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
  浪人道

  クリティカル率が増加する。また、移動距離に応じてシールドがチャージされ、敵チャンピオンおよび中立モンスターからダメージを受けると発動する。

• Q
  抜刀

  指定方向に突きを放ち、直線上の敵すべてにダメージを与える。このスキルが命中するとヤスオは「つむじ風」のスタックを数秒間得る。スタックが2つたまるとヤスオは風を身にまとい、次の「抜刀」と同時に「つむじ風」を放つ。「つむじ風」は指定方向に吹き抜け、触れた敵ユニットをノックアップさせる。「抜刀」は通常攻撃扱いのため、通常攻撃と同じように強化される。

  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
  風殺の壁

  4秒間持続し、少しずつ前進する風の壁を生み出す。敵のあらゆる発射物は、この壁に触れると消滅する。

  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
  風薙ぎ

  指定した敵を通り過ぎるようにダッシュし、魔法ダメージを与える。発動ごとに、その後のダッシュで与えるダメージが増加する(上限あり)。同一の敵に対しては数秒間、このスキルを再発動できない。このスキルのダッシュ中に「抜刀」を発動すると、円状に斬撃を繰り出す。

  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
  鬼哭啾々

  ノックアップ状態の敵チャンピオンのもとへブリンクし、空中で斬撃を繰り出して物理ダメージを与える。また、範囲内のノックアップ中の敵をさらにノックアップさせる。発動と同時に波動ゲージが満タンになるが「つむじ風」のスタックをすべて消費する。少しの間、クリティカル時に対象の物理防御増加分を大きく貫通する。

  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.