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
  Via del vagabondo

  La probabilità di colpo critico di Yasuo aumenta. Inoltre, quando Yasuo si muove accumula punti che lo portano a ottenere uno scudo. Lo scudo si attiva quando subisce danni da un campione o da un mostro.

• Q
  Tempesta d'acciaio

  Scatta in avanti, danneggiando tutti i nemici lungo una linea.Sul colpo, Tempesta d'acciaio conferisce una carica di Tempesta incombente per qualche secondo. A 2 cariche, Tempesta d'acciaio rilascia una raffica che lancia in aria.Tempesta d'acciaio conta come un attacco base e cresce nello stesso modo.

  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
  Muro di vento

  Crea un muro di vento che blocca tutti i proiettili nemici per 4 secondi.

  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
  Colpo di taglio

  Scatta attraverso il nemico bersaglio, infliggendo danni magici. Ogni lancio aumenta i danni dello scatto successivo, fino a una quantità massima.L'abilità non può essere lanciata di nuovo sullo stesso nemico per qualche secondo.Se lanciata durante lo scatto, Tempesta d'acciaio colpirà in cerchio.

  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
  Ultimo respiro

  Appare vicino a un campione nemico in aria infliggendo danni fisici e mantenendo in aria i nemici già in aria nell'area. Conferisce il massimo del Flusso ma azzera le cariche di Tempesta incombente.Per un moderato periodo di tempo, i colpi critici di Yasuo ottengono una grande quantità di penetrazione armatura bonus.

  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.