Man. What a noob strategy. Last night I was playing a game where this guy was trolling so hard with yuri. He was floating above on of my teams turrets where heavy battle was going on, and constantly dropping mines on the ground right above it, and convieniently out of range. This was crippling for the bots that were on my team, and it forced me to abandon pushing to deal with the Yuri trolling mines in front of the turret. The mines also clipped behind one another, making it seem like 1 mine, when in fact, is was more, and was basicly an instant kill every time. Those mines are such a troll $#!+ tactic.

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The best method there is to one of two things:

1) Kill Yuri. Can be very easy with Leon or a Froggy G with max stun on Splash Dash (stun Yuri, he falls right in front of your turret).

If that's not an option (Yuri just runs):

2) Focus your attack on stopping his droids from getting to the turret he's guarding, while pushing in the lane he's not guarding, if there is one.

Also keep in mind that Yuri's mines can easily be gotten rid of with either Froggy G's Splash Dash, Voltar's drones, or Lonestar's Bull Rush. Just one of those can easily shut down Yuri's path disruption, it's rather annoying for mine-build Yuris.

That's not trolling, that's called controlling a zone, and Yuri is good at it.

How do you counter it?

You can go around, going for the other turret. This is viable on most maps, as there is usually a second turret you can bother if Yuri's unreachable.

You can harass Yuri. On some maps, he can be reached pretty easily if he does this, so run him off. When he's hard to reach, Coco's Ball Lightning, Lonestar's Missiles or Bull, Clunk's missiles, Froggy's splash dash, or Leon's slow sword can help by knocking him down. Another Yuri can harras him as well.

You can take advantage of the fact that you know where Yuri is and just gank his teammates for a while. At worst, you'll be 3 on 2. Yes, this requires a bit of coordination, but Yuri's ignoring his teammates if he's only laying mines in one spot.

You can widdle the turret down from a distance if he's doing it defensively. Lonestar's bouncing dynamite, Derple's Nuke, Clunk's missiles, all can reach pretty far and will ignore the mines.

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There are definitely troll Yuri's out there, but if you and your crew are sticking your ground and fighting in one area, and that Yuri is doing bomb runs on you, that's not trolling. That's Yuri just doing his thing.

Besides I love playing those guys. They're clogging up a lane with mines? Then push the other one. It may be tempting to run back when you get the warning buzzers of an attacked turret going off, but you will shred their turret faster then Yuri does yours, I guarantee it.

Wait, does Froggy G's Splash Dash no longer set off Yuri's mines? I was playing a game the other day where Yuri was using the 3-mini-mines, and they never seemed to go off until after Splash Dash ended, hitting me for full damage.

Yeah that has happen to me several times. I stopped splash dashing them all together.


I find most Yuri's that focus on mines(especially mini mines) are super easy to kill. On the rare occasion they actually know how to play, but should still be easy to take out if you jump him. I used to love jumping and bulling them into the wall, then using my boost jump thing and dropping 3 dynamite on them. Every class can counter a yuri sitting against a wall dropping mines.

They'll still hurt you if the explosion is set off while splash dash ends, so you need to end in a safe area (or hit something after you blow up the last mine).

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No its glitchy, or at least it was the last time I tried it. You can be far into the "safe zone" and still get hit by them causing instant death. There have been several times I've had to run and seen a single mine in the way of my retreat, I splash dash through it and get hit for 78*3 dying instantly.

I'm just glad Yuri players can no longer combine "mine trolling" with base healing. I remember more than one match where my team would destroy all of the enemy turrets within the first 3 minutes, but the match would drag out to 10+ because of that tactic.

You say it's a noob strategy, and yet it worked on you? That doesn't sound like a noob strategy to me. That's like saying Froggy g's dash is a noob strategy. Every thing has a counter you just have to adjust your style to counter act the other players.