S14 Apr 2026 Stat Buffs
Increased skill damage
Mi Yue
(芈月) A Clash Lane Jungle Difficulty
Mage/Fighter
Formation Mage Sustained Damage/Recovery Early Game Hard
Mi Yue
芈月
A Clash Lane Jungle
Difficulty Mage/Fighter
Formation Mage Sustained Damage/Recovery Early Game Hard
Also known as
Mi Yue's Chinese name is 芈月.
芈月
Quick summary
Mi Yue is a strong Clash Lane Mage who wants to play sustained damage. Public guides recommend a build starting with Twinblades of Destruction and Frenzy.
Current patch decision guide
When to pick Mi Yue, when to avoid them, and how to adapt your build.
Mi Yue is a strong Clash Lane Mage who wants to recover health between objectives instead of needing to base. Public guide data shows a build centered on Twinblades of Destruction, Boots of Dexterity, Golden Blade, paired with Frenzy, used to soak pressure in lane and threaten side objectives. Pick her when the draft lets Mi Yue reach the targets her kit is designed to threaten; avoid when the matchup denies the windows her kit needs.
Pick Mi Yue when
- The enemy lacks reliable healing reduction, leaving sustain unchecked
- The enemy team relies on hard engage that you can read and recover from
- The enemy draft includes Mai Shiranui and Wukong, who appear in counter data as matchups Mi Yue can pressure.
Avoid Mi Yue when
- The game state demands burst rather than slow attrition
- The enemy chains crowd control faster than recovery cooldowns refresh
- The enemy team is built around answers to Sustained Damage, removing the windows Mi Yue's kit needs to perform.
Power spikes
Early game: Mi Yue is listed as an early-game threat in public guide data — convert the early window into objectives before scaling picks come online.
Lifesteal item online: trade patterns flip from neutral to favorable once sustain stacks with damage
Late game: cooldowns become short enough that Ravenous Tether influences every team fight rather than being a one-shot tool.
Build decisions
Hybrid attack-speed core
Mi Yue's official build supports her Sustained Damage and Recovery identity with a hybrid attack-speed path. Twinblades of Destruction (attack speed and movement speed), Boots of Dexterity and Golden Blade (keeps enhancing basic attacks) ramp her on-hit pressure, while Blood Clan's Grimoire (magical attack and magical lifesteal) and Insatiable Tome give her the lifesteal that fuels her drain-tank pattern.
Defense & survivability finishers
Shadow Ripper (crits boost attack speed) reinforces the snowball, while Protector's Cuirass (physical defence and health), Ominous Premonition (slows attackers), Pure Sky (temporary damage reduction), Destiny (negates fatal damage) and Blood Rage (shield) make her extremely hard to kill in extended fights. The recommended arcana are Red Moon, Reincarnation, Hunt and Mind's Eye, with Frenzy to sustain her attack-speed drain in a brawl.
Matchup logic
Versus anti-heal
Healing reduction items cut sustain by a large margin. Track when the enemy buys the anti-heal item and adjust your trade aggression accordingly.
Role positioning
Mi Yue is a Clash Lane pick whose value depends on a durable front-line presence with steady wave control. Stick to the role plan rather than forcing fights her kit is not designed to win.
Synergies
Public synergy data lists Guiguzi, Da Qiao, and Liu Bang as strong partners for Mi Yue. Plan engages around Guiguzi's setup window, then second-engage with Umbral Moon.
Common mistakes
- Forcing all-ins against opponents already wearing anti-heal — your healing barely activates.
- Using the recovery skill on the first crowd control, then dying to the follow-up chain.
- Engaging without checking enemy summoner-spell cooldowns, which often decide whether Mi Yue's commit reaches the target alive.
- Forcing solo engages instead of waiting for ally commit — Mi Yue's value compounds when the team follows up on engages.
Background
Raveness
“To capture youth, is to touch eternity.”
Highly intelligent and cunning, Mi Yue was the empress dowager of Yong. Despite her low birth, her beauty allowed her to change her destiny for the better. Hiding her powers of manipulation behind a noble and radiant exterior, Mi Yue used her beauty as a weapon to assimilate into the various areas of influence in the palace. As her youth gradually faded, her fear that her power too would disappear grew stronger and stronger as the days went on. She began to search for an elixir of life and was willing to pay any price to keep her beauty intact.
- Race:
- Human
- Height:
- 175 cm
- Style:
- Sorcery
- Nation:
- Yong
- Title:
- Yong's Empress Dowager
Source: Official Honor of Kings — canonical lore for Mi Yue.
Base Stats
Source: in-game capture (HoK Global v11.x, 2026-04-20)Survivability
3251
Max HP
150
Phys DEF
75
Mag DEF
44
HP/5s
Offense
160
Phys ATK
5%
Atk Speed
200%
Crit DMG
Utility
370
Move Speed
100
Max Mana
Ranged
Range
Build
How to choose a build
Start with the safe default badge if the draft looks normal, then swap to burst, anti-tank, sustain, or utility builds when the matchup clearly calls for it.
Tank support
Tanky teamfightBest when your team needs a sturdier front line for repeated engages.
Arcana
populares
Mage support
Utility supportBest when your team needs peel, setup, or safer fight control more than damage.
Arcana
Skills
passive Eternal Youth
Summons a shadow servant that damages enemies and restores Health to her whenever using a skill. She also gains Shadow Power that boosts her Movement Speed and healing effects.
skill1 Dark Transfer
Unleashes shadow energy, dealing damage to enemies that come into contact with it. Upon using the skill again, will shift to the shadow's location, dealing damage again. A shadow servant will be summoned if she hits an enemy after shifting.
skill2 Ravenous Tether
Releases a tether that links to the first enemy hit. Damages and slows over time. Steals Physical and Magical Attack while recovering Health.
ultimate Umbral Moon
Removes debuffs, gains Movement Speed, and becomes untargetable. Deals damage to nearby enemies upon entering and exiting the untargetable state.
Skins
3 skins
Nocturn Diviner
Shadow Play
Queen of Hearts
Playstyle
Mi Yue's win condition runs through Umbral Moon (removes debuffs, gains Movement Speed, and becomes untargetable). Poke from outside the enemy's engage range and save your escape for when assassins commit.