provides massive teamfight impact and can save an ally from a 2v3 dive. |
| Level 11 | Second rank of significantly increases the healing and damage output in mid-game skirmishes. |
| Level 16 | Your late-game scaling is at its peak. Your shield and Best Friend bonuses make your carry nearly unkillable. |
Tips & Tricks
- • is much easier to land if you curve it in a circle rather than flying it in a straight line.
- •The 'Best Friend' bond is built by killing things together. If you want to switch Best Friends, you must stay on the new ally while they farm for several minutes.
- •You can cast while channeling . Don't wait for the ultimate to finish to shield your ally.
- •Avoid using to hop between allies if the enemy has AOE CC like Amumu or Malphite, as you can get knocked out of your dash mid-air.
- •Your heal is essential for lane sustain. Watch the enemy's cooldowns; if their hook or stun is down, hop off and auto them.
- • heals allies but does NOT shield them. Use to cover the health gap if they are being focused by burst.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Staying attached 100% of the time in the early game→You miss out on healing and mana-less trades, causing your ADC to lose the lane slowly.
- ✕Using while grounded or silenced→The ability will not fire, and you will likely be focused down and killed instantly.
- ✕Ignoring the Best Friend bond→You lose out on the massive on-hit healing from and the extra slow from .
- ✕Wasting for just the movement speed→The shield is on a long cooldown early; if you use it for speed, you won't have it when the enemy engages.
- ✕Getting hit by CC while swapping allies with → goes on a 5-second lockout, usually resulting in your death.
AI-generated guide • Patch 16.2.1 • Cached