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How to beat Yasuo.

Alutrosity·8/22/2016, 4:57:08 PM·3 votes·1,467 views

While it's true that Yasuo is a powerful skirmishing assassin hyper-carry, there are a plethora of champions who are capable of ruining his day.

Darius: can pull him in, use his Q to out-trade him, and bleed him like a pig with the amount of damage he dishes out.

Wukong: the same reason he beats Riven. He has a hard engage, armor penetration, and benefits extraordinarily well from youmuu's and death's dance when fighting other AD champs. I have blown up many a Yasuo by going this build route in the mid-lane.

Swain: Yasuo can't come near Swain without getting E+Q'd which shreds his health down by a significant amount, and come mid-game it is next to impossible to win any sort of trade. In the same way Yasuo benefits from dashing into your own minion-wave, Swain's ult benefits from him walking into yours as he has more healing sources. Also, the last time a Yasuo tried dashing into me, I just dropped my root ontop of myself, then enjoyed watching him squirm like the little shit he is as my ravenous flock of birds pecked his eyeballs out.

There are plenty of other champs who can trade quite easily with Yasuo and come out ontop.

TL;DR Yasuo loses to bruiser champs. Now stop bitching and learn to play them.

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Critkeeper8/22/2016, 5:05:27 PM3 votes

Trynd can dive him under turret without allied minions, giving yasuo no dash spam.

ActivatingEMP8/22/2016, 6:29:08 PM2 votes

I've found staying at the fountain to be extremely successful

asamu8/22/2016, 6:14:34 PM1 votes

Actually, Swain isn't great vs Yasuo. Swain is AWFUL pre-6, and that's when Yasuo is strong, so he can pressure super hard + wave clear and deny farm early, hit 6 first, then dive swain before swain hits 6, and if Swain falls behind at all in the match up, it's really tough for him to come back due to the constant pressure that Yas can put out; the poke is nice and all, but if Yas commits, losing 1/3 of his HP doesn't matter, and Swain won't win any extended trades early on, and can't get away from Yas if he goes all in and E's through a minion to get to the Swain to save using it on swain for chasing. That said, if swain gets the lead with some jungle pressure, he can do just fine, though he'll never kill the Yasuo unless the Yas tries to fight him when he can't.

Renek, Illaoi, Jax, Shen, Yorick, Udyr, Riven, Maokai, Irelia, Pantheon, Rammus, Kayle, Nasus, Olaf, Malph, Poppy, Morde, Garen, Gnar, and Fiora should all have pretty decent or favorable match ups vs Yasuo.

For most, it's just about surviving the first few levels, then out-scaling him for the mid game, when Yasuo is actually pretty weak. Shen can duel yas pretty easily once you get sunfire. Renek can do it starting level 1 if you went fervor and started W, but it's a bit risky, since Yas has some poke with his Q. Irelia can fight Yas pre-6, then outscales him; Yas can't kill Rammus, Nasus, Olaf, Malph, Poppy, shen, or Morde if they play reasonably safe, and once they get their first item or so, he can't fight them at all. Garen just runs at Yas and kills him if yas tries to do anything.

The reality is that Yas loses pretty much every lane if he doesn't get a sizable lead early on, so if you just play safe and don't get cheesed early, you'll beat him with most standard top lanes. Ekko probably has a hard match up against Yas, but that's because Ekko is actually pretty weak in the 1v1 pre-6 and is vulnerable to people that can stick to him reasonably well, like Irelia, Jax, Renek, and Shen, etc...

Avienal8/22/2016, 6:34:13 PM1 votes

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While it's true that Yasuo is a powerful skirmishing assassin hyper-carry, there are a plethora of champions who are capable of ruining his day.

Darius: can pull him in, use his Q to out-trade him, and bleed him like a pig with the amount of damage he dishes out.

Wukong: the same reason he beats Riven. He has a hard engage, armor penetration, and benefits extraordinarily well from youmuu's and death's dance when fighting other AD champs. I have blown up many a Yasuo by going this build route in the mid-lane.

Swain: Yasuo can't come near Swain without getting E+Q'd which shreds his health down by a significant amount, and come mid-game it is next to impossible to win any sort of trade. In the same way Yasuo benefits from dashing into your own minion-wave, Swain's ult benefits from him walking into yours as he has more healing sources. Also, the last time a Yasuo tried dashing into me, I just dropped my root ontop of myself, then enjoyed watching him squirm like the little shit he is as my ravenous flock of birds pecked his eyeballs out.

There are plenty of other champs who can trade quite easily with Yasuo and come out ontop.

TL;DR Yasuo loses to bruiser champs. Now stop bitching and learn to play them.

Did you forget he mostly is in mid lane and the majority of 'bruiser' champions are always top lane and if they were to trade with the mid laner, the mid laner would likely be in a bit of trouble against top laner champions like 'other bruisers or tank' who could constantly use superior tank power, out sustain power or plain bully deny CS measures to ruin that 'previously mid laner champion'. Plus in regular mode matches or maybe solo que running matches, people would not consider trading lanes at the beginning to counter the Yasuo because they don't want to be in a easy position to be ganked easily by the jungler, again be in a plain and simple 'bad role match up' and be stuck in bad CS land. Even if they could end up feeding the Yasuo instead if they stuck to mid lane.

If his kit was forced to be less mid lane strong and forced him to stick in the top lane (such as being easy pickings on mage champions in early game), then his ridiculous utility wouldn't be as bad as it currently is.

Plus you forgot a few things:

Darius: Just because Darius can reel him in, it won't stop Yasuo from simply Dashing thru him or any minions next to him when darius pulls him in (plus any other minions basically causing Yasuo's minions and Yasuo himself to be between darius and darius's minions (giving him free E setup, plus you can't exactly trip the Q early). Yasuo's shield would give him plenty of time with its 1 second duration to mitigate the damage if Darius quickly uses W or autos him and without any real stuns, Darius can't stop him from E escaping.

Swain: He may be able to keep mana sustain with his silly passive, you'd have to be highly used to Yasuo's own fixed distance dashing to time your root perfectly, otherwise a 'smart' Yasuo player would know to avoid using E dash recklessly to instead 'bait' you to use the stun then E dash out of the way, or simply use it to get out of range on where you could put it. It helps that alot of Swain's kit also is non projectile based (namely damage field lay outs), but Yasuo can still use a well timed wind wall to mitigate part of Swain's ultimate usually long enough for him to escape.

Wu'kong: would probably be the only proper argument because he is also a scummy melee champion cause of a annoying scummy kit. That allows him easy escapes, Numerous ways to engage (W, E and R specificially on the latter) and has the bonus of a Q that lets him armor shred to make those burst in initates even more silly. Course i really feel another champion fits the role perfectly on being able to make Yasuos sweat.

Namely "Fiora", her W acts as a massive counter against Yasuo's Q tornado and even more so if you can time it to when he has it charged and tries to E dash on top of you to try and do it behind you then you can stun him and proceed to Q and E all over him to melt his hp insanely, literally every time i played Fiora and fought Yasuos whether in 3vs3 or in top lane 5vs5, i manage to melt them till the 'Phantom dancer Tank Yasuo build came about and utterly ruin my ability to burst him during those stun windows or they just plain ignored trying to use Q tornado on me till i was stunned someway else.' It also helps that Fiora's Q can let her also reposition fairly effectively and could likely take advantage of when Yasuo uses E to quick chase him and hit him with the Q poke, especially if timed right and a weakpoint mark was what caused him to try and back off, it also helps that Yasuo is 'not' invincible during E dashing which makes actions like these all the more possible. It also helps you can proc the mark then hit R and quickly E and Q to hit 2 more marks almost instantly which leads to a massive hp nuke to many kinds of champions to grant her that powerful counter against tank'ish top laners due to the powerful % hp kill she can pull per mark and done properly, she could proc 5 marks in less then 10 seconds or so which by end game is likely about half the hp or more off any target by the % kill alone, not counting the regular damage from attacks, the healing she gets from it and the constant move speed % bonus she'll have up to make her run quite fast during the entire combo.

so1dier8/22/2016, 7:02:59 PM1 votes

i usually melt him fast with lissandraLissandra

Papa Slothy8/22/2016, 9:25:45 PM1 votes

yasuo has counterplay in the way he plays aswell, he has no escapes which means he's open to ganks, if you watch for where he can dash to you, you can back off and then reengage with cc for harass

Zaghyr8/23/2016, 5:07:04 AM1 votes

Swain is a terrible pick against Yasuo, unless that Yasuo is horrible.

Buff Jax please8/22/2016, 5:58:10 PM1 votes

In what elo does Wukong beat Riven?