She’s super popular, super fun to play, and is seeing play at all skill brackets.
I definitely think she needs some fine tuning – she somehow STILL has a 52/53% winrate in low/mid elo despite REPEATED nerfs patch after patch – but unlike champs like Zeri or K’Sante I don’t think she’s inherently unbalanceable.
She’s had a positive effect on the jungle meta, and obtained a bunch of new OTPs. To me at least, she’s a highlight of 2023, which otherwise had the very forgettable Milio and Naafiri, the latter of which is actively OP at low elo and yet hardly anyone plays her (3% pickrate in silver/gold even with a 54% winrate last patch).
Is she the most positive champion release since Renata?
Yes actually, we saw irrefutable proof of that. At least before her rework, there was an unusually strong correlation between a Yuumi player’s winrate, and how many games the player practiced her. Her dominance in pro play while she had 45% winrate in soloqueue was further proof of that. You’d see pro players win trades, tank 99% of their own health bar, and reattach safely without ever allowing CC to touch them.
Any redditor still debating this needs to log off.