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Written by EllieAnth — playing MLBB since 2017 (9+ years), peak rank Mythical Immortal, 1126 stars.
How to itemise Yu Zhong and, more importantly, why each item earns its slot.
Overview
Yu Zhong thrives in extended EXP Lane skirmishes where sustained engagement allows his passive, Cursing Touch, to stack Sha Residue, erupting to siphon lost enemy health while restoring his own. However, his reliance on landing physical damage abilities like Dragon Tail and Furious Dive makes him vulnerable to sustained trades before his passive triggers. This build focuses on maximizing spell vamp and health regeneration to keep Yu Zhong alive during intense dive engagements, while converting his ability damage into sustained true damage. By blending cooldown reduction, durability, and health recovery amplification, Yu Zhong can freely initiate, out-sustain opponents in teamfights, and repeatedly trigger his passive eruptions.
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Magic Boots
2
War Axe
3
Bloodlust Axe
4
Oracle
5
Queen's Wings
6
Blade of Despair
Early
Magic Boots provide early cooldown reduction, enabling Yu Zhong to cast Dragon Tail and Soul Grip more frequently during lane trades. Shorter cooldowns allow him to stack Cursing Touch faster in early skirmishes. This early mobility and ability spam give Yu Zhong stronger wave control and better positioning when leaping in with Furious Dive during early objective contests around the Turtle.
Core
War Axe is essential for Yu Zhong's sustained fighting style. As he stacks Fighting Spirit through Dragon Tail and Soul Grip, he gains escalating physical attack and spell vamp, culminating in true damage. This synergy amplifies his passive, Cursing Touch, ensuring that prolonged engagements turn heavily in his favor as his skill-based damage and health recovery continuously ramp up during teamfights.
In-game passive Unique Passive - Fighting Spirit: Dealing damage grants 12 extra Physical Attack and 2% extra Spell Vamp per second for 4s, up to 6 stacks. Deal 10% extra True Damage according to Base Damage at full stacks.####[C8This effect is reduced to 50% for Marksmen, Mages, and Supports.]
Core
Bloodlust Axe grants substantial spell vamp, directly multiplying the health recovery Yu Zhong receives when landing Dragon Tail and Furious Dive on multiple targets. Because his abilities deal physical damage across broad areas, this item works hand-in-hand with Cursing Touch, ensuring that every outer edge hit with Dragon Tail restores massive chunks of health to sustain him through heavy enemy focus.
Core
Oracle acts as a massive force multiplier for Yu Zhong's natural self-healing capabilities. Its Bless passive directly boosts all HP regen and shield effects, significantly amplifying the health restored when Cursing Touch consumes Sha Residue stacks. Equipping Oracle makes Yu Zhong exceedingly difficult to execute, transforming his innate passive recovery into an overwhelming survival tool during dives into enemy lines.
In-game passive Unique Passive - Bless: Received Shield and HP Regen effects are increased by 30%.
Late
Queen's Wings provides vital insurance during critical teamfights. When Yu Zhong drops low on health after initiating with Furious Dive, Demonize triggers to grant crucial damage reduction and emergency spell vamp. This burst of extra sustain buys him the vital seconds needed to erupt Cursing Touch stacks, turning desperate low-health situations into massive health recovery turnarounds.
In-game passive Unique Passive - Demonize: When HP drops below 40%, gains 20% Damage Reduction and 35% extra Spell Vamp for 5s (60s cooldown).
Situational
Blade of Despair turns Yu Zhong into a lethal executioner late in the game. Its Despair passive boosts physical attack against low-health targets before damage lands, pairing perfectly with the lost HP damage scaling on Cursing Touch. Finishing off weakened enemies with an enhanced Soul Grip basic attack or the sharpened edge of Dragon Tail becomes instantaneous once this item is acquired.
In-game passive Unique Passive - Despair: Dealing damage to non-Minion enemies below 50% HP increases Physical Attack by 25% for 2s (takes effect before the damage is dealt).
No build survives every draft. These are the situations where the order above should change.
Rush Bloodlust Axe before building defense to secure immediate health regeneration off ability casts like Dragon Tail. Combining early spell vamp with Cursing Touch passive recovery allows Yu Zhong to survive burst trades, heal off minion waves, and maintain laning presence against aggressive EXP lane opponents without needing to return to base.
Prioritize Oracle earlier in the build order directly after War Axe. Accelerating Oracle amplifies the innate healing from Cursing Touch and shields, giving Yu Zhong the durability needed to absorb heavy focus fire when diving with Furious Dive before securing follow-up spell vamp items like Queen's Wings.
Build Blade of Despair earlier as a late core choice to maximize burst damage. The massive physical attack increase combined with the execution damage from Cursing Touch Sha Residue eruptions allows Yu Zhong to instantly eliminate key enemy backline targets when initiating continuous teamfights.
Item recommendations come from the game's own hero data. The explanations are AI-generated from Yu Zhong's ability kit and the items' in-game passives, and are checked automatically against the item list — they never introduce an item the game does not recommend for this hero.