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
  낭인의 길

  야스오의 치명타 확률이 증가합니다. 또한, 야스오는 이동할 때마다 보호막이 충전되며, 챔피언이나 몬스터로부터 피해를 입으면 보호막이 발동됩니다.

• Q
  강철 폭풍

  전방으로 내질러 일직선 상의 모든 적에게 피해를 입힙니다.적중 시, 몇 초간 폭풍 구름 효과가 1회 중첩됩니다. 2회 중첩되면 강철 폭풍 스킬이 회오리바람을 발사하여 공중으로 띄워올립니다.강철 폭풍은 기본 공격으로 간주되어 같은 효과가 적용됩니다.

  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
  바람 장막

  4초간 모든 적의 투사체를 막아주는 움직이는 벽을 생성합니다.

  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
  질풍검

  대상 적을 뚫고 돌진하여 마법 피해를 입힙니다. 이후 사용할 때마다 돌진의 피해량이 증가하며 최대치에 도달하면 더 이상 증가하지 않습니다.몇 초 내에는 동일한 대상에게 재사용할 수 없습니다.돌진 도중 사용할 경우, 강철 폭풍이 원형으로 타격합니다.

  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
  최후의 숨결

  공중에 뜬 적 챔피언에게 점멸하여 물리 피해를 입히고, 해당 지역에서 공중에 떠 있는 모든 적을 공중에 붙들어둡니다. 기류가 최대치로 차는 대신, 폭풍 구름의 중첩이 모두 초기화됩니다.이후 몇 초 동안 야스오의 치명타에 높은 방어구 관통력이 추가로 적용됩니다.

  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.