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(14.24) Eriosun's Master Midlane YASUO Guide Season 14

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Runes: CONSISTENT - FLEET

1 2 3

Precision

Fleet Footwork

Triumph

Legend: Alacrity

Last Stand

Resolve

Overgrowth

Conditioning

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health

Spells:

1 2 3 4

STANDARD

Flash

Ignite

Items

STARTERS

STANDARD , GOOD EARLY DAMAGE AND SUSTAIN

VS HEAVY POKE-CHAMPS

VS STRONG GANKING JUNGLERS / UNTRADABLE MATCHUPS

DONT FORGET YOUR SNEAKERS

STANDARD STEEL TEMPEST (Q) CAP

VS HEAVY AUTO-BASED CHAMPS

VS LOT OF AP/CCs

CURRENT BEST BUILDS

- CONSISTENCY

BEST BRUISER BUIILD

VS HEAVY ARMOR BUILDERS

VS HEAVY AD-BASED COMPS

SITUATIONAL

COUNTER HEAVY TARGET CCs

RUSH AFTER BOOTS VS SUSTAIN-BASED MATCHUPS

4TH ITEM TANKY OPTION IF NEEDED

YOU CAN SWAP IT WITH MORTAL REMINDER IF YOU NEED TO BE TANKIER

Ability Order BASIC Q START / MAX

1 2

Yasuo Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Zed

Extreme

[ALL THREATS ARE RANKED AS 5 FOR PRACTICALITY] Zed is a very common matchup for Yasuo. The key for this match-up is "DONT FALL BEHIND". Zed is an insane Assasin and if he gets a lead in the early phases of the game he will start onetapping you without even needing his Shurikens. So dont risk too much in this lane and try to trade safely, only when your Windwall is up and when you have a good wave position to go in and out/dodge his Shurikens. One important tip is that when Zed ults he will always appear behind your character, so in order to play around it with Yasuo you have to cast your Tornado behind you considering his ultimate animation. With a bit of pratice and timing you will have no more problems into Zed!

Alistar

Ideal

Any Knockup / Frontline

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Alistar

Ideal

Any Knockup / Frontline

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Heeeey, welcome to my "Yasuo Midlane Guide". Im an Italian Master main and in the right situations I really enjoy going for midlane.
I started playing in middle Season9 and peaked Diamond I in early Season10.
I know it sounds weird but, hold on, it wasnt my first experience on MOBA games.
I played DOTA 2 for years! So when switching to League of Legends I was still in my environment.

As I said , I come from Dota2, and in Dota details and game knowledge is a MUST.
That's why I decided to make a guide, I really like to speculate on the game details and share with you guys my experiences and knowledge.
I really hope this guide will help you out and answer some of the questions that playing in the midlane raised in your minds.

So, with all that being said, hope you enjoyed the guide, I will do my best to keep it updated and make sure noone will be missing out on new builds and playstyles.

Here's my stream, If you are interested you can pass by and say Hi
I stream almost every day and you can find me:HERE

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PROS

• Insanely good at farming, easy to get high CS/m
• Good scaling
• Good mobility
• High mechanical skill-roof
• Rewarding when played correctly
• Insane sinergy with Knock-up comps

CONS

• Very hard to master mechanically and macro wise
• Hard to get back in game when behind
• Sensible to burst-damage
• Wrong positioning hard punishes
• Not so many winning matchups
• 0/10 spike is not real

KEY-STONE SELECTION

CONQUEROR Very efficient and consistent Keystone. is the standard and most optimal Keystone for and provides strenght from the laning-phase to the late-game! It works great against tanky comps where it will be easy to stack our at max and utilize his full potentia. Healing and Sustained damage will not be a problem while running this Keystone!

NEW LETHAL TEMPO is a real game-changer for . With this Keystone we will finally be able to chose between and since we will no longer be forced to utilize in order to cap our cooldown to 1.33s. This gives us finally the opportunity to play with some Tenacity that can be also stacked and spiked up with wich is a really insane combination of Runes to utilize against heavy-cc based comps. At last but not least is insanely strong early-midgame thanks to the insane bonus attack speed it will provide. Stacking up will give us attack speed and also lower Cooldown! We can basically lock our to 1.33s at level 1, granting us insane damage-output even in the early phases of the game!

As we all know is high-cap MECHANICAL CHAMPION and is VULNERABLE TO ENEMY GANKS
I bet you know about the 0/10 spike ♿
THIS IS WHY I WANT TO GIVE YOU SOME TIPS

•MAP AWARENESS:
Having a good map awareness while playing is a must.
Knowing where the enemy jungler is and if you can step-up in the lane to start trading and csing properly is foundamental in order to scale-up and become relevant in the game.

•IMPORTANCE OF THE EARLY LEVELS:
As we already said its important to have a good map awareness and track enemy jungler.
This is becaouse is an item-dipendent champion and works basically as a stat-checker.
Its important to have a good , consistent laning-phase and be always even/ahead in gold and items.
Having a high CS/m is not hard due to his insane wave-clear and last-hit accesibility, in this way we can be relevant most of our games, as long as you dont lose too much farm and exp in the laning-phase.

• START CHEESE:
Beside the classical start at level 1 we can also choose to start with .
start is a very strong and cheesy option.
Works best against champions with no mobility and weak level 1.
You can bait the enemy to get close to the wave and start using on the minions.
Its important to chain AUTO ATTACKS with the in order to get the HIGHEST DAMAGE-OUTPUT POSSIBLE!

•LEVEL 1 START TRADING:
Yasuo's level 1 IS VERY STRONG AGAINST MEELE CHAMPIONS.
For example against , you can check on which minion will dash with to last-hit it and get close to it, once she dashes on it you can proceed to BASIC + and keep punishing her if she started with .
So its important to learn the matchups and UTILIZE THE LEVEL 1 ADVANTAGE PROPERLY

• INTERACTIONS:
's can have some weird interactions some times that can be an advantage for you.
For example 's can be completely cancelled even if its already dropped on the ground and her ultimate can be completely stopped if you stand behind your
's and can be stopped.
's can be cancelled from the ground if you throw on top of it.
's basic attacks and COMPLETELY IGNORE 's Wind Wall

BASIC TRICKS

•KEYBLADE
The Keyblade is a very popual trick and consists in using your + combo before using your on the knocked-up target.
This will result in dealing additional damage by adding a bonus while casting .

•KNOCK-UP TARGET-SHIFT COMBO
This is a pretty complicate combo that works around perfect timing and spacing.
Consists in using your + combo on a target and before completing 's cast animation on the target you wanna knock-up resulting in a SHIFT OF THE KNOCK-UP AREA

•E WALL JUMP
This trick can be used as an insane escape in some situations.
You can use your on a minion when the minion is CLOSE TO A SMALL-WALL and dash over it.
Its a bit tricky and needs some practice to be pulled-off consistently.

•Q BUFFER + FLASH
This combo will allow you to take off-guard enemies by extending your Tornado's range by buffering it and then using to extend his range.
Make sure to cast only at half-animation of the

•3rd Q-HOLD + BACKSTEP FLASH-Q + IGNITE
These 2 tricks will enable you a lot of solokills in the early phases of the laning-phase trust me!
Hodling your third while sticking to the enemy midlaner will give you a lot of surplus damage output in the schermish, since the enemy will try to sidestep your third , you will be able to land more basic attacks, managing to deal way more damage than just trying to hit him with your third as soon as you stack it up.
Also another insane mechanic to take off-guard enemies is the base + Combo.
Its important to do this combo only when we know properly our damage out-put.
Make sure to BACKSTEP BEFORE GOING FOR THE COMBO , if you walk straight up to the enemy he will understand what you will do and could predict your timing.
So in order to give the enemy the lowest chances of out-play is important to perform this combo with a little backstep!

The key points of laning as

•WAVE MANAGEMENT:
As we already said is vulnerable to jungle ganks and burst-damage.
This is why wave management is a key point.
Making sure to know enemy jungler's position and avoiding non-sense pushing has a key role in having a consisten laning-phase that will allow us to eventually take over the game.
Also pulling-off lane freezes in winning matchups is important in making sure you will get the most value out of your wave management , denying XP and CS to the enemy midlaner.

•PROPER TRADING:
Trading as is foundamental in order to get lead in the laning-phase and let your jungler pull off lane-ganks.
For better trading potential in the laning-phase I recommend playing with .
combined with good wave position and good usage of will enable us to perfectly trade in most of the mathcups.

•FIRST BACK IMPORTANCE:
Is important as to have good backs in the early stages of the game.
One of the best backs is with .
will give you insane amount of attack speed and movement speed.
These stats on are important to open up solo-kill scenarios or out-lane the enemy midlaner.

•CS/M IMPACT:
As we already said is a stat-check champion.
This means he necessarily neeeds to be ahead/even in gold/items in order to be relevant in the game.
This is why having a good CS/m is crucial.
With a good laning-phase and optimal CS/m you will open your way out to take over the game.

The key points of Teamfighting as

•POSITIONING:
is a pretty squishy champion and can be easily taken down from just a couple of target CCs.
That's why is important to ACKNOWLEDGE THE DANGERS like TARGET/UNAVOIDABLE CCS/BURST-DAMAGE and position yourself in the teamfight in a way that you can follow it without being the primary target for the enemy team.

•TARGET SELECTION:
As we can deal good bursts of damage , if you have safe knock-ups in your team like or or any almost guaranteed knockup make sure you just wait for them to knock-up a priority target and follow it with your .
TAKING DOWN HIGH-DAMAGE/DPS-DEALERS is the best option as since if they dont have enough damage to burst you down you can easily keep fighthing and sustaining on the frontliners.

•FOLLOWING-UP TEAMFIGHTS:
As we already said if you have knock-ups in your team things get way easier.
You can wait for your team to knock a priority target up and follow it with your .
But if you dont have any knock-ups in your team instead things will get a bit tricky.
You can stack your on a jungle camp or on the minions if the fight has started or you know it will start in seconds in order to be prepared and try to get an opening with 3rd 's knock-up + .
Otherwise if the fight is in a position where you can't stack your in any way you will have to play very carefully, trying to stack it on the frontline or just dealing damage by positioning your correctly in the teamfight.

•WIND WALL POSITIONING:
Correctly positioning your in teamfights can be game-changer.
's can block a tons of damage , you can block key-abilities of the enemy team like 's or 's .
So its important to ACKNOWLEDGE WICH SPELLS WE CAN TAKE OUT in order to utilize our at his full-potential!

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