Yasuo Mid Build

Yasuo Champion Guide

Role: Fighter

Lane: Midlane

Yasuo Mid performs best with a build featuring Blade of The Ruined King, Berserker's Greaves, Immortal Shieldbow, Infinity Edge, and Death's Dance. The most effective rune setup for Yasuo Mid includes Lethal Tempo, Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity, and Last Stand in the primary tree, paired with Overgrowth and Second Wind in the secondary tree.

Yasuo Champion Abilities

Way of the Wanderer

Resolve: Moving grants flow, which is tracked on Yasuo's resource bar. Moving faster grants more flow. At maximum flow, damage from a champion or monster briefly grants 125-600 shield (depending on level).

Intent: Yasuo's critical strike chance is increased by 150%. Gain 0.5 bonus attack damage for every 1% critical strike chance above 100%. P

Steel Tempest

Yasuo thrusts, dealing 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+1.05 per attack damage) physical damage. If he hits, he gains a stack for 6 seconds. While he has 2 stacks, his next use of this ability fires a whirlwind from range, dealing the same damage and knocking up for 0.75 second. If used while dashing, this ability strikes in a circle rather than a stab. Q

Wind Wall

Yasuo creates a 320 / 390 / 460 / 530 / 600 wide drifting wall of wind that blocks all enemy projectiles for 4 seconds.

Cooldown: 25 / 23 / 21 / 19 / 17 / 15 seconds. W

Sweeping Blade

Yasuo dashes through a target, dealing 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 (+60% of ability power) (+0.2 per bonus attack damage) magic damage. Each use of this ability grants 25% bonus damage to the next use for 5 seconds, stacking up to 100%. If Steel Tempest is cast while dashing, it will strike as a circle. This ability can only be cast on the same target once every few seconds. E

Last Breath

Yasuo teleports to an airborne enemy champion, dealing 200 / 350 / 500 (+1.5 of attack damage) physical damage and holding all nearby airborne enemies up for an additional 1 second. Yasuo also gains maximum Flow, but loses all Steel Tempest stacks. Afterwards, Yasuo's critical strikes ignore 60% armor for 15 seconds. R

Yasuo Summoner Spells

Flash

Flash is a location-targeted summoner spell that causes your champion to blink to the location in range of your cursor.

Teleport

Teleport is a unit-targeted summoner spell that blinks your champion to the target allied unit after a few seconds of channeling.

Teleport transforms into Unleashed Teleport after 10:00.

Yasuo Runes

Yasuo Items

Yasuo Ability Order

Yasuo Matchups Overview

Strong against

Twisted Fate

Mel

Diana

Sylas

Hwei

Ekko

Weak against

Kayle

Taliyah

Pantheon

Lissandra

Azir

Cho'Gath

Yasuo Tips and Tricks

Weave through the minion wave with your E while always leaving at least one minion untouched so you can escape after trading. Wait for the optimal time to use your R. Don’t engage whenever anyone gets knocked up as you might end up going in 1v5. Refrain from using your W unless absolutely necessary. You never know when it will come in handy to protect you from incoming ganks or global R.

Yasuo Best Build, Runes and Items

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Yasuo Mid build, take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, pick Lethal Tempo as your keystone, followed by Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity, and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Overgrowth and Second Wind in the secondary tree. For rune shards, take Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex, and Health Scaling in defense depending on the matchup. Start with Blade of The Ruined King, followed by Berserker's Greaves and Immortal Shieldbow. Complete the build with Infinity Edge, Death's Dance, and Guardian Angel. Max your abilities in the order of Q - E - W.

Alternative

If you're looking for an alternative Yasuo Mid build, take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with Lethal Tempo as your keystone, Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity, and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Overgrowth with Second Wind in the secondary tree. For rune shards, use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling. Build Kraken Slayer first, followed by Berserker's Greaves and Immortal Shieldbow. Finish the build with Infinity Edge, Death's Dance, and Wit's End. Max your abilities in the order of Q - E - W.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an off-meta Yasuo Mid build, take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with Fleet Footwork, Absorb Life, Legend: Alacrity, and Last Stand in the primary rune tree, and Overgrowth with Second Wind in the secondary tree. For rune shards, use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling. Start with Blade of The Ruined King, followed by Berserker's Greaves and Immortal Shieldbow. Finish with Infinity Edge, Death's Dance, and Guardian Angel. Max your abilities in the order of Q - E - W.

Situational Yasuo Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you may want to consider building situational items or taking specific runes. Carefully examine your team composition, enemy team, and game state to plan your Yasuo build accordingly. For rune shards, you may want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.