Zeal is part of your first core item and grants you with AS, crit chance and MS. All things that are very useful for Yasuo. Ideally, you'll want to rush Statikk Shiv as fast as possible, but if you feel you need some buffed up sustain to stay in lane against constant harass, get a Vampiric Scepter early on. Boots can be built whenever you feel like it early on.


Yasuo's core damage items synergize incredibly well with Steel Tempest and Sweeping Blade. Statikk Shiv provides you with a total of 40% critical chance due to Yasuo's passive, and the passive on this item highly synergizes with Sweeping Blade as the lightning procs will refresh much faster via dashing, giving some decent magical burst and DPS. Infinity Edge is Yasuo's "big" purchase and it will increase his damage output ten-fold. The heavy AD, crit damage boost and critical chance while make Yasuo tear things apart with his Steel Tempest. Upon completing this item, you should have 100% crit chance. Brilliant! Mercury's Treads can be built as needed during mid game.


Using the massive amount of Lifesteal through your shields can keep you a live for insane amounts of time in duels or skirmishes. Last Whisper is purchased to eat through Tanks without using your ultimate, and is a great overall damage booster. Blade of the Ruined King is a utility item as it provides on-hit effects, AS and a small amount of AD, as well as an amazing active effect to soften people up for chasing, or help you escape. Guardian Angel is a general defensive item to give you a second chance when you die. Try as hard as you can to not die with this, to keep the threat of you coming back from the grave alive, and sell it for another defensive item when it is consumed.


Ravenous Hydra is a replacement for Blade of the Ruined King is you'd prefer to splitpush. The main reason this item is awesome is for the active, which is essentially an auto attack reset in an AoE, for some additional burst. Trinity Force can be built if you are insanely fed, but otherwise I feel like it takes too long to build. All of the components help Yasuo a lot, however. The MS from the Phage is great for refreshing your Flow as well as chasing, and Sheen does apply to Steel Tempest, but only to the first enemy struck. Trinity Force is an overall amazing item for Yasuo, but a tad too expensive to be core when it's competing with Infinity Edge. Black Cleaver is a very situational purchase for when the enemy team is stacking a lot of armor, and your team has too many AD champions.


As Yasuo primarily fights mages at mid lane, an early Hexdrinker will be a very common build. You don't really need it's upgrade but it's there should you feel like building it. The Hexdrinker's passive alone makes it worth. Randuin's Omen gives you some health padding and a great amount of armor. The passive and active are amazing to hinder enemy AD's from damaging you, and is useful to help you survive AD Bruiser focus, or to duel and kill ranged carries with ease. Banshee's Veil is great for preventing yourself from being caught out as easily. It's heavy MR and shield also hamper champions like Nidalee and Xerath from harassing you further in lane game sieges.

Enemy Creeps

As mentioned a few times before, enemy creeps are Yasuo's best friends. Clones, Jungle, and other summoned enemy units also fulfill this role perfectly. They provide Yasuo with free dashes for positioning and regaining Flow, and if possible, you should always try to have enemy creeps nearby for added mobility in skirmishes and team fights.

Solo Queue!

Playing Yasuo in Solo Queue is completely different than playing him with a partner or coordinated team. You have to be very reactive on your own and take any opportunities and openings to get kills. You'll likely have to take any engagement you can off silly things like Lee Sin's Dragon's Rage or Thresh's Flay to trigger your ultimate. Solo Queue requires more cheese and catching people out instead of team fighting to win with Yasuo, and as such I personally wouldn't recommend using him for Solo Queue ranked unless you are very persuasive to your team to pick Yasuo-friendly initiators.

Wind Wall

Wind Wall appears to begin blocking projectiles as soon as it starts coming out of the ground. This means that you can be very clutch and block skill shots nearly split second before they reach you. Remember though, the cooldown is very unforgiving and having it readily available is a threat to champions that rely on a single ability to engage, or who have to use their entire skillshot combo to kill you. Using it to block unimportant skills or combos can get you killed while it is on cooldown.

Last Breath

Yasuo's ultimate has a few eccentricities. First, you don't actually have to target anybody with the ability. You can merely click R if you are in range of an airborne target. The cursor's position while influence which enemy you will appear next to when you ult if you hit multiple targets. The bonus armor penetration from using this ability functions differently from the armor penetration from Last Whisper in that it only effects bonus armor. It also is applied before other percentage penetrations, meaning that the formula when using this and Last Whisper would be to remove 50% of their bonus armor, and THEN subtract 35% of their remaining total armor. Using Last Breath will stop the trajectory of any knock backs used to trigger it, meaning you can actually mess up Vayne's Condemn stun if you use your ult on it. Lastly and very oddly, Last Breath appears to keep going and dealing it's damage, even if Yasuo dies during the animation. If you know you're gonna die and can ult, might as well!