HOW TO GET GOOD

Meowing Kitty·Jul 17, 2016·1 votes·534 views

How do i get good at yasuo? I feel that my mechanics are pretty good with yasuo (200k Mastery), i usually win lane in ranked, then i fall off! it always seem to go this way, and its not because of bad teammates! Someone please help me! I throw, yet i dont know how i threw. If you look at my match history, dont mind the past few games (High ping Hawaii).

4 Comments

LockeTheHunterJul 17, 20162 votes

http://puu.sh/q5bzU/46557b180e.jpg

I'm too lazy to go out and actually watch your games but based off your OPGG alone it seems you put good work in as yasuo and have a positive winrate, your recent losses might just be a streak of bad luck, your overall winrate is 61% and that's very good.

If you haven't already check out some high elo yasuo players, ArKaDaTa for one.

Go to youtube and type in n3ac3y, watch his "Masters coaching Yasuo" video, it's a bit outdated but it'll help.

Die less though.

TehNACHOJul 17, 20162 votes

Learn how to play the objective game?

I've found Yasuo players are phenomenal duelists and terrible strategists - I should know, I was a Yasuo main back in S4. Just start considering macro decisions more, like which towers to focus down or when to group with the team for Epic Monster fights or when to split push or so on. I don't mean to insult in any way with this next statement so excuse me if it's phrased poorly or in that way but, you're probably just thinking in an extremely limited way. You know how to play within the moment, Yasuo's kit is designed to complement that, and there's nothing wrong with that in and of itself. If it becomes all you think of, if you need to justify to us you're good at Yasuo because you spend a lot of time on him but still aren't getting the results you want, it just means your way of thinking is wrong. Back up, either play a simpler champion or don't overcommit to Yasuo's micro mechanics, and figure out not how to win fights, but how to win the game.

Meowing KittyJul 18, 20161 votes

Since you were a Yasuo main, is it worth getting first blood in the first few mins by burning both summoners? I can usually guarantee getting it with flash+ignite

I dont know how to end a game .-. (Edit)

TehNACHOJul 18, 20161 votes

Depends on the lane really. If the opponent must snowball, it's fine, just remember to play safe after that due to the lack of flash. If the opponent is still useful even from behind, meh, there's better targets to lock down, it may end up tricking you into overextending for no strategic gain. There are some matchups like TF where you should easily be able to dominate the lane without burning summoners even once, and there are matchups like Lissandra where you probably shouldn't have gone with Ignite in the first place. With that said however, when you bring Ignite, you are bringing ignite to win lane. It doesn't have the utility like Exhaust, Barrier, Cleanse, or TP could all grant post laning phase and unless you are 1v1ing a lot come late game (something that's much more difficult to predict, mind you) or you don't want to commit to Executioner's Calling to take down a healer, Ignite doesn't do much else than that. if you see a lane you know you can snowball against and shut down, bring Ignite and win lane hard. If you see a lane you know you can't hold down and you can see the game being decided by team fights rather than small skirmishes, probably should just lay off Ignite and use a utility Summoner Spell.

Now this is a looooooooooong topic when it comes to winning the game. Normally I'd refer to you Trick2g since he basically preaches the objective game, but he's a Jungle/Top player and I'm not sure if the skills used to carry games in those roles would apply especially to Yasuo. The (somewhat) shorter version is this:

It's not a bad thing to take advantage of winning fights. It's a bad thing to commit to fights that do not make sense. It's largely contextual, again, but they're usually really obvious. For example, randomly catch someone in the middle of the river and Dragon isn't gonna spawn for another 3 minutes? Poke away if you could and disengage, get the kill if you can win the duel quickly and without any significant costs, but don't flash in ignite and try to all in right then and there. You are now without your summoner spells away from the lanes and towers and you can't even get dragon out of it, it doesn't matter that you won the duel and have a bit more pocket money to work with, that fight was dumb and learning how to play the macro game is recognizing why that fight was dumb.
Everything you do needs to have an end goal. You want to play aggressively in lane? Make it a goal to either crush the opposing laner through efficient fights (say you only use one summoner while you crash through two of the opponent's summoners), zoning (it makes no sense to play aggressively in lane if you don't know how to starve the opponent as well), and/or destroying their tower long before they get to yours. Want to gank a side lane? You're an AD/AS champion and can easily chew through towers, remember to sit in the lane after a successful gank and shove the lane to tower; you might just be able to take it if you and your teammates work together. Think of it like this, you don't farm just to farm, you farm to buy items and scale up into a threat; there's a bigger goal to attain than just having done the action itself. If you fight, you aren't fighting just to fight, you fight so you can leverage an advantage from the fight. If you roam, you won't get anything out of just leaving the lane, you need to have actually done something while you left.

These two are the biggest principles of playing the macro game. If you learn what actions are dumb to overcommit to, it protects you from accidental throws and in general gives you a lot more resources to work with when it actually matters. Imagine if instead of burning both of your summoners in the middle of a river for no objectives, your summoners were a major factor in winning a 3v3 bot lane that turns into your team getting both a tower and a dragon, for example. If you learn how to turn random possibly advantageous actions into clear and definitely advantageous goals, you can snowball the absolute hell out of even the tiniest actions and turn into an actual monster by the end of the game.