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Hello Summoners, my name is Talon12 or as others simply call me Talon Melee carries have always been my thing, I love playing Talon, Yasuo and Zed, I find them great to play. I would really like your feedback and constructive criticism. PM for questions or your own info ( Yasuo has a 100% skill cap and takes lots of practice to master compared to other champions). Also my thanks to jhoijhoi and her awesome guide (it helped a lot). (P.S. #1 I have written notes with more extended information and detail on the items.)(P.S. #2 I have a second build (Which I Use))

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Pros + Easy farming + Extremely low cooldowns + Really good teamfighter + Block with Wind Wall + High mobility + High skill cap + Amazing passive Way of the Wanderer + Non Mana reliant

Cons - Useless without items - Escaping relies on units - Hard to master - Magic Resistance doesn't scale - Weak early game - Squishy without proper runes - Easily killed with the right use of cc - No built in sustain -

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Tier 1: Double-Edged Sword is simple, you deal more damage, but take a little bit more. It has more benefits for melee champions so you definitely want to pick this up. Fury is much more useful than Sorcery, your Sweeping Blade has minimal AP scaling, doesn't need cooldown and your Steel Tempest only scales with your attack speed and AD.

Tier 2: The bonus AD from Brute Force is nice, Expose Weakness is not worth it because you don't deal AOE DPS

Tier 3: Martial Mastery gives you a small chunk of damage and Executioner gives a 5% damage increase to champions below 50% hp increasing your damage and heal.

Tier 4: Then Warlord gives you just a little bit more AD, I highly suggest taking Dangerous Game even though it gives mana, it's still an extremely efficient mastery.

Tier 5:
Frenzy really suits Yasuo. You will have over 100% crit chance anyway so you're going to get 15% bonus attack speed at every fight. This will scale with your Steel Tempest's cooldown. Devastating Strikes 's magic penetration is not going to waste, don't forget that your Sweeping Blade and Statikk Shiv deal magic damage! The armor penetration is of course good, as you still mainly deal physical damage.

Tier 6: A lot of people say that Havoc is bad and the bonus damage you get is so insignificant that it's not worth it. If you crit 1000 DMG, it's going to be a pretty decent bonus, especially with a fully stacked Sword of the Occult and The Warlord mastery.
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• Greater Mark of Armor Penetration: There's nothing really special about this one, it just synergizes so well with Yasuo, that's obvious right?. Yes. More Pen is always nice to have, because how over much pen you have over their armor you do that much % more damage. This can also be swapped with Greater Mark of Physical Damage giving a pretty decent boost to early damage, but also sacrificing that decent armor pen that really effect people early removing practically 90% base starting armor.

• Greater Seal of Armor: Really good against AD enemies and AP's are going to AA from time to time anyway.

• I mostly go with 9x Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist. Yasuo doesnt need cooldown so don't even think about getting Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction. Also Yasuo's magic resistance doesn't scale per level so getting it from runes is mandatory.

• Greater Quintessence of Life Steal are great to use because Blade of the Ruined King is a great item but it's sustain isn't the 'best' so by getting these, your life steal is upgraded to a decent 15%(rounded up). Greater Quintessence of Scaling Attack Damage or Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage are also other viable options, Either increasing Yasuo base AD by 6.75 early or doubling that amount for late game, these are both useful on Yasuo because of the decent early ad boost or the scaling boosts, although it take longer to feel the bonus ad take effect.

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Great tool that slows enemies by a massive amount for a noticeable length, also granting great health and armor, increasing the durability of Yasuo against physical champions.

Blood Thirster

Massive sustain and a shield to make up for the lack of the utility on Blade of the Ruined King.

Attack speed + crit chance + on hit damage, practically made for Yasuo

Banshee

Banshee veil is a very useful item to have on Yasuo it blocks the next instance of damage or crowd control, ruining the chain of some champions such as Leona's combo.

What else is there to say? This item is a must, this supplies Yasuo with half of his crit chance and a 55% power boost

Berserker's Greaves- Alacrity

I like to choose this item on Yasuo because of the bonus attack speed it gives, boosting up Yasuo's attack speed, reaching the lower CD on Steel Tempest faster, this also makes up for the lack of attack speed from Blade of the Ruined King.

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Way of The Wanderer:

Intent: Yasuo's critical strike chance is doubled, but the damage dealt by his critical strikes is reduced by 10% (25% on Steel Tempest).

Resolve:At maximum Flow, the next instance of damage coming from a champion or monster against Yasuo will first convert his Flow into an absorption shield. After 1 second, if not already depleted, the shield dissipates and Yasuo loses all his Flow



Tips & Tricks
• Buying early crit chance is good because it is doubled
• Try to stack your flow from resolve before poking the actually enemy champion to reduce the damage taken dramatically
• The higher Yasuo move speed and crit chance the more Yasuo gets from Way of the Wanderer
• Yasuo can have up to 3 full shields within 5 seconds of the first. This can be accomplished by holding the baron buff, having enhanced recall mastery and having a knock up upon back. Yasuo much charge a shield lose it back and then use Last Breath. This can efficiently give Yasuo 1410 bonus health in a 5 second period

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Steel Tempest: Yasuo strikes forward with his sword, dealing 20/40/60/80/100 (+100% AD) physical damage to all enemies in a line. Successfully landing Steel Tempest grants Yasuo Gathering Storm stacks for 10 seconds upon reaching 2 stacks of gathering storm Yasuo may cast his whirlwind ability.



Tips & Tricks
• Steel Tempest has its attack speed cap at 66%
• Yasuo's weakest state is when he has used his whirlwind as he cannot apply his CC for another 4 seconds minimum
• Try to use Steel Tempest right after an AA. This will not reset Yasuo's AA but will get the most damage out faster.
• Steel Tempest's knock up can really mess up ganks, try holding your Whirlwind for as long as you can.
• Using Steel Tempest mid Sweeping Blade will proc Yasuo's Spin a little earlier resulting in less chance of a complete miss as compared to using as you finish, where there is sometimes a wide gap left and the target does not get hurt
• Using the E Q combo while able to cast Whirlwind will make an imitation of Malphite's Unstoppable Force also boosting the circular range to 400 from the base 375
• The circle you get around you when you have two stacks of Gathering Storm is the range indicator of your whirlwind and the range you'd want to be in to be able to use your Last Breath ability

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Wind Wall: Yasuo creates a gust of wind that travels forward to form a wall 400 units away from himself. The wall slowly drifts forward over 3.75 seconds, blocking all enemy projectiles with the exception of tower hits.


Tips & Tricks
• Using Wind Wall in the jungle's narrow paths can mess up a lot of skill shots
• When going 1v1 against a marksman, use the Wind Wall between him and you, and when the enemy marksman moves him/herself through the Wind Wall to get some hits on you, use Sweeping Blade through him to rotate yourself to the other side again.
• If a fight is happening near minions, try to Sweeping Blade trough enemies and those minions as much as possible to generate more flow and to juke more skillshots
• Wind Wall can't block abilities such as Lux's Final Spark or Xerath's Arcanopulse but can block abilities such as Braum's Glacial Fissure.

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Sweeping Blade:
Yasuo dashes 475-units in the direction of the target enemy, dealing 70 / 90 / 110 / 130 / 150 (+ 60% AP) magic damage and marking them briefly. The speed of the dash scales with Yasuo's bonus movement speed. Each cast increases the next dash's base damage by 25% for 5 seconds, up to 50% bonus damage. Yasuo cannot use Sweeping Blade on an enemy that's already been marked


Tips & Tricks
• You cannot dash into an enemy that has a mark, the circle around the enemy indicates how long the timer is. The more points you put into this ability, the faster the mark dissipates.
• Use Sweeping Blade to catch up to an enemy.
• Use an AA and Sweeping Blade right after it to maximize the trading potential
• When giving chase use [sweeping blade]] through the enemy minions to catch up
• Using the E Q E combo is effective and extremely annoying to you opposing laner
• Using Steel Tempest then Sweeping Blade quickly on the same target does a very substantial amount of damage
• AA an enemy Q then E is a very efficient way of applying large amounts of damage early game in a short period of time

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Last Breath: Yasuo blinks to the nearest visible Airborne enemy champion to the cursor, instantly generating maximum Flow. Upon arriving, he suspends all airborne units within a 400-radius of his target in the air for an additional 1 second. Once he lands, Yasuo deals 200 / 300 / 400 (+ 150% bonus AD) physical damage to all nearby units and gains 50% penetration to bonus armor for 15 seconds (this affects armor from items, buffs, runes and masteries). Casting Last Breath will reset the chain on Steel Tempest.



Tips & Tricks
• Use it at the start of a fight to maximize your bonus armor penetration
• Combo Last Breath with large AOE knock-up abilities such Malphite's Unstoppable Force and Wukong's Cyclone
• No need to save your Last Breath for the "big fight". The cool down will drop down to around 25 seconds at Rank 3.
• When an enemy is knocked up, they are going stay there for a while... No need to rush and spam Last Breath to get the suppress as soon as possible, try to wait as long as you can for as many enemies to be knocked up as you can before activating Last Breath.
• If you are really comfortable about your positioning and the possibility that you can hit your whirlwind. Use it after Malphite's Unstoppable Force or Blitzcrank's Power Fist and basically get a double knock up before your Last Breath suppress!
• If you do not have a Whirlwind available try to get a quick Steel Tempest in before activating Last Breath

Yasuo dominated nearly every lane match up due to his ability to quickly farm while also doing a decent amount of poke damage to his opponent. Yasuo is extremely versatile in lane. Poking for large amounts or damage is really simple, after using Sweeping Blade twice dash to the opposing champion and activate Steel Tempest causing the opposing champion to take 50% increased dash damage and by using the spin version of Steel Tempest Yasuo does not attract minion agro, but if Yasuo is to close to the target champion he will dash out of range for the spinning attack to hit and there fore must wait a split second and activate Steel Tempest just after the dash ends. Yasuo can last his effectively in multiple different ways, some that I use are q to make sure you will absolutely get it, e to get multiple in different areas, q to kill the lines the minions form when attacking, by walking to the end of the minion line and activating Steel Tempest Yasuo can hit all 3 minions.

Yasuo is an extremely mobile champion with high damage output and decent defense. Yasuo excels in quickly removing squishy opposition. He gains large power spikes after buying small even minimal attack speed and critical strike. Yasuo excels in teamfights,either making or breaking them depending on how/if Yasuo activates his ultimate Last Breath. But one, maybe even the most important, this is no substitute for actual experience.