Master Yi

Master Yi doesn’t rush into a fight so much as arrive at its conclusion early. Years spent disciplining his body and refining his mind have closed the gap between thought and action to almost nothing, and violence, when it does eventually come, tends to resolve itself in a single decisive pass of his blade rather than a drawn-out exchange. He chooses to enter combat only as a last resort, preferring stillness whenever stillness will do the job instead.

He is one of the last people alive still actively practicing Wuju, the Ionian art that shaped him, and he treats that inheritance as something to be protected rather than casually performed. His moveset carries the discipline forward directly:

1. Double Strike, his passive, lets a string of consecutive basic attacks land twice in a row, rewarding the patient buildup Wuju demands of its practitioners.
2. Alpha Strike carries him across the battlefield in an untargetable blur, striking every enemy caught along his path.
3. Meditate restores his health and reduces incoming damage, a literal pause built directly into his fighting style.
4. Wuju Style adds bonus true damage to his basic attacks, while Highlander, his ultimate, strips away every slowing effect against him and lets champion kills refresh its duration outright.

Passing that discipline on matters just as much to him as using it himself. Yi is said to test would-be disciples using the Seven Lenses of Insight, deciding through them who is worthy of carrying Wuju’s legacy forward. He treats Ionia‘s martial tradition as something too important to hand off carelessly, even to someone who fights as capably as fellow Ionians like Irelia or Akali. Whether he could ever be satisfied with a successor is a separate question entirely. Mana rarely runs out on him for long, since Meditate hands most of it back the moment he slows down long enough to use it.