How to beat Yasuo

Common role: Mid / Top

A mobile melee skirmisher who snowballs off kills and windwalls your key ability.

What makes Yasuo dangerous

Yasuo dashes through minions with his Q-tornado wind-up and E, and his Wind Wall (W) blocks all incoming projectiles. He is weak early but becomes a terror once he has two items and enough crit. His whole gameplan is stacking kills and knocking you up to combo his ultimate.

How to play against Yasuo

• 1Bait his Wind Wall before you commit — don't throw your important skillshot into it. Once W is on cooldown (~25s early), you have a long window to poke and all-in.
• 2Punish him for last-hitting: every time he dashes onto a minion he is out of position. Trade when he uses E to farm, not when his Q is stacked.
• 3Never fight while he has knock-up available (his own Q3 or an ally's CC) — that's the trigger for his ultimate. Space so his tornado can't reach you.
• 4Deny his snowball: he is one of the weakest champions in the game when behind. Play safe early, take CS, and he falls off relative to the enemy team.

Weaknesses to exploit

• ✓Very weak first few levels and when behind.
• ✓No hard CC of his own — needs a knock-up to combo.
• ✓Windwall has a long cooldown; once it's down he's exposed.
• ✓Squishy — burst or lock him down and he dies fast.

Abilities & how to counter them

What each of Yasuo's abilities does — and how to play around it.

• P
  Voie du vagabond

  Les chances de coup critique de Yasuo sont augmentées. De plus, Yasuo génère un bouclier quand il se déplace. Le bouclier se déclenche quand un champion ou un monstre lui inflige des dégâts.

• Q
  Tempête d'acier

  Donne un coup d'estoc, blessant tous les ennemis sur une ligne.À l'impact, octroie un effet Tempête menaçante pendant quelques secondes. Après avoir cumulé 2 effets, Tempête d'acier crée une tornade qui projette dans les airs.Tempête d'acier est considérée comme une attaque de base et est donc renforcée par les mêmes choses.

  Strong: pokes and, at 2 stacks, becomes a knock-up. Weak: short range and telegraphed wind-up — sidestep the tornado and punish when it's not stacked.

• W
  Mur de vent

  Crée un mur mobile qui bloque tous les projectiles ennemis pendant 4 sec.

  Strong: Wind Wall blocks every projectile, negating ranged poke and ults. Weak: long cooldown and fixed width — bait it out, then all-in while it's down.

• E
  Cercle tranchant

  Yasuo se rue à travers l'ennemi ciblé, infligeant des dégâts magiques. Chaque utilisation augmente les dégâts de la ruée suivante jusqu'à un montant max.Ne peut pas être réutilisé sur le même ennemi pendant quelques secondes.Si Tempête d'acier est lancée pendant cette ruée, elle donne un coup circulaire.

  Strong: dashes through minions for mobility and resets on new targets. Weak: can't dash to the same unit twice for a few seconds — catch him mid-dash with CC.

• R
  Dernier soupir

  Bondit sur un champion ennemi projeté dans les airs et lui inflige des dégâts physiques. En outre, tous les ennemis qui étaient projetés dans les airs dans la zone sont maintenus en l'air. Remplit totalement l'Impulsion mais réinitialise tous les effets cumulés de Tempête menaçante.Ensuite, pendant une durée modérée, les coups critiques de Yasuo ont une pénétration du bonus d'armure significativement augmentée.

  Strong: teleports to any airborne enemy for burst and armor shred. Weak: needs a knock-up to activate — deny knock-ups and his ult is dead.

Itemization

As an auto-attack/crit carry, armor and attack-speed slows hurt him most: Plated Steelcaps, Frozen Heart, Randuin's Omen. Bruisers can build Thornmail. Ranged laners just need to respect his all-in windows.

This guide covers Yasuo's core kit and playstyle — advice that holds up across patches.