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Spells:

Exhaust

Flash

Items

Starting Items

Struggling in lane?

Pick one (CORE)

Boots

Definitely buy this

Next buy (lifesteal)

Other great items

Tank items

Typical final build

Ability Order

Yasuo Passive Ability

Introduction

Hi, I'm a Yasuo main bring you this guide. is by far the most fun champion to play. Requiring a lot of skill, pulling off great plays just feels great.

This guide will show you item builds and tips + tricks.

Hope you enjoy!

Pros / Cons

Pros

+High mobility with
+Can easily dodge skill shots with
+High damage with his critical strike being doubled. Also meaning less items for 100% crit.
+Good trade due to his damaging blocking shield (just beware of minion aggro)
+ is extremely efficient against those who has skill shots

Cons

-Vulnerable to crowd control
-Squishy
-High skill cap
-Vulnerable without minions
-A fully stack (tornado) alone is hard to land on an enemy

Runes

Marks and Quintessence: I take all and . This gives me 29% attack speed. More attack speed means a lower cooldown, which makes stacking a tornado shorter. Also because of this much attack speed, you could buy a defensive upgrade to boots instead of .

Seals: For seals I take because is quite squishy, so this will help. Against an AD matchup, taking might be better.

Glyphs: For glyphs I take . This is pretty standard. What else could you take? Attack speed? Nah, that will make you extremely vulnerable. It is also optional to take the non scaling if against an AP matchup.

Masteries

For masteries I take 18/0/12.

Ferocity tree:

Tier 1: . Attack speed on is better than ability power.
Tier 2: . This is generally better because it gives more damage.
Tier 3: . Since it gives you lifesteal it is better. Lifesteal is great on . Also makes this better.
Tier 4: . isn't that great because is vulnerable to tower dives most of the time. This is better because it gives Yasuo better laning, since his early game is the weakest. However, could be taken if you think you will lose your lane against a counter.
Tier 5: . Yasuo is mainly physical damage so you should go this.
Keystone: . This keystone is what I think is the best on Yasuo (right now). It gives him more damage (which is why we go attack speed runes since Yasuo can make up for the lost of AD using this keystone). However, if you think you will be playing more passive, go .

Resolve tree:

Tier 1: . Yasuo is generally squishy, so we'll need some health regeneration. Also isn't necessary because of
Tier 2: . isn't useful, since can just use . And again the armor and magic resist will be coming from , so won't be necessary (also since you're Yasuo, you will constantly be pushing your lane, so most of the time you won't be near your turret).
Tier 3: . This is better than due to many reasons. Yasuo's passive gives him this shield, so will make the shield stronger. and will get stronger because of this tier. Any lifesteal built on will also get stronger.
Tier 4: . This is better since the other masteries don't provide any additional "tanky" stats because the other masteries are just better. However, this one is an exception. But, it is also optional to go . Why? Shorter / cooldown = more plays to make.

Summoner Spells

Always take:

This is obvious. You can to reposition yourself in teamfights, or anything in general. Use it to kill secure, get a kill, etc. Also you can make amazing plays with it (some are in the Tricks section).

Secondary spell:

This is better than due to the fact that is squishy early game. Also this is a better mid-late game spell than . Plus this spell technically lets you 1v1 anyone as long as you aren't that far behind.

isn't completely useless. Take it if your lane opponent has any sort of healing (like , , and ). If it's really small, I don't recommend it.

Great spell for top lane. Map pressure, help you team if you are far away. There are many uses to this spell.

Tricks

These two tricks are the best known.

Beyblade:

( + + )

Info: This trick is generally used to catch your opponent off guard. The easiest way to land a knockup is to + . But it is easily avoidable, like using . The trick, Beyblade is a lot like + . You will have to + , but you flash right after you click . This is totally unexpected and usually hard.

Airblade:

(Fully stacked + + + )

Info: In order to do this trick, you'll need about the lowest cooldown on your (1.33 seconds). First, use your empowered (fully stacked) to knock someone up (use for a higher chance of knockup). Next, + to a target, and immediately afterwards. When you do this correctly, the will hit the person you knocked up. This gives you an extra stack on you , so you will just need to once after your ult to get a tornado ready. This stack isn't removed because your ult removes the stack(s) at the beginning of the ult, this happens a little bit after. Airblade is also possible with any sort of knockup from your teammates.