S14 Apr 2026 Stat Buffs
Increased skill damage
Mi Yue
(芈月) B Clash Lane Jungle Difficulty
Mage/Fighter
Formation Mage Sustained Damage/Recovery Early Game Hard
Mi Yue
芈月
B 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 Boots of Dexterity. Watch for tier-relevant counters in the enemy draft.
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 Boots of Dexterity, Sparkforged Dagger, Golden Blade, used to soak pressure in lane and threaten side objectives. Pick her when the draft lets Mi Yue reach targets that aren't built around the enemy's key counters; 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 already drafted Dharma and Dian Wei, who counter data identifies as direct answers to Mi Yue.
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
Default clash lane path
Public build references for Mi Yue recommend Boots of Dexterity, Sparkforged Dagger, Golden Blade, Blood Clan's Grimoire, Insatiable Tome, and Twilight Stream. Use this as the baseline mage plan before adapting to the enemy draft.
Situational item pivots
Spare options listed in build data include Overlord's Platemail, Sage's Sanctuary, and Enigma - Moon Goddess. Treat these as situational swaps when the default path is not enough — for example, swapping in defensive items against burst comps or penetration items against stacked armor.
Matchup logic
Versus key counters
Dharma is flagged in counter data as a direct answer to Mi Yue. Read the enemy's primary win condition, time Mi Yue's key cooldowns to the moment that condition activates, and don't pre-commit when the matchup answer is still up.
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.
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.
- Ignoring Dharma on the enemy team when picking fights — counter data flags them as direct answers, so engage timing must respect their cooldowns.
- 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
Current patch rates
Source: Camp APIClash Lane
- Win rate
- 49.8%
- Pick rate
- 0.7%
- Ban rate
- 0.7%
Rates are role-specific snapshots from the current Honor of Kings Camp data refresh.
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.
Mage support
Utility supportBest when your team needs peel, setup, or safer fight control more than damage.
arsenais
Mage support
Utility supportBest when your team needs peel, setup, or safer fight control more than damage.
Mage support
Utility supportBest when your team needs peel, setup, or safer fight control more than damage.
Tank support
Tanky teamfightBest when your team needs a sturdier front line for repeated engages.
populares
Mage support
Utility supportBest when your team needs peel, setup, or safer fight control more than damage.
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
Stay near the carry and time shields/heals to overlap the enemy's damage window, not before.