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the Unforgiven
Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (8,028 games).
Yasuo, the Unforgiven, blocks every enemy projectile with Wind Wall, and Last Breath blinks him to an airborne champion. Master+ played him Mid most, and in the bot lane and Top nearly as often as each other, on Lethal Tempo, with Immortal Shieldbow into Infinity Edge as the core. Galio, Vex and Cassiopeia beat him most often. Locke, Akali and Zed he did better against.
FighterAssassin
Patch 26.18 · Mid · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 8,028 games · Preview sample
8,028
Games
Very High
Confidence
Win rate by lane
61.8%Win Rate
Flash
Exhaust55.8%Win Rate
Flash
Ignite
This exact page: taken in 12.9% of games·53.8% win rate over 1,035 games.
Attacking an enemy champion grants you Attack Speed, up to 6 stacks. At max stacks, deal bonus adaptive damage On-Attack.
Takedowns restore 5% of your missing health and grant an additional 20 gold.
Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Attack Speed.
Deal more damage to champions while you are low on health.
Whenever you gain a shield, your next basic attack against a champion deals bonus adaptive damage.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive from them deal 30-60 (based on level) less damage. Duration: 1.5s Cooldown: 55s
Fleet Footwork13.4% taken · 51.9% win1,072 games
Grasp of the Undying5.6% taken · 53.4% win453 games
Conqueror0.3% taken · 47.8% win23 gamesPrecision + Resolve91.9% taken · 51.7% win7,381 gamesResolve + Precision3.9% taken · 52.2% win316 games
Precision + Inspiration1.7% taken · 55.6% win135 gamesWhich ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Yasuo's most common path.
QThrusts forward, damaging all enemies in a line.
Cooldown 4s · No cost
WCreates a moving wall that blocks all enemy projectiles for 4 seconds.
Cooldown 25/23/21/19/17s · No cost
EDashes through target enemy, dealing magic damage.
Cooldown 0.5/0.4/0.3/0.2/0.1s · No cost
RBlinks to an Airborne enemy champion, dealing physical damage and holding all Airborne enemies in the area in the air.
Cooldown 70/50/30s · No costMax Q first, then E, then W. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QSteel Tempest | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||||
| WWind Wall | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||
| ESweeping Blade | E | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||||
| RLast Breath | R | R | R |
How Yasuo performs against enemy mid laners
Recommended items by enemy team composition
YasuoMid average
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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
PWay 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
QSteel 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.
No costCooldown 4sRange 475
WWind Wall
Creates a moving wall that blocks all enemy projectiles for 4 seconds.
No costCooldown 25/23/21/19/17sRange 400
ESweeping 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.
No costCooldown 0.5/0.4/0.3/0.2/0.1sRange 475
RLast 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.
No costCooldown 70/50/30sRange 1400
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Yasuo in 4 patches. The latest is patch 26.17, published 2026-08-25.
PWay of the Wanderer
While Yasuo has definitely been able to snowball and carry games, we believe that similar to Irelia, he is too reliant on snowballing rather than just being a proper scaling carry. We also want to encourage him to prioritize early crit strike builds over Blade of the Ruined King, so we are reducing his crit damage penalty which will simultaneously encourage this as well help him scale without significantly impacting his early game snowball.
Base Stats
Yasuo won't be much different this year. Considering he doubles how much critical strike chance he gets from each item, he just isn't allowed to crit for full damage.
Base Stats
Yasuo has been quite strong as of late, and with our incoming buffs to Blade of the Ruined King and Kraken Slayer, we want to preemptively balance the scales, so we're opting for a simple change to his AD growth to keep Yasuo feeling relatively similar to his current strength.
PWay of the Wanderer
Yasuo hasn't been able to find his stride recently, so we're here to put some wind behind his metaphorical sails this patch. We'd like it if Yasuo players were more willing to buy early crit chance, so we're softening his crit damage modifier from way back when base crit damage was 200%.
Riot's data lists 19 looks for Yasuo with their own art, the base skin included and 78 chroma variants.
Best ARAM build
This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
| Stat | Yasuo | Rank | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base health | 590 | =132nd | 620 |
| Health per level | 110 | =25th | 104 |
| Base armor | 32 | =65th | 30 |
| Armor per level | 4.6 | =82nd | 4.6 |
| Base magic resist | 32 | =32nd | 32 |
| Magic resist per level | 2.05 | =4th | 1.55 |
| Base attack damage | 60 | =72nd | 59 |
| Base attack speed | 0.697 | =11th | 0.656 |
| Attack speed per level | 3.5% | =11th | 2.5% |
| Move speed | 345 | =9th | 335 |
| Attack range | 175 | =87th | 175 |
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 18 | Rank at 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 590 | +110 | 2460 | =52nd of 173 |
| Armor | 32 | +4.6 | 110.2 | 65th of 173 |
| Magic resist | 32 | +2.05 | 66.85 | =5th of 173 |
Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.
Yasuo, the Unforgiven, is a Fighter and Assassin champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 10/10 for difficulty, 8/10 for attack, 4/10 for defense and 4/10 for magic. Yasuo casts every ability without a cost and has 19 skins with their own art. Yasuo's base attack speed of 0.697 is the 11th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 1 other).
An Ionian of deep resolve, Yasuo is an agile swordsman who wields the air itself against his enemies. As a proud young man, he was falsely accused of murdering his master—unable to prove his innocence, he was forced to slay his own brother in self defense. Even after his master's true killer was revealed, Yasuo still could not forgive himself for all he had done, and now wanders his homeland with only the wind to guide his blade.
Published by League of Legends on YouTube, 11 December 2013.
12 years old. League of Legends has been patched since, so watch it for how the kit plays, not for numbers — the rest of this page is written for the current patch.
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