Build Sima Yi with the most suitable Items, Arcana and Summoner Abilities. Sima Yi Honor of Kings: known as Wei strategist, from the Three Kingdoms region and plays the role of Assassin. Sima Yi’s skill set are Quiet Whispers, shadow Stings, Barren Lands, Death Descends.

( Wei strategist )
Tier: C
Type: Assassin
Lane: Jungle
Win Rate: 49.41% | Pick Rate: 0.41% | Ban Rate: 0.04%
Sima Yi Arcana & Spell build
Summoner Abilities
Arcana
Sima Yi Items build
Starting Item
Core Items
Boots
Final Build
Spare items
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Sima Yi Abilitie Order
Priority order of skill increase for Sima Yi : Skill 2 > Skill 1.
Abilities | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
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Passive: Quiet Whispers
Skill 1: Shadow Fang
Skill 2: Barren Lands
Ultimate: Death Descends
How to play Sima Yi
Sima Yi Build Breakdown
Sima Yi should start with items like Hunting Knife and buy boots like Boots of Tranquility.
Sima Yi in Honor of Kings should choose Common Skill as Smite. The strongest Arcana build for Sima Yi are: 5 Fate, 5 Nightmare, 10 Mind’s Eye, 10 Hunter. Finally, choose the necessary equipment for Sima Yi such as: Insatiable Tome, Staves of Sorcery, Savant’s Wrath.
How much gold do you need to equip Sima Yi?
- Runeblade: 2160
- Boots of Tranquility: 710
- Insatiable Tome: 2090
- Staves of Sorcery: 2120
- Savant’s Wrath: 2300
- Breakthrough Robe: 2160
Sima Yi combo
Skill 1 + AA + Skill 2 + AA + Ultimate.
Sima Yi Team
Defeat Sima Yi
Early Game
Sima Yi should gank often to snowball the fastest in the early game. He should seek out and ambush lone targets, trying to kill them to gain more gold.
Late Game
Sima Yi will gradually lose power at this stage as teamfights become more frequent. Sima Yi will have a hard time penetrating champions’ defenses when they have a lot of armor items. The idea for this stage is to raid the backline to kill low-health targets.
Overall
Sima Yi is good at picking off and killing lone targets. He is weak in extended fights and team fights.