Yi Sun-shin can trigger his Control Immunity too often and for too long, making him hard to counter. And we aim to reduce its duration while preserving his mobility.
Skill 1 - Traceless BUFF
Control Immunity Duration: 1s >> 0.4s (matching the dash duration)
Ultimate - Mountain Shocker REVAMP
Map Vision Duration: 5s >> 2s
Decreased early-to-mid game HP and mid-to-late game burst potential.
Attributes - NERF
Base HP: 2570 >> 2320
HP Growth: 132.5 >> 150
Ultimate - Mountain Shocker NERF
Damage: 160-320 +65% Total Physical Attack >> 160-240 +50% Total Physical Attack
Reduced Yi Sun-shin's downtime when Ultimate is unavailable.
Ultimate - Mountain Shocker BUFF
Cooldown: 72-60s >> 60s at all levels
Duration: 10s >> 15s
As an Assassin, Yi Sun-shin's playstyle doesn't quite match his intended role. His ability to secure kills in the early-to-mid game has been relatively weak, forcing him to rely on fast resource farming to gain an economic lead and take over the match. We aim to enhance his burst damage potential, and therefore we've completely redesigned his Ultimate. We've also optimized the control experience of all his other skills.
Passive - Heavenly Vow BUFF
New Effect: Added an Enhanced Basic Attack indicator. Yi Sun-shin can now see whether his next Basic Attack will be a glaive attack or an arrow attack.
New Effect: Reduced the backswing of the second Enhanced Basic Attack from Weapon Mastery.
Removed Effect: Obtaining Turtle Ships from the Base.
Skill 1 - Traceless BUFF
Fixed an issue where the skill wasn't granting Slow Immunity as intended.
Skill 2 - Blood Floods BUFF
Arrow damage no longer decays with each target hit.
Self Slow Effect while holding to shoot an arrow: 20% >> 5% Significantly reduced arrow shooting backswing.
Ultimate - Mountain Shocker REVAMP
Yi Sun-shin summons a turtle ship and gains sight of the whole map. During this time, Yi Sun-shin gains extra Movement Speed Bonus. When cast again, Yi Sun-shin commands the turtle ship to ram toward a target location, stunning enemy heroes in the area. Then he commands the naval fleet to launch 3 waves of cannon shots on the area, dealing Physical Damage and slowing the enemies.
New Effect: Immediately triggers Weapon Mastery after casting Ultimate.
Removed Effect: Increased Enhanced Basic Attack Damage from Ultimate upgrades.
Reduced the Mana Cost of some skills to match the purple Buff adjustment.
Skill 2 - Blood Floods
Mana Cost: 85-110 →
60-85
We're making the following adiustments to Yi Sun-shin to increase both his skill cap and early-game performance.
Attribute
Base Physical Attack: 100 → 95
Passive - Heavenly Vow
First Enhanced Basic Attack's Damage: 60%-100% → 70%-100%
Second Enhanced Basic Attack's Damage: 60%-75% → 55%-70%
New Effect: First Enhanced Basic Attack now grants extra Movement Speed on hit.
Early to mid game damage reduced.
Attribute
Base Physical Attack: 110 → 100
We still want to see Yi Sun-shin as a Jungler. This adjustment will also allow Yi Shun-shin to try Aulus's new weapon.
Role
Marksman/Assassin → Assassin/Marksman
Increased the difficulty of farming for him and made it easier for enemies to counter his Turtle Ship.
Passive - Heavenly Vow
Crit Damage of 1st enhanced Basic Attack: 70-100% → 60-100%
Crit Damage of 2nd enhanced Basic Attack: 55-70% → 60-75%
Ultimate - Mountain Shocker
Cooldown: 80-60s → 72-60s
Removed the slow effect
We've increased the difficulty of using the Ultimate to expand his vision or get assists, to reduce opponents' pressure.
Ultimate - Mountain Shocker
Cooldown: 60s → 80-60s
Currently, Yi Sun-shin is much stronger than other heroes in the early and middle game, especially in the high-rank matches. Therefore, we have nerfed him to some extent and will continue to consider future adjustments according to the performance.
Passive - Heavenly Vow
Critical Damage of the first enhanced attack: 85%-100% → 70%-100%
Skill 1 - Traceless
30% Damage Reduction removed
Slightly shortened the backswing of his Basic Attack.
Passive - Heavenly Vow
The Movement Speed gain from the Turtle Ship after decay increased from 15% → 21%
Skill 1 (With Turtle Ship) - Dauntless Fleet
Synchronized the indicator size with the actual effect.
One of the main feature of Yi Sun-shin is that he can switch his weapons flexibly according to his distance from the target. However, actually in most of the cases he was playing a ranged role instead of taking advantage of his glaive. Therefore, in this revamp, we have added powerful effects to his each weapon swap, which boosts his melee ability and provides him with more possibilities. As a result, Yi Sun-shin is given another new role: Assassin, apart from his original role Marksman.
The Admiral who can fight using different weapons.
Passive - Heavenly Vow
Yi Sun-shin chooses his longbow or glaive to attack, according to his distance from the target. After each weapon swap, Weapon Mastery is triggered and his next two attacks will be enhanced. The first attack deals higher Critical Damage. The second attack deals lower Critical Damage and grants Yi Sun-shin Movement Speed. Each enhanced attack reduces the cooldown of Traceless. The allied base is transformed into a naval fleet. Every several seconds or after respawn, a Turtle Ship is spawned at the allied base. Yi Sun-shin can board, the Turtle Ship and gains Movement Speed and enhances Traceless.
Skill 1 - Traceless
Yi Sun-shin slashes forward with his glaive, dealing Physical Damage to enemies on the path. He becomes immune to CC gains Damage, Reduction for a period of time. After this skill is enhanced by the Turtle Ship: Yi Sun-shin orders the Turtle Ship to charge toward the target, dealing damage to the first enemy hit and nearby enemies and stunning them.
Skill 2 - Blood Floods
Without charging: Yi Sun-shin slashes swiftly with his glaive, dealing Physical Damage to enemies within a square area. With Charging: Yi Sun-shin shoots forward a powerful arrow, dealing damage to the target. Yi, Sun-shin gains [Weapon Mastery] right away upon skill cast.
Ultimate - Mountain Shocker
Yi Sun-shin commands the naval fleet to launch 3 waves of precise cannon attacks to all enemy heroes. Each wave deals Physical Damage. Enemies hit by any wave will be slowed. Passive damage is increased, each time this skill levels up.