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
  浪客之道

  亚索的暴击几率提升。此外，亚索在移动时会为一层护盾攒能。护盾会在他受到来自英雄或野怪的伤害时触发。

• Q
  斩钢闪

  向前出剑，呈直线造成伤害。在命中时，斩钢闪会获得一层旋风烈斩效果，持续数秒。在积攒2层旋风烈斩效果后，斩钢闪会形成一阵能够击飞敌人的旋风。斩钢闪被视为普通攻击，并且可以从所有作用于普攻的东西上获得收益。

  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
  风之障壁

  形成一个持续4秒的气流之墙，来阻挡敌方的飞行道具。

  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
  踏前斩

  向目标敌人突进，造成魔法伤害。每次施法都会提升你的后续突进的伤害，直到抵达上限。在若干秒内无法对相同敌人重复施放。如果在突进的过程中施放斩钢闪，那么斩钢闪就会呈环状出剑。

  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
  狂风绝息斩

  闪烁到一个浮空的敌方英雄身边，造成物理伤害，并使范围内的所有浮空的敌人滞留在空中。获得满额的剑意值，但会重置旋风烈斩的层数。在接下来的若干秒里，亚索的暴击会获得显著的额外护甲穿透加成值。

  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.