How to play yasuo better? (Tips/Tricks)

A Less Bean·5/2/2019, 12:06:21 PM·5 votes·2,614 views

Yasuo is a hard-to-master champion and requires alot of practice to play well, but recently i've been wondering about the tricks to better play yasuo and utilize him to the max. I have pretty decent mechanics on yasuo, and i know some tips and tricks but i've been struggling with fighting against a ranged champion or a champion that can poke well and attacks that the windwall cannot block such as area of effect damage, lasers, ...

So how do i play aggro, take less poke damage from range, and close in better on opponents and get out using the dash in yasuo's arsenal

4 Comments

Hardstück5/2/2019, 2:30:07 PM2 votes

Don't play yasuo Best advice trust me!

psuedo meta5/2/2019, 1:42:24 PM1 votes

MY best advice is learn how to not shove every wave as yasuo. This is more of a universal rule but... Only shove when you have a plan to roam/ ward/ back/enemy laner is elsewhere/invade jg. By learning to freeze or keep lane middle with yas it opens up more trading and safer lane opportunities. by keeping the wave in the middle u can easily engage/disengage with the minions. Freezing is also a very good thing on yasuo, because normally you only want to freeze a lane when your ahead, but your yasuo...your ahead cuz he wasn't banned and u picked him. Besides this just watch more general/advance yasuo tips and tricks on youtube, maybe see if he has any animation cancels that can make ur micro go smoother?

Ohhhh and since ur going to be learning how to freeze might aswell learn to to avoid the wave crashing into your tower/ how to farm under tower.

research every lane matchup you encounter. Learn your strengths learn their strengths learn your weakness learn theirs. learn your cooldowns, learn theirs.

besides all that you are yasuo so you are strong early so you will want to shove hard for first wave because you will be trading to get the lead, so you quickly get rid of their first wave as much as you can while you trade them, allowing you to hopefully level up before them but decreasing the amount of minion damage when you trade them, two birds one stone. If you early game goes well you can later just keep the enemy laner zoned out of farm gold and experience, further pushing your lead. and then you can look forward to roaming/ jg invading--so you shove out first.

Spicy Rice5/2/2019, 3:27:18 PM1 votes

Might I suggest https://www.reddit.com/r/YasuoMains/

the subreddit by yasuo mains, for yasuo mains.

We have a lot of very experience and high elo yasuo players, as well as guides to play him, discussion on runes and items, and many game play videos to see cool plays and different play styles

Kai Guy5/2/2019, 5:13:12 PM1 votes

This should not be downvoted as its 100% the kind of discussion gameplay boards is supposed to be used for.

In addition to mechanical mastery I would recommend learning multiple item build paths for Yas, adapting to the game rather then cookie cuttering it will help.

Get a good feel for wind wall, cast it smart and you can use it multiple times in a fight. Know when to 3rd Q as a skillshot and when to use it at the end of an E. Don't mindlessly ulti every time you land Q knockup. Preserve your passives shield when you can.

Folks that ignore his wall are just counterplay, be aware of what abilitys it cant block.

Edit. Follow Spicy Rice advice and look at the reddit page. Your going to get a lot of tilted Yas haters on Riots boards.