By GamGem ResearchLast updated 20 Aug 2026 · 00:00
Yasuo
the Unforgiven
FighterAssassin
League of LegendsPatch 26.16MidRanked Solo/DuoEmerald+NA2,562 gamesSample data
Role snapshot (Mid)
- 52.7%
- Win Rate
- 0.5%
- Pick Rate
- 6.3%
- Ban Rate
2,562
Games
Low
Confidence
Matchup map (Mid) — level 1–18
Conditional build matrix
| vs AP Burst | vs AD Assassins | vs Tanks | vs Sustain | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mythic / Core |   |   |   |   |
| Core 2 |   |   |  |   |
| Core 3 |   |  |   |  |
| Boots |  |  |  |  |
| Situational |  |   |  |   |
Popular build
1,179 games53.1%Win Rate
Flash
IgniteReliable build
845 games51.8%Win Rate
Flash
TeleportHigh observed win rate
307 games55.2%Win Rate
Flash
ExhaustRunes
Primary: Resolve
Guardian
Demolish
Bone Plating
Unflinching
Secondary: Domination
Cheap Shot
Grisly Mementos
Shards
+9 Adaptive Force
+9 Adaptive Force
+10-180 Health (based on level)
Skill order
| Q | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| E | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| R | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
Ability details
Way of the Wanderer
Yasuo's Critical Strike Chance is increased. Additionally, Yasuo builds toward a shield whenever he is moving. The shield triggers when he takes damage from a champion or monster.
Passive — never cast
Steel Tempest
Thrusts forward, damaging all enemies in a line.On hit, grants a stack of Gathering Storm for a few seconds. At 2 stacks, Steel Tempest fires a whirlwind that knocks Airborne.Steel Tempest is treated as a basic attack and scales with all the same things.
Cost 0 FlowCooldown 4sRange 475
Wind Wall
Creates a moving wall that blocks all enemy projectiles for 4 seconds.
Cost 0 FlowCooldown 25/23/21/19/17sRange 400
Sweeping Blade
Dashes through target enemy, dealing magic damage. Each cast increases subsequent dash's damage, up to a max amount.Cannot be re-cast on the same enemy for a few seconds.If Steel Tempest is cast while dashing, it will strike as a circle.
Cost 0 FlowCooldown 0.5/0.4/0.3/0.2/0.1sRange 475
Last Breath
Blinks to an Airborne enemy champion, dealing physical damage and holding all Airborne enemies in the area in the air. Grants maximum Flow but resets all stacks of Gathering Storm.For a moderate time afterwards, Yasuo's critical strikes gain significant Bonus Armor Penetration.
Cost 0 FlowCooldown 70/50/30sRange 1400
Scaling — level 1–18
YasuoMid average
1918
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1918
Counter plan — how to beat Yasuo
Avoid extended fights — its sustain grows with every trade it survives
Deny the reset — it wants a kill to come back out; a warded exit removes it
Punish the cooldown — Yasuo is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 10/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
ARAM performance
- 52.0%
- Win Rate ▲ 0.4%
- 8.4%
- Pick Rate ▲ 1.2%
- 1.5%
- Ban Rate ▼ 0.7%
- Damage dealt
- 106.3%
- Damage taken
- 101.0%
- Healing
- 104.1%
- Shielding
- 96.4%
- Ability Haste
- +23
Best ARAM build
Patch timeline
We hold the rates, not the balance log. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
- 26.16Live now+0.2
- 26.14Sample win rate across this patch+0.1
- 26.11Sample win rate across this patch+0.8
- 26.08Sample win rate across this patch+0.7
- 26.05Sample win rate across this patch+0.6
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Methodology
- Data window
- 512,340 games on patch 26.16, Ranked Solo/Duo, NA. Last refreshed 20 Aug 2026.
- Rank aggregation
- Emerald+ and above, pooled. Splitting further leaves samples too small to separate a real effect from noise.
- Role assignment
- A champion is filed under the lanes it actually plays, not the one class it belongs to — which is why several appear in two.
- Counters
- A matchup, not a tier gap: how this champion does into that one specifically, over that pairing’s own games.
- Minimum sample
- The confidence indicator beside every rate is driven by how much of the window this champion appears in. A low reading means read the figure loosely, not that it is wrong.
- Why a build is not a cause
- The best-scoring build is the one the best-placed players happened to take. Correlation is what a rate can show; it is not evidence that buying those items caused the wins.
- Where the numbers come from
- Names, classes, lanes, abilities, items and runes are Riot Data Dragon. Win, pick and ban rates are derived samples — Riot publishes none of them, and nothing on this page presents one as measured.