Hello everyone, welcome to my in-depth guide!

My name is Polarshift. I'm a player that has always been interested in a bunch of roles and champions, allowing me to possess quite a lot of general game-knowledge. So why don't I use my knowledge to help other people out that are interested in the same champions that I enjoy to play? Before I make any of these guides, I like to do my own little research about the champion to correct any wrong views I might have, thus raising the quality of these guides. I hope that you enjoy reading my guide and that it'll answer any questions you had.

Here are the topics that you'll learn in this guide:

+ Pros and cons and when is the best time pick Yasuo.
+ Ability sequence, rune setups and summoner spells.
+ In-depth itemization. Read the notes on the builds too.
+ All kinds of combos, tricks and animation cancels.
+ Making your runepage and choosing a spell pre-game.
+ How to play Yasuo in the laning phase and after it.
+ Matchups for Yasuo; they're at the top of this page.


Note that matchups are a bit sketchy to do since it doesn't take into account that you have a jungler!
Don't forget to read the notes at the top of the page for more info on the builds.

PROS WHEN PICKING YASUO

+ His early game is not useless and can be infinitely improved on; when you snowball, you will snowball hard!
+ Yasuo has a lot of mobility with his E, especially when fighting inside of minionwaves. His R allows him to dodge stuff too!
+ Yasuo's Windwall is incredibly good against champions that rely on projectiles. Dodging ranged attacks is a piece of cake!
+ Yasuo is really good at teamfighting because of his knock-ups, exceptional mobility, Wind Wall and his ultimate. Yasuo has a knock-up every few seconds which is quite, to say the least, broken in a fight.
+ Yasuo's cooldowns are extremely low, hence making him mechanically advanced to play. You can cancel his abilities with other abilities or just a plain auto-attack. Yasuo has incredibly high DPS because of the amount of abilities he can cancel; this can definitely catch enemies offguard.

CONS WHEN PICKING YASUO

- Yasuo is probably one of the hardest mechanical champions in the game.
- It will definitely take you a lot of time to become good at him; mastering him is a long journey!
- Yasuo struggles when behind since he's basically a melee carry. Which means he doesn't have a lot of health to work with and can easily get one-shot. Some match-ups will just be running Fleet Footwork and surviving.
- In lower elo's people tend to have an extremely negative prejudice about Yasuo players; be prepared to dodge these games if you want to climb. Don't mind them and play what you enjoy though!
- Yasuo is incredibly squishy and will get oneshot if he has no targets that he can lifesteal on. Thus, he's very vulnerable against crowd control.

Yasuo will frequently level his abilities in the same following order:

Exceptions in this might be an 'E - Sweeping Blade' start on lvl 1 if you think you can poke an enemy down after they overextend to break your shield. I recommend only trying this with Fleet Footwork because you will most likely get a lot of minion and disengage damage from the enemy laner.

versus as keystone:

Secondary rune choices:

Wind Wall grants you vision of the area its casted on for the duration of the Wind Wall itself. Airblades deal damage to the target in the air, not the one you use E+Q on. You need atleast 1.27 AS to pull off a max-range airblade. You can weave in an auto before using the second E+Q in a keyblade. Yasuo's ultimate will always target the champions closest to his mouse. If Yasuo would position himself in turret range when ulting the game automatically puts him out of turret range. You can ult of every knock-up in the game, even the smaller ones like Vi's Q or Sylas's second E. If you Q while using Galeforce it will send out the whirlwind after your Q cast time, allowing for cool animations.

When I have a bit more time I'll make a proper combo guide for Yasuo with tips and tricks!

To learn about proper warding spots:

https://adobe.ly/2X7ATza

It would be too long if I put it on Mobafire.

After reading the match-ups you should have atleast a slight idea of who you have a chance of beating and who you have to just survive against. Fleet Footwork will allow you to survive while Conqueror will enhance your dueling potential. Don't be greedy by going Conqueror while you should have gone Fleet Footwork; you will suffer by not being able to come near your minionwaves! For the first wave, you can stack Gathering Storm by using Steel Tempest on the raptor jungle camp. This will allow you to get the first three minions without coming close to the enemy in poke-lanes. Buying a Refillable potion on your first back can be a wise thing to do if you have a hard time in your lane. If you had to back really early you can buy another dagger for the health and lifesteal. The best first back you can have is when you can buy Berserker's Greaves.

Closing distance is often really easy to do on Yasuo since there will be minions between you and the enemy. To trade, dash through the minion wave, attack and fall back by dashing back towards the side of your turret. Sometimes, instead of trading, you want to go for an all-in (for example if the enemy overextends). The only thing holding you back of killing the enemy is CC. Make sure you try to dodge it by dashing through the minion waves and by using your Wind Wall properly. If it didn't work out for you just fall back again and wait for your next opportunity.

Since Yasuo has no resources and low cooldowns, he has an easy time clearing minion waves, whether that is by dashing through the whole wave, using Steel Tempest on all the minions or just by using his 3rd Q. This will allow him to have priority; make sure you use this priority and place your wards, roam with your jungler, take the enemy's jungle camps or gank a side-lane. Remember that warding is really important when playing Yasuo since you often want to play quite aggressive, using your laning power to the fullest potential. Buy a control-ward if you have any extra gold to spend. You don't want to lose the game because you were too greedy or lazy with warding!

After laning phase a Yasuo player can decide to keep split-pushing until an objective spawns. If you're ahead you might even be able to tower-dive the enemy if they don't come and defend with multiple people. If you can't turretdive the enemy, and you have vision of everyone on the map, you want to enter the enemy jungle to clear their jungle camps. Another thing you can do is just push waves with your superior wave-clear until you're certain it's gonna hit the enemy turret and then group with your team till the wave you pushed comes back to your side of the map. If you need to recall always ping back your team or tell them to play it safe; however if you think they won't listen then stay on the map till you think its safe for you to recall.

After you're grouped with your team you want to play the teamfights slow. Let your tank engage (with a knock-up) or wait for them to make a mistake. This doesn't mean you can't be the initiator; if you can get Gathering Storm stacks you might be able to throw a teamfight-winning whirlwind. You either get those stacks by kiting the enemy frontliner or by using Steel Tempest on targets like minions or baron/drakes. Always take objectives, enemy turrets and enemy jungle camps whenever the enemy is not on the map!

Not that important right now since they're in the build notes (the little pencil next to the builds). All items here in the future.

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