Champion Select[]
- Pick
- Ban
- ▶️ "Doubt is the greatest enemy."
Original
Cosmic Blade
A skin's voice-over set may feature: a filtered variation for some or all of the base skin's quotes; additional or replaced quotes. A skin's sound effect set may feature: unique events; replacements of the base skin's SFX for some or all events. Skin variants (e.g. Prestige) inherit all audio from their regular version, but can feature unique quotes or SFX.
Movement[]
Moving[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️
▶️ 
"A true master is an eternal student." - ▶️ ▶️ "Doubt is the greatest enemy."
- ▶️ ▶️ "The focused mind can pierce through stone."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Anger gives motivation without purpose."
- ▶️ ▶️ "I will show you the path."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Form before strength."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Let us begin."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Do not let your pride blind you."
- ▶️ ▶️ "In me, Wuju lives on."
First Encounter[]
- First Encounter with Wukong
Taunt[]
- ▶️ ▶️ "You wish to learn the hard way, I see."
- ▶️ ▶️ "I will take an eye! ...As if I don't have enough already."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Your skills are inferior!"
Joke[]
- Master Yi briefly balances the tip of his blade on his finger.
- ▶️ ▶️ "The goggles? Just for reading."
- ▶️ ▶️ "The key to immortality? Not dying."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Wuju... pass me that potion?"
Laugh[]
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi lets out a short chuckle.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi lets out a short chuckle.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi lets out a short chuckle.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi lets out a short chuckle.
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
- 25% chance
Attacking[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ "One cut, of many."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Blade and body."
- ▶️ ▶️ "This will be... a harsh lesson."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Never await victory."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Observe."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Defend yourself."
Ability Casting[]
Using Alpha Strike[]
- ▶️ ▶️ "Did you miss it?"
- ▶️ ▶️ "A master stroke!"
- ▶️ ▶️ "Many foes, one strike!"
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
Using Meditate[]
- ▶️ ▶️ "Mind and body."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Look inward."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Shh! I'm meditating."
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi meditates.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi meditates.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi meditates.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi meditates.
Using Wuju Style[]
Using Highlander[]
- ▶️ ▶️ "Watch, and learn."
- ▶️ ▶️ "So fast."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Speed of thought!"
- ▶️ ▶️ "Keep up!"
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
Death[]
Most PROJECT: Yi quotes are vocalized in two types: <Normal> | <Highlander>. The quotes typed in bold play only when 
Highlander is active.
Movement[]
First Move[]
- ▶️ "Those who would harm us shall be corrected."
- ▶️ "The air carries... a familiar scent."
- ▶️ "Death has marked our enemies. Let us show them."
Moving[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "These... are not my thoughts!"
- ▶️ "Order must be enforced."
- ▶️ "I have held this sword... always."
- ▶️ "Humanity has faltered."
- ▶️ "I remember a warmth called... hope."
- ▶️ "Something... beyond my vision."
- ▶️ "There were others..."
- ▶️ "This world is plagued."
- ▶️ "The voice of a stranger... echoes in my mind."
- ▶️ "Isolate the radicals."
- ▶️ "Perfection can be achieved."
- ▶️ "We are memories... deleted."
- ▶️ "None are without guilt."
- ▶️ "Some lives persist in error."
- ▶️ "Have I died?"
- ▶️ "Demons hide among us."
- ▶️ "Memories... like shadows in the fog..."
- ▶️ "We are blighted by detractors."
- ▶️ "A spirit cannot be engineered."
- ▶️ "The fog has lifted."
- ▶️ "Truth is never lost."
- ▶️ "We are not meant to grasp eternity."
- ▶️ "A swordsman lives in the reflection of his blade."
- ▶️ "Infinite possibilities lie before me."
- ▶️ "Speed is the essence of all things."
- ▶️ "What is a future that steals our pasts?"
- ▶️ "This is my path."
- ▶️ "We are more than our vessels."
First Encounter[]
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Fiora
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Lucian
- ▶️ ▶️ "Guns? Let us see how steady your hands are."
- ▶️ ▶️ "You had best keep your distance, Lucian."
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Yasuo
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Zed
- First Encounter with Master Yi
- First Encounter with Wukong
Taunt[]
- Yi runs two fingers along the edge of his blade.
- ▶️ ▶️ "Which blade will mark your end?"
- ▶️ ▶️ "Moths should not carry torches."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Your heart will warm my blade."
Joke[]
- Yi brandishes his dual-blade, but accidentally triggers a hidden third blade in the weapon.
- ▶️ ▶️ "I have known this blade my entire-- whoa, where did that come from?"
- ▶️ ▶️ "Progress requires only a blade... that produces more blades..."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Use caution when faced with the hand of-- whoops, pumped the safety."
Laugh[]
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
- 25% chance
Attacking[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "You may attempt to defend yourself."
- ▶️ "Tomorrow is no longer your concern."
- ▶️ "Take comfort in a clean death."
- ▶️ "They will... comply."
- ▶️ "A darkness lurks within me."
- ▶️ "Do not trust corrupted memories."
- ▶️ "Fear will not save you."
- ▶️ "I must move faster."
- ▶️ "Mercy is stilling a chaotic mind."
- ▶️ "Weakness is... human."
- ▶️ "My eyes are clouded."
- ▶️ "Submit or die; choice is your right."
- ▶️ "I see the edge of living."
- ▶️ "My mind... is free."
- ▶️ "This will be... your final lesson."
- ▶️ "Our fates converge."
- ▶️ "My name... is Yi."
- ▶️ "I am no one's pawn."
- ▶️ "Face your demon."
Ability Casting[]
Using Alpha Strike[]
- ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
- ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
- ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
- ▶️ Master Yi grunts.
- ▶️ "Observe!"
- ▶️ "Eyes open!"
Using Meditate[]
- ▶️ "Reconstituting."
- ▶️ "Defending."
- ▶️ "Field active."
- ▶️ "Recharging."
- ▶️ Master Yi meditates.
- ▶️ Master Yi sighs.
- ▶️ Master Yi sighs.
- ▶️ Master Yi sighs.
- ▶️ "Infusing."
- ▶️ "My spirit breathes."
- ▶️ "Shh! I'm recalibrating."
Using Highlander[]
- ▶️ Master Yi huffs forcefully.
- ▶️ Master Yi huffs forcefully.
- ▶️ Master Yi yells.
- ▶️ Master Yi yells.
Shopping[]
- Buying Blade of the Ruined King
- ▶️ ▶️ "Their speed will work against them."
- ▶️ ▶️ "How many must pay for a king's loss?"
- ▶️ ▶️ "Success requires only persistence."
- Buying Infinity Edge
- ▶️ ▶️ "This will not return unbloodied."
- ▶️ ▶️ "This blade transcends its age."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Countless cries echo from this blade."
- Buying Last Whisper
- ▶️ ▶️ "Armor only defends against the imprecise."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Expose their weaknesses."
- ▶️ ▶️ "No person is without vulnerability."
- Buying Youmuu's Ghostblade
- ▶️ ▶️ "Momentum can shift in an instant."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Acceleration potential increased."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Choose your moment wisely."
Other Gameplay[]
- Placing a Ward
- 30% chance
Recall[]
- 100% chance, 10 seconds cooldown
Death[]
The quotes typed in bold play only when Highlander is active.
Movement[]
First Move[]
- ▶️ "I fight on borrowed time. Let's move."
- ▶️ "Our enemies picked the wrong side. Their mistake."
- ▶️ "You wish to join the Uprising? Prove yourself."
- ▶️ "The ink stirs beneath my skin... A battle is coming."
- ▶️ "For my city, for my family, for our freedom."
- ▶️ "I am an Inkshadow Warrior, forever marked by my path."
Moving[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "Wisdom is more than skin-deep."
- ▶️ "My future for my ink. That was the deal."
- ▶️ "We must fight as one."
- ▶️ "The struggle for freedom is never over."
- ▶️ "Together, we survive."
- ▶️ "The Uprising is small, but we are mighty."
- ▶️ "My contract is a sacrifice inked on my skin."
- ▶️ "Battles are lessons. Learning is the hard part."
- ▶️ "I will not know peace... I have accepted that."
- ▶️ "Magic sings in our blood. The ink simply listens."
- ▶️ "Watch. Learn. Then make that wisdom your own."
- ▶️ "Ink and blood both stain the soul."
- ▶️ "In me, their memory lives on."
- ▶️ "Everyone's ink is unique, and 'unique' is powerful."
- ▶️ "Resisting injustice is always just."
- ▶️ "I wish I had more time."
- ▶️ "Strike quickly, then fade into shadow."
- ▶️ "They stole our magic once. Never again!"'
- ▶️ "It's too quiet out here. I miss the city's sounds."
- ▶️ "I will leave my mark upon the world."
- ▶️ "The temple is a haven, but it is not my home."
- ▶️ "Ink unbound!"
- ▶️ "Won't see me coming."
- ▶️ "They will not stop me!"
- ▶️ "Sink into shadow!"
- ▶️ "Flow!"
Long Move[]
- 15 seconds cooldown, 2000 units
- ▶️ "We all sacrificed something important to us... the price for our power."
- ▶️ "A teacher's wisdom is earned with every scar, every mark."
- ▶️ "If my pain lends me strength, may my strength prevent the pain of others."
- ▶️ "The ink on my skin marks me as a rebel... as a threat."
- ▶️ "They have no violence great enough to change who I am."
- ▶️ "In Rabadon, you serve the Cabal or you die fighting."
- ▶️ "I gave my lifespan. Others traded freedom, independence, their soul..."
- ▶️ "Who you are is defined by what you do... when you break."
- ▶️ "I was a student of my city. Now, I am a teacher... far from home."
- ▶️ "My skin tells a story. My scars are chapters. My ink is my legend."
First Encounter[]
- First Encounter with Inkshadow Aurelion Sol
- ▶️ "Come to check in on your pawn, Aurelion Sol?"
- First Encounter with Inkshadow Kai'Sa
- ▶️ "Focus, Kai'Sa. When you call, your ink will answer."
- First Encounter with Inkshadow Udyr
- ▶️ "Udyr, I'm glad to see you! My tattoo could use a touch-up."
- First Encounter with Inkshadow Volibear
- ▶️ "The Volibear. I was warned about you."
- First Encounter with Inkshadow Yasuo
- ▶️ "I believe I have time for a sparring match, Yasuo. Draw your blade."
- First Encounter with Inkshadow Yone
- ▶️ "Do I know you, Man of Masks? You seem... so familiar..."
- First Encounter with Inkshadow skin
- ▶️ "The Uprising is coming. Have you picked your side?"
Taunt[]
- Master Yi draws a line on the ground with his blade, while his spirit dragon roars threateningly.
- ▶️ "Sometimes you must draw a line."
- Taunt Response
- ▶️ "You welcome your own humiliation."
Joke[]
- Master Yi's spirit dragon spits a glob of ink on him.
- ▶️ "No, no, no, NO--! Augh..."
- Joke Response
- ▶️ "You really should 'ink' before you speak. Hehehe..."
Laugh[]
- ▶️ Master Yi laughs.
Dance[]
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
- 25% chance
- ▶️ Master Yi shouts sharply.
- ▶️ Master Yi shouts sharply.
- ▶️ Master Yi shouts sharply.
- ▶️ Master Yi shouts sharply.
Attacking[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "For the cause!"
- ▶️ "Unwise."
- ▶️ "You're in my way!"
- ▶️ "What's your plan?"
- ▶️ "Run or fight!"
- ▶️ "You won't sway me."
- ▶️ "To the last!"
- ▶️ "Come!"
- ▶️ "Where's your leader?"
- ▶️ "The lesson begins!"
- ▶️ "You have been marked!"
- ▶️ "I won't stop."
- Attacking Rift Herald
- ▶️ "Monsters come in all forms."
- Attacking the Dragon
- ▶️ "You remind me of a spirit dragon I know."
- Attacking Baron Nashor
- ▶️ "Even the mightiest may fall!"
Ability Casting[]
Using Meditate[]
- 50% chance
- ▶️ "Weave blood and ink."
- ▶️ "Seal my wounds."
- ▶️ "Center..."
- ▶️ "A moment..."
- ▶️ Master Yi sighs deeply.
- ▶️ Master Yi meditates.
Using Wuju Style[]
- 25% chance
Using Highlander[]
- Ranking for the first time
- ▶️ "Let's teach them a lesson, shall we?"
Kills and Objectives[]
- Killing a Champion
- ▶️ "Still... it does not stop."
- ▶️ "Wiped away!"
- ▶️ "My condolences."
- ▶️ "Did I get under your skin?"
- ▶️ "The Uprising is here."
- ▶️ "Someone must lose."
- ▶️ "What have you learned?"
- ▶️ "Do not forget failure."
- ▶️ "You will be remembered."
- ▶️ "Down with the Cabal!"
- ▶️ "Foolish mistakes are a fine teacher."
- ▶️ "Another stain upon the ground."
- ▶️ "I cannot teach you common sense."
- ▶️ "Cut by cut, our enemies fall!"
- ▶️ "Blot it out!"
- ▶️ "Cannon fodder!"
- ▶️ "The battle is won, but the war rages on."
- ▶️ "The Cabal won't mourn you."
- ▶️ "Dragon take you."
- ▶️ "We are more powerful than they think."
- ▶️ "Die and learn!"
- Killing Inkshadow Aurelion Sol
- ▶️ "My time is not up yet, Aurelion Sol."
- Killing Inkshadow Kai'Sa
- ▶️ "Again! We will fix your mistakes together, Kai'Sa."
- Killing Inkshadow Udyr
- ▶️ "Udyr, your work is so good that even you cannot beat it."
- Killing Inkshadow Volibear
- ▶️ "Ugh, Volibear... The last thing I need is another spirit to deal with."
- Killing Inkshadow Yasuo
- ▶️ "I win this time, Yasuo. I assume you want a rematch?"
- Killing Inkshadow Yone
- ▶️ "Masked man, you are strangely... forgettable."
- Killing Inkshadow skin
- ▶️ "It seems you picked the wrong side."
- Scoring First Blood
- ▶️ "You fell so easily? I've only just begun."
- Scoring a Pentakill
- ▶️ "With this ink, we write our own future!"
- Stealing the Dragon
- ▶️ "That magic belongs to the people!"
- Stealing Baron Nashor
- ▶️ "We got what we came here for. They didn't."
- Destroying a Turret
- ▶️ "Painted black."
- ▶️ "Watchtower down!"
- ▶️ "Let's keep up the momentum."
- ▶️ "No stronghold is safe."
Shopping[]
- Opening the Shop
- 30% chance, 30 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "We could use these supplies. We have so little."
- ▶️ "It's been a while since I could go shopping."
- ▶️ "Are these from the city?"
Other Gameplay[]
- Leveling Up
- 30% chance
- ▶️ "Practice makes skill. Skill makes power."
- ▶️ "Experience yields many gifts."
- ▶️ "Even teachers are students."
- ▶️ "Greater power, greater burdens."
Pinging[]
- 'Assist Me'
- 30% chance, 30 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "Together!"
- 'Danger'
- 30% chance, 30 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "Be mindful."
- 'Enemy Missing'
- 30% chance, 30 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "Careful! They're missing."
- 'On The Way'
- 30% chance, 30 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "I'll be there!"
Recall[]
- 50% chance, 10 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "There's a time to advance, and a time to regroup."
- ▶️ "We fight, we recover, and we fight again. The life of a warrior."
- ▶️ "I return once more... Better than the alternative."
- ▶️ "We chip away their ivory towers, one mission at a time."
- ▶️ "I must remind myself that I am more than what I sacrificed."
- ▶️ "We cannot afford to lose anyone to carelessness."
Death[]
- ▶️ "My price... is paid..."
- ▶️ "Even ink... bleeds..."
- ▶️ "The Uprising... will not... die..."
- ▶️ Master Yi groans and exhales.
- ▶️ Master Yi groans.
- Respawn
- 75% chance
Co-op vs. AI Responses[]
- Match Start
- "We shall see which way our paths lead."
- Against Player Wukong
- "Let us test our skills, Wukong."
- Player Team Victory
- "Your skills were superior!"
- Player Team Defeat
- "GG!"
Trivia[]
- ▶️ "The goggles? Just for reading!" and "I will take an eye... as if I don't have enough already" poke fun at how such a ridiculously complex device doesn't have any special use for him whatsoever.
- ▶️ "The key to immortality? Not dying" references Highlander.
- In the Brazilian localization, one of his jokes references Woody Woodpecker.
- ▶️ "Progress requires only a blade... that produces more blades..." is the counterpart to his regular goggles jokes (how many blades can protrude from his sword for every time he uses Highlander)
- ▶️ "Those goggles are absurd" references his own goggles jokes.
- ▶️ "Shh! I'm recalibrating." resembles and likely references ▶️ "Shh! I'm meditating."
