Best ADC champions to play with Yuumi in LoL

If you’re wondering which are the best ADC champions to play with Yuumi, here are the five best picks to play alongside her this season.

The best ADC to play with Yuumi in LoL

Yuumi has recently received a major rework to her kit, which has raised some major skepticism. League players have been complaining heavily about the gameplay experience when going up against Yuumi, which finally led to major tweaks to the champion’s kit. Riot Games wanted to “emphasize Yuumi’s unique ability as a powerful single-target defensive enchanter”, while also creating more counterplay to punish the champion.

Even though the balance team seems to have taken the right direction, some professional players like Bwipo are still thinking that the champion is overpowered. A few days after the release of Yuumi’s rework, the magical cat was hotfixed and it should now be in a balanced state.

That said, Yuumi is usually with specific ADCs that are able to take full advantage of her kit. Most of the time her power is directly correlated to the power of the bot lane duos she is played in. If you are wondering which are the best marksmen to play with her, we have compiled a list of 5 champions that are currently strong with Yuumi.

Zeri – The undisputed no. 1 for Yuumi

If you have watched some professional League in the last year, you probably have seen Yuumi being played with Zeri the majority of the time. This is because the two are literally far more than “best friends”.

Yuumi boosts all Zeri’s strong points, allowing her to be almost untouchable later in the game. Even though she doesn’t offer the same level of healing, Yuumi is still able to peel Zeri with her shields and the newly-introduced resistances, making her extremely hard to one-shot.

Unless the two are heavily punished early on, Zeri-Yuumi will just take over the game and proceed to 2v8 the entire game.

Read also: Best supports with Zeri in League

Twitch – It’s all about the late-game carry potential

Just like most enchanters, Yuumi does a great job at empowering all the hypercarries. This includes Twitch, which can utilize his invisibility to make a great combo with the magical cat. They can use it to start fights or to make surprise ganks onto other lanes.

While the two aren’t that strong early on, the duo gets stronger the longer the game goes. As long as the enemies are not miles ahead in gold and experience, Twitch should start dealing significant damage after two items: just make sure to not get caught at the start of a fight, and Twitch will be able to melt down anyone in sight.

Kai’Sa – one of the best and most enjoyable ADC to play with Yuumi

If you like to play scaling ADCs and wait for the late-game teamfights to show off your carry potential, then you should consider playing Kai’Sa alongside Yuumi.

With other champions like Zeri getting heavily nerfed, she is starting to pop up more and more as a great alternative. She offers decent mobility with her own kit, and much better burst damage thanks to her Q and passive. And considering the new on-hit build, Kai’Sa also deals good poke damage with her W, potentially sniping people on the map.

Just like most ADCs in this list, all Yuumi has to do is make sure Kai’Sa can get safely to those items spikes without falling behind. This duo will likely struggle in most matchups early on, but as long as you manage the minion waves fine, the enemies won’t be able to do much about it.

Read also: Best supports to play with Kai’Sa in LoL

Ezreal – The safe scaling laners

With other ADCs getting nerfed, Ezreal is rising back up again as one of the strongest marksmen in the meta. And despite Yuumi being in a weak spot currently, the two still make a great scaling duo with great self-peeling.

Considering Ezreal’s poke and long-range abilities, as well as Yuumi’s enchanter nature, you should have little to no problems surviving most of the incoming aggression from the enemy team. Moreover, if everything goes south, Ezreal still has his own E to quickly get away from danger.

Another great thing about this duo is the scaling both have. Not only do they have a safe laning phase, but they get stronger the longer the game goes, turning Ezreal into a carry threat in the fights. Even if they try to burst you down, you will have enough shields to tank most of the damage anyway.

Having said that, being a safe bot lane duo also means that you won’t be able to find great leads during the laning phase. See if you can poke the enemies out but don’t bother trading heavily against them.

Nilah – Emerging new duo for Yuumi

Whenever you see your partner hovering Nilah, be aware that Yuumi matches with her quite well synergy-wise. This is because Nilah gets extra shields and heals after a brief delay with her passive and Yuumi is one of the champions that spams most of those effects.

Thanks to the complimentary kits, they are able to empower one another more so than other pairings. Knowing that she will get good peeling and lots of shields, Nilah is able to play more aggressively during the skirmishes and the teamfights. As long as Yuumi stays attached to Nilah, she won’t have issues surviving most of the incoming damage.

However, playing Nilah and Yuumi means giving up most of the early game and putting your team in an awkward position when it comes to lane priority. Since Nilah has a low auto attack range and Yuumi can’t clear minion waves fast enough, it’s likely that you’re going to get pushed in quite often, and you will be late in moving for any skirmish.

If you’re able to play around with this one weakness, though, Nilah and Yuumi are a great bot lane duo to hard-carry games and go 2v8 mode. 

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