Yasuo

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Comp identity — Top / Mid / Bot

Leans Attack — its strongest of the five comp axes.

Plays like — nearest pentagon

Ranked by how close their five-axis heatmap looks — role-agnostic.

Where it thrives (5-comp fit)

Attacknatural · 60%
Splitworkable · 40%
Catchworkable · 30%
Yasuo chains the fight with lockdown once contact is made. Enough Split and Catch sits in the kit to threaten a side lane once the map opens. Passive doubles crit chance from all sources and grants a conditional shield when taking damage at max Flow (built from movement).

Kit quirks

Passive doubles crit chance from all sources and grants a conditional shield when taking damage at max Flow (built from movement)
Q Steel Tempest's third cast (after 2 hits) becomes a knockup whirlwind, core to his all-in/wombo setup
W Wind Wall blocks all enemy non-turret projectiles for 4 seconds, a unique anti-poke/anti-ultimate defensive utility tool though it protects allies more than himself directly
W (Wind Wall) lasts a flat 4 seconds while Q (Steel Tempest)'s cooldown is a static 4-1.33s that only drops with bonus attack speed, not by rank — so a heavily-stacked build can safely re-cast Q multiple times behind a single Wind Wall.
E (Sweeping Blade) dashes a fixed 475 units regardless of the target's distance and grants 2 seconds of unit-collision immunity, letting Yasuo wall-hop specific jungle terrain and shove through a waveclog uninterrupted.

How Yasuo actually performs in ranked solo queue · 187 weighted games

Solo queue strength

Mid48% WR · 105.0 games
Top51% WR · 41.9 games
Bot47% WR · 39.7 games
Jungle50% WR · 0.2 games
Support50% WR · 0.1 games

Strongest duos

Best matchups

YoneMid+2%

Hardest matchups

No losing matchups recorded.

Champion reference

Base stats and every ability with its per-rank values and ratios. Search all champions →

Yasuo — The Unforgiven

Class: Skirmisher
Resource: Flow
Range type: Melee
Adaptive type: Physical
Positions: Top, Middle, Bottom
Released: 2013-12-13 (V3.15)
Last changed: V26.22
Price: 675 BE · 585 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	590	+110	2460
Health regen (per 5s)	6.5	+0.9	21.8
Flow	100	—	100
Flow regen (per 5s)	0	—	0
Armor	32	+4.6	110.2
Magic resist	32	+2.05	66.85
Attack damage	60	+2.5	102.5
Attack speed	0.697	+3.5%	1.096
Attack speed ratio	0.67
Attack range	175
Movement speed	345

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Acquisition radius: 400
Selection height: 180
Selection radius: 120
Pathing radius: 32
Critical strike damage modifier: 0.95
Attack delay offset: -0.08

ARAM: total attack speed ×1.025

URF: damage taken ×0.9

Abilities

Passive

Way of the Wanderer

Innate - Intent: Yasuo's total critical strike chance is doubled from all other sources. Additionally,「 every 1% critical strike chance in excess of 100% is converted into 0.5 bonus attack damage. 」「 every 50% critical strike chance in excess of 100% is converted into 25 bonus attack damage. 」

Yasuo's critical strikes deal only「 (190% + 28.5%) AD physical damage. 」「 95% of the critical damage champions usually have. 」

Innate - Resolve: Yasuo generates a stack of Flow for every 59 / 52.5 / 46 (based on level) units he travels by any means. At「 100 stacks 」「 5900 / 5250 / 4600 (based on level) units traveled 」and upon taking damage from an enemy champion or monster, Yasuo consumes all Flow to grant himself a shield for 125 – 674.46 (based on level) that lasts for 1 second.

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: Self

Notes (4)

Yasuo gains the shield before the damage instance; the shield will mitigate the damage that triggered it.
Yasuo is able to reach 100% critical strike chance with Way of the Wanderer's multiplier after obtaining a total of 50% critical strike chance.
Yasuo's secondary resource bar will display the amount of shield stored as an equivalent percentage to his Flow stacks. (Each Flow stack will add 1.25 – 6.74 (based on level) to the bar)
Upon taking damage, the bar will display his current shield strength.

Tips & tricks (2)

Taking into account Yasuo's 345 base movement speed and assuming he's constantly moving, it will take 17.1 / 15.22 / 13.33 (based on level) seconds to generate 100 Flow stacks.
Taking into account the 45 bonus movement speed that most Tier 2 boots grant (resulting in 390 total movement speed), it will take 15.13 / 13.46 / 11.79 (based on level) seconds to generate 100 Flow stacks.

Steel Tempest

Static cooldown: 4 – 1.33 (based on bonus attack speed)Range: 450 • 1150Effect radius: 215Width: 80 • 180Speed: 1200Thrust cast time: 0.35 – 0.175 (based on bonus attack speed)Whirlwind cast time: 0.35 – 0.28 (based on bonus attack speed)

Active: Yasuo thrusts his sword in a line in the target direction that deals physical damage to enemies hit and applies on-hit and on-attack effects to the first enemy hit. Steel Tempest's damage based on its AD ratio can critically strike.

Physical Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ 100% AD)
Critical Strike Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ (190% + 28.5%) AD)

Steel Wind Rising: If this hits at least one enemy, Yasuo generates a stack of Gathering Storm for 6 seconds, stacking up to 2 times and refreshing on subsequent hits. At 2 stacks, the next Steel Tempest cast consumes them all to become empowered with a new effect.

Gathering Storm Bonus: Yasuo unleashes a whirlwind in the target direction that applies and triggers the same effects and additionally knocks up enemies hit for 0.9 seconds.

Steel Tempest's thrust will fail to hit targets after the cast time if Yasuo was affected by disarming crowd control during it, but the cooldown of the ability is reset to 0.1 seconds.

If Steel Tempest is cast during Sweeping Blade, the cast is modified to cause Yasuo to slash around himself at the end of the dash, applying and triggering the same effects against nearby enemies. This slash can be empowered by Gathering Storm's bonus, causing it to additionally apply the knock up to enemies hit. Steel Tempest's cast time is not incurred when it is cast this way, but Yasuo will become unable to declare basic attacks for 0.5 seconds after the dash ends.

Targeting input: Direction • AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: See NotesDamage sub-types: PhysicalMinion Aggro: See NotesSpell shield: BlockedParries: See NotesProjectile: See Notes

Notes (24)

This ability always employs Quick cast.
Casting Sweeping Blade when Steel Tempest's remaining cooldown is less than 0.5 seconds resets this remaining cooldown to allow casting it in combination, but adds the refunded time to Steel Tempest's cooldown.
If Yasuo blinks during Sweeping Blade after having buffered Steel Tempest during it, he will perform the slash at the blink location, applying Steel Tempest's effects to enemies in the area at the time.
If Yasuo becomes unable to cast abilities during Sweeping Blade's dash after buffering Steel Tempest, Steel Tempest will not cast, but will still go on cooldown.(unexpected)
The whirlwind from consuming stacks of Gathering Storm can strike targets whose center is behind Yasuo, unlike most missiles.
Steel Tempest applies basic damage to the first (closest) enemy hit and area damage to secondary enemies:
Steel Tempest will not apply spell effects to the first target hit, but will do so to the secondary ones.
Spell vamp will only grant healing from the damage dealt to secondary targets, and healing is reduced to 33% effectiveness, accordingly.
Life steal will heal based on the damage dealt to the first target hit.
If the first target hit by Steel Tempest is a champion, Hail of Blades will be triggered or refresh its buff duration.
Once per cast instance, upon hitting a champion, Steel Tempest will consume a stack of Hail of Blades.
The whirlwind is a missile and can therefore be intercepted.
Steel Tempest will only draw minion aggro if the first target is a champion.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
Steel Tempest maintains its casting angle direction in relation to Yasuo if he moves during the cast time.
Each parry has different interactions with this ability, whether it's the first target of Steel Tempest or the secondary one. In either case Yasuo still gains a stack of Gathering Storm and his whirlwind knock-up cannot be negated by parries:
Dodge: both first target and secondary target do not take damage.
Block: first target does not take damage, secondary target does take damage.
Blind: both first target and secondary target do take damage.
Steel Tempest rolls its critical strikes individually against each enemy hit.
Casting Last Breath during Steel Tempest will buffer it to cast after the cast time has completed.
However, if Last Breath is used on a target affected by an airborne source that is not Yasuo, it is cast immediately due to Steel Tempest's cast time ending prematurely. Steel Tempest will still cast in this case.
Spell shield does not prevent a stack of Gathering Storm from being gained.
While at two stacks, a range indicator will be shown for the effective range of the whirlwind.

Tips & tricks (2)

Casting Last Breath while buffering Steel Tempest during Sweeping Blade will also trigger the area of effect around Yasuo after the blink, thus avoiding the Gathering Storm stack reset and generating a stack of Gathering Storm if the area of effect hits an enemy around where Yasuo blinked to.
Dancing (default CTRL+3) during Steel Tempest's cast time will hide the animation but not cancel the ability.

Steel Tempest

Physical Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ 100% AD)
Critical Strike Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ (190% + 28.5%) AD)

Gathering Storm Bonus: Yasuo unleashes a whirlwind in the target direction that applies and triggers the same effects and additionally knocks up enemies hit for 0.9 seconds.

Steel Tempest's thrust will fail to hit targets after the cast time if Yasuo was affected by disarming crowd control during it, but the cooldown of the ability is reset to 0.1 seconds.

Targeting input: Direction • AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: See NotesDamage sub-types: PhysicalMinion Aggro: See NotesSpell shield: BlockedParries: See NotesProjectile: See Notes

Notes (24)

This ability always employs Quick cast.
Casting Sweeping Blade when Steel Tempest's remaining cooldown is less than 0.5 seconds resets this remaining cooldown to allow casting it in combination, but adds the refunded time to Steel Tempest's cooldown.
If Yasuo blinks during Sweeping Blade after having buffered Steel Tempest during it, he will perform the slash at the blink location, applying Steel Tempest's effects to enemies in the area at the time.
If Yasuo becomes unable to cast abilities during Sweeping Blade's dash after buffering Steel Tempest, Steel Tempest will not cast, but will still go on cooldown.(unexpected)
The whirlwind from consuming stacks of Gathering Storm can strike targets whose center is behind Yasuo, unlike most missiles.
Steel Tempest applies basic damage to the first (closest) enemy hit and area damage to secondary enemies:
Steel Tempest will not apply spell effects to the first target hit, but will do so to the secondary ones.
Spell vamp will only grant healing from the damage dealt to secondary targets, and healing is reduced to 33% effectiveness, accordingly.
Life steal will heal based on the damage dealt to the first target hit.
If the first target hit by Steel Tempest is a champion, Hail of Blades will be triggered or refresh its buff duration.
Once per cast instance, upon hitting a champion, Steel Tempest will consume a stack of Hail of Blades.
The whirlwind is a missile and can therefore be intercepted.
Steel Tempest will only draw minion aggro if the first target is a champion.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
Steel Tempest maintains its casting angle direction in relation to Yasuo if he moves during the cast time.
Each parry has different interactions with this ability, whether it's the first target of Steel Tempest or the secondary one. In either case Yasuo still gains a stack of Gathering Storm and his whirlwind knock-up cannot be negated by parries:
Dodge: both first target and secondary target do not take damage.
Block: first target does not take damage, secondary target does take damage.
Blind: both first target and secondary target do take damage.
Steel Tempest rolls its critical strikes individually against each enemy hit.
Casting Last Breath during Steel Tempest will buffer it to cast after the cast time has completed.
However, if Last Breath is used on a target affected by an airborne source that is not Yasuo, it is cast immediately due to Steel Tempest's cast time ending prematurely. Steel Tempest will still cast in this case.
Spell shield does not prevent a stack of Gathering Storm from being gained.
While at two stacks, a range indicator will be shown for the effective range of the whirlwind.

Tips & tricks (2)

Casting Last Breath while buffering Steel Tempest during Sweeping Blade will also trigger the area of effect around Yasuo after the blink, thus avoiding the Gathering Storm stack reset and generating a stack of Gathering Storm if the area of effect hits an enemy around where Yasuo blinked to.
Dancing (default CTRL+3) during Steel Tempest's cast time will hide the animation but not cancel the ability.

Steel Tempest

Physical Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ 100% AD)
Critical Strike Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ (190% + 28.5%) AD)

Gathering Storm Bonus: Yasuo unleashes a whirlwind in the target direction that applies and triggers the same effects and additionally knocks up enemies hit for 0.9 seconds.

Steel Tempest's thrust will fail to hit targets after the cast time if Yasuo was affected by disarming crowd control during it, but the cooldown of the ability is reset to 0.1 seconds.

Targeting input: Direction • AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: See NotesDamage sub-types: PhysicalMinion Aggro: See NotesSpell shield: BlockedParries: See NotesProjectile: See Notes

Notes (24)

This ability always employs Quick cast.
Casting Sweeping Blade when Steel Tempest's remaining cooldown is less than 0.5 seconds resets this remaining cooldown to allow casting it in combination, but adds the refunded time to Steel Tempest's cooldown.
If Yasuo blinks during Sweeping Blade after having buffered Steel Tempest during it, he will perform the slash at the blink location, applying Steel Tempest's effects to enemies in the area at the time.
If Yasuo becomes unable to cast abilities during Sweeping Blade's dash after buffering Steel Tempest, Steel Tempest will not cast, but will still go on cooldown.(unexpected)
The whirlwind from consuming stacks of Gathering Storm can strike targets whose center is behind Yasuo, unlike most missiles.
Steel Tempest applies basic damage to the first (closest) enemy hit and area damage to secondary enemies:
Steel Tempest will not apply spell effects to the first target hit, but will do so to the secondary ones.
Spell vamp will only grant healing from the damage dealt to secondary targets, and healing is reduced to 33% effectiveness, accordingly.
Life steal will heal based on the damage dealt to the first target hit.
If the first target hit by Steel Tempest is a champion, Hail of Blades will be triggered or refresh its buff duration.
Once per cast instance, upon hitting a champion, Steel Tempest will consume a stack of Hail of Blades.
The whirlwind is a missile and can therefore be intercepted.
Steel Tempest will only draw minion aggro if the first target is a champion.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
Steel Tempest maintains its casting angle direction in relation to Yasuo if he moves during the cast time.
Each parry has different interactions with this ability, whether it's the first target of Steel Tempest or the secondary one. In either case Yasuo still gains a stack of Gathering Storm and his whirlwind knock-up cannot be negated by parries:
Dodge: both first target and secondary target do not take damage.
Block: first target does not take damage, secondary target does take damage.
Blind: both first target and secondary target do take damage.
Steel Tempest rolls its critical strikes individually against each enemy hit.
Casting Last Breath during Steel Tempest will buffer it to cast after the cast time has completed.
However, if Last Breath is used on a target affected by an airborne source that is not Yasuo, it is cast immediately due to Steel Tempest's cast time ending prematurely. Steel Tempest will still cast in this case.
Spell shield does not prevent a stack of Gathering Storm from being gained.
While at two stacks, a range indicator will be shown for the effective range of the whirlwind.

Tips & tricks (2)

Casting Last Breath while buffering Steel Tempest during Sweeping Blade will also trigger the area of effect around Yasuo after the blink, thus avoiding the Gathering Storm stack reset and generating a stack of Gathering Storm if the area of effect hits an enemy around where Yasuo blinked to.
Dancing (default CTRL+3) during Steel Tempest's cast time will hide the animation but not cancel the ability.

Wind Wall

Cooldown: 25 / 23 / 21 / 19 / 17Cast time: 0.013Range: 0 - 350 • 450Effect radius: 300

Active: Yasuo raises a wall of wind in the target direction for 4 seconds that destroys all hostile non- turret projectiles that collide with it and grants sight of its surroundings.

Wall Width: 320 / 390 / 460 / 530 / 600

The wall travels in the targeted direction over the first 0.6 seconds, then drifts forward another 50 units over the remaining duration.

Targeting input: DirectionAffects: NoneProjectile: See Notes

Notes (4)

Wind Wall grants sight in a small static area in front of the cast location.
Wind Wall starts blocking projectiles on-cast (despite not being fully formed).
Wind Wall travels via a missile, and thus stops upon colliding with an enemy Wind Wall.
Yasuo can move during Wind Wall's cast time.

Map-specific differences (1)

Cooldown changed to 27 / 25 / 23 / 21 / 19 seconds.

Sweeping Blade

Cooldown: 0.5 / 0.4 / 0.3 / 0.2 / 0.1Cast time: noneTarget immunity: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6Target range: 475Range: 475 • 625Speed: 750 + 60% movement speedQueue threshold: 0.5

Active: Yasuo dashes a fixed distance in the direction of the target enemy and becomes ghosted for 2 seconds, refreshing on subsequent casts. Upon impact, he deals magic damage to the target and generates a stack of Ride the Wind for 5 seconds, which refreshes on subsequent hits and stacks up to 4 times.

Magic Damage: 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 (+ 20% bonus AD) (+ 60% AP)

Ride the Wind: Sweeping Blade's damage is increased by 25% per stack, up to 100% at maximum stacks.

Bonus Damage per Stack: 17.5 / 21.25 / 25 / 28.75 / 32.5 (+ 5% bonus AD) (+ 15% AP)
Maximum Bonus Damage: 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 (+ 20% bonus AD) (+ 60% AP)
Total Combined Damage: 140 / 170 / 200 / 230 / 260 (+ 40% bonus AD) (+ 120% AP)

Sweeping Blade can be cast on the same target only once every few seconds.

Yasuo will be knocked down by any immobilizing or polymorphing crowd control during the dash.

Last Breath can be cast during the dash.

Targeting input: UnitTarget out-of-range override: Walk in range of the target unit to castInsufficient dash range: Dash will gain bonus range through terrainAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: Ability damageDamage sub-types: MagicMinion Aggro: DrawnSpell shield: BlockedGrounded: DisabledKnockdown: Interrupted

Notes (5)

If Steel Tempest has been buffered, Wind Wall may also be cast during the dash.(unexpected)
Sweeping Blade will generate 7.5 Flow stacks per cast that travels the maximum distance.
Yasuo can use Sweeping Blade's fixed dash distance to cross walls both before and after hitting his target (provided his proximity to the wall and/or target allows it).
After Sweeping Blade, Yasuo becomes ghosted for a moment to prevent situations where he would face extreme cases of body block.
Sleep does not count for knocking the dash down.(bug)

Map-specific differences (1)

On-target cooldown halved.

Last Breath

Cooldown: 70 / 50 / 30Cast time: noneTarget range: 1400Effect radius: 400

Active: Yasuo blinks to the opposite side of a visible airborne enemy champion nearest to the cursor, instantly generating maximum Flow while resetting Gathering Storm stacks.

Upon arrival, he knocks up all nearby airborne enemy champions for 1 second, revealing them, becoming unable to act himself, and slashing them with his sword over the duration to deal physical damage thereafter. Surrounding enemy champions that become airborne during this time will also be affected by Last Breath through the remaining duration.

Physical Damage: 200 / 350 / 500 (+ 150% bonus AD)

For the next 15 seconds, the damage dealt by Yasuo's critical strikes ignores 60% of the target's bonus armor.

A nearby airborne enemy champion is required to cast this ability. If Yasuo would blink inside the attack range of an enemy turret (including the Nexus Obelisk), Last Breath will instead attempt to position him outside of it.

Targeting input: Unit / ProximityTarget out-of-range override: The ability will not cast/select a targetAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Ability damageDamage sub-types: PhysicalMinion Aggro: Not DrawnSpell shield: See NotesGrounded: Disabled

Notes (30)

Last Breath can be cast on targets suspended in mid-air by Nami's Aqua Prison's stun.
The wiki has adopted the term suspension for this unique property due to a statement by Yasuo's designer.[1]
The percentage bonus armor ignorance stacks additively with sources of percentage armor penetration.(unexpected)
Yasuo gains the bonus armor ignorance on-cast.
Last Breath requires the target to be affected by airborne from an enemy source, and simultaneously that the target is not considered cc-immune, displacement immune, or untargetable during it.
Last Breath cannot be cast if there are no nearby enemy champions that meet the conditions.
Attempting to cast the ability on an enemy champion that is not airborne will indicate that they "Must Be Airborne!".
Spell shield will not prevent Last Breath from being cast and the target will be knocked up and dealt the damage.
The spell shield is still consumed in this case.(unexpected)
Self-applied or allied-applied displacements do not allow Last Breath to target the champion. Those applied by the neutral team (e.g. Dragon's initial knock back) can be targeted.
An indicator will be placed towards enemy champions that meet the cast conditions within range of Last Breath to signify the ability can be cast.
The Hextech Ultimatum will prevent Yasuo from casting Last Breath on an airborne enemy champion far outside its borders.
Yasuo can only do so if the airborne enemy champion is positioned slightly outside of the borders.
Upon Last Breath's cast, the targets' facing directions snap to Yasuo. Afterwards, their facing directions shift in all other directions every 0.25 seconds over the duration of the airborne.
The last shift snaps them to the facing direction of the second one.
On the Nightbringer Yasuo skin, these shifts in facing direction do not occur, but the targets' facing directions will still snap to Yasuo upon Last Breath's cast.
Yasuo does not need sight of airborne enemy champions near his target to affect them with Last Breath.
Last Breath applies its damage and removes any forced movement(unexpected) on the targets when it ends, including if it is removed early by being cleansed.
This is in contrast to most other effects with airborne, which have their forced movement linger if the disabling debuff is removed and have to be overridden by another movement spell (such as Lucian's Relentless Pursuit or Flash).
Terrain displacing abilities (e.g. Weaver's Wall, Pillar of Ice, Volcanic Rupture) that affect enemy champions are considered airborne, and will therefore interact with Last Breath.
While blinking, Yasuo creates an untargetable clone of himself that cues a dashing animation (similar to Sweeping Blade's) towards the target. This unit's rules do not follow those of a clone's. As such, it is more alike a champion, unless special cased.
While performing Last Breath, Yasuo is locked out of performing actions.
The lock out will end prematurely if all targets:
Cleanse the knock up.
Move far away from Yasuo.
Leave Yasuo's sight (e.g. by nearsight).
Become untargetable.
Die.
Enter the Realm of Death.
The following table refers for interactions while Yasuo is locked out:

Stats and abilities from the League of Legends Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0), built for patch 26.22.

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Where it thrives (5-comp fit)

Attacknatural · 60%

Splitworkable · 40%

Catchworkable · 30%

Yasuo chains the fight with lockdown once contact is made. Enough Split and Catch sits in the kit to threaten a side lane once the map opens. Passive doubles crit chance from all sources and grants a conditional shield when taking damage at max Flow (built from movement).

Kit quirks

Passive doubles crit chance from all sources and grants a conditional shield when taking damage at max Flow (built from movement)

Q Steel Tempest's third cast (after 2 hits) becomes a knockup whirlwind, core to his all-in/wombo setup

W Wind Wall blocks all enemy non-turret projectiles for 4 seconds, a unique anti-poke/anti-ultimate defensive utility tool though it protects allies more than himself directly

W (Wind Wall) lasts a flat 4 seconds while Q (Steel Tempest)'s cooldown is a static 4-1.33s that only drops with bonus attack speed, not by rank — so a heavily-stacked build can safely re-cast Q multiple times behind a single Wind Wall.

E (Sweeping Blade) dashes a fixed 475 units regardless of the target's distance and grants 2 seconds of unit-collision immunity, letting Yasuo wall-hop specific jungle terrain and shove through a waveclog uninterrupted.

Champion reference

Base stats and every ability with its per-rank values and ratios. Search all champions →

Yasuo — The Unforgiven

Class: Skirmisher
Resource: Flow
Range type: Melee
Adaptive type: Physical
Positions: Top, Middle, Bottom
Released: 2013-12-13 (V3.15)
Last changed: V26.22
Price: 675 BE · 585 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	590	+110	2460
Health regen (per 5s)	6.5	+0.9	21.8
Flow	100	—	100
Flow regen (per 5s)	0	—	0
Armor	32	+4.6	110.2
Magic resist	32	+2.05	66.85
Attack damage	60	+2.5	102.5
Attack speed	0.697	+3.5%	1.096
Attack speed ratio	0.67
Attack range	175
Movement speed	345

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Acquisition radius: 400
Selection height: 180
Selection radius: 120
Pathing radius: 32
Critical strike damage modifier: 0.95
Attack delay offset: -0.08

ARAM: total attack speed ×1.025

URF: damage taken ×0.9

Abilities

Passive

Way of the Wanderer

Yasuo's critical strikes deal only「 (190% + 28.5%) AD physical damage. 」「 95% of the critical damage champions usually have. 」

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: Self

Notes (4)

Yasuo gains the shield before the damage instance; the shield will mitigate the damage that triggered it.
Yasuo is able to reach 100% critical strike chance with Way of the Wanderer's multiplier after obtaining a total of 50% critical strike chance.
Yasuo's secondary resource bar will display the amount of shield stored as an equivalent percentage to his Flow stacks. (Each Flow stack will add 1.25 – 6.74 (based on level) to the bar)
Upon taking damage, the bar will display his current shield strength.

Tips & tricks (2)

Taking into account Yasuo's 345 base movement speed and assuming he's constantly moving, it will take 17.1 / 15.22 / 13.33 (based on level) seconds to generate 100 Flow stacks.
Taking into account the 45 bonus movement speed that most Tier 2 boots grant (resulting in 390 total movement speed), it will take 15.13 / 13.46 / 11.79 (based on level) seconds to generate 100 Flow stacks.

Steel Tempest

Physical Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ 100% AD)
Critical Strike Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ (190% + 28.5%) AD)

Gathering Storm Bonus: Yasuo unleashes a whirlwind in the target direction that applies and triggers the same effects and additionally knocks up enemies hit for 0.9 seconds.

Steel Tempest's thrust will fail to hit targets after the cast time if Yasuo was affected by disarming crowd control during it, but the cooldown of the ability is reset to 0.1 seconds.

Targeting input: Direction • AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: See NotesDamage sub-types: PhysicalMinion Aggro: See NotesSpell shield: BlockedParries: See NotesProjectile: See Notes

Notes (24)

This ability always employs Quick cast.
Casting Sweeping Blade when Steel Tempest's remaining cooldown is less than 0.5 seconds resets this remaining cooldown to allow casting it in combination, but adds the refunded time to Steel Tempest's cooldown.
If Yasuo blinks during Sweeping Blade after having buffered Steel Tempest during it, he will perform the slash at the blink location, applying Steel Tempest's effects to enemies in the area at the time.
If Yasuo becomes unable to cast abilities during Sweeping Blade's dash after buffering Steel Tempest, Steel Tempest will not cast, but will still go on cooldown.(unexpected)
The whirlwind from consuming stacks of Gathering Storm can strike targets whose center is behind Yasuo, unlike most missiles.
Steel Tempest applies basic damage to the first (closest) enemy hit and area damage to secondary enemies:
Steel Tempest will not apply spell effects to the first target hit, but will do so to the secondary ones.
Spell vamp will only grant healing from the damage dealt to secondary targets, and healing is reduced to 33% effectiveness, accordingly.
Life steal will heal based on the damage dealt to the first target hit.
If the first target hit by Steel Tempest is a champion, Hail of Blades will be triggered or refresh its buff duration.
Once per cast instance, upon hitting a champion, Steel Tempest will consume a stack of Hail of Blades.
The whirlwind is a missile and can therefore be intercepted.
Steel Tempest will only draw minion aggro if the first target is a champion.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
Steel Tempest maintains its casting angle direction in relation to Yasuo if he moves during the cast time.
Each parry has different interactions with this ability, whether it's the first target of Steel Tempest or the secondary one. In either case Yasuo still gains a stack of Gathering Storm and his whirlwind knock-up cannot be negated by parries:
Dodge: both first target and secondary target do not take damage.
Block: first target does not take damage, secondary target does take damage.
Blind: both first target and secondary target do take damage.
Steel Tempest rolls its critical strikes individually against each enemy hit.
Casting Last Breath during Steel Tempest will buffer it to cast after the cast time has completed.
However, if Last Breath is used on a target affected by an airborne source that is not Yasuo, it is cast immediately due to Steel Tempest's cast time ending prematurely. Steel Tempest will still cast in this case.
Spell shield does not prevent a stack of Gathering Storm from being gained.
While at two stacks, a range indicator will be shown for the effective range of the whirlwind.

Tips & tricks (2)

Casting Last Breath while buffering Steel Tempest during Sweeping Blade will also trigger the area of effect around Yasuo after the blink, thus avoiding the Gathering Storm stack reset and generating a stack of Gathering Storm if the area of effect hits an enemy around where Yasuo blinked to.
Dancing (default CTRL+3) during Steel Tempest's cast time will hide the animation but not cancel the ability.

Steel Tempest

Physical Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ 100% AD)
Critical Strike Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ (190% + 28.5%) AD)

Gathering Storm Bonus: Yasuo unleashes a whirlwind in the target direction that applies and triggers the same effects and additionally knocks up enemies hit for 0.9 seconds.

Steel Tempest's thrust will fail to hit targets after the cast time if Yasuo was affected by disarming crowd control during it, but the cooldown of the ability is reset to 0.1 seconds.

Targeting input: Direction • AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: See NotesDamage sub-types: PhysicalMinion Aggro: See NotesSpell shield: BlockedParries: See NotesProjectile: See Notes

Notes (24)

This ability always employs Quick cast.
Casting Sweeping Blade when Steel Tempest's remaining cooldown is less than 0.5 seconds resets this remaining cooldown to allow casting it in combination, but adds the refunded time to Steel Tempest's cooldown.
If Yasuo blinks during Sweeping Blade after having buffered Steel Tempest during it, he will perform the slash at the blink location, applying Steel Tempest's effects to enemies in the area at the time.
If Yasuo becomes unable to cast abilities during Sweeping Blade's dash after buffering Steel Tempest, Steel Tempest will not cast, but will still go on cooldown.(unexpected)
The whirlwind from consuming stacks of Gathering Storm can strike targets whose center is behind Yasuo, unlike most missiles.
Steel Tempest applies basic damage to the first (closest) enemy hit and area damage to secondary enemies:
Steel Tempest will not apply spell effects to the first target hit, but will do so to the secondary ones.
Spell vamp will only grant healing from the damage dealt to secondary targets, and healing is reduced to 33% effectiveness, accordingly.
Life steal will heal based on the damage dealt to the first target hit.
If the first target hit by Steel Tempest is a champion, Hail of Blades will be triggered or refresh its buff duration.
Once per cast instance, upon hitting a champion, Steel Tempest will consume a stack of Hail of Blades.
The whirlwind is a missile and can therefore be intercepted.
Steel Tempest will only draw minion aggro if the first target is a champion.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
Steel Tempest maintains its casting angle direction in relation to Yasuo if he moves during the cast time.
Each parry has different interactions with this ability, whether it's the first target of Steel Tempest or the secondary one. In either case Yasuo still gains a stack of Gathering Storm and his whirlwind knock-up cannot be negated by parries:
Dodge: both first target and secondary target do not take damage.
Block: first target does not take damage, secondary target does take damage.
Blind: both first target and secondary target do take damage.
Steel Tempest rolls its critical strikes individually against each enemy hit.
Casting Last Breath during Steel Tempest will buffer it to cast after the cast time has completed.
However, if Last Breath is used on a target affected by an airborne source that is not Yasuo, it is cast immediately due to Steel Tempest's cast time ending prematurely. Steel Tempest will still cast in this case.
Spell shield does not prevent a stack of Gathering Storm from being gained.
While at two stacks, a range indicator will be shown for the effective range of the whirlwind.

Tips & tricks (2)

Casting Last Breath while buffering Steel Tempest during Sweeping Blade will also trigger the area of effect around Yasuo after the blink, thus avoiding the Gathering Storm stack reset and generating a stack of Gathering Storm if the area of effect hits an enemy around where Yasuo blinked to.
Dancing (default CTRL+3) during Steel Tempest's cast time will hide the animation but not cancel the ability.

Steel Tempest

Physical Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ 100% AD)
Critical Strike Damage: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ (190% + 28.5%) AD)

Gathering Storm Bonus: Yasuo unleashes a whirlwind in the target direction that applies and triggers the same effects and additionally knocks up enemies hit for 0.9 seconds.

Steel Tempest's thrust will fail to hit targets after the cast time if Yasuo was affected by disarming crowd control during it, but the cooldown of the ability is reset to 0.1 seconds.

Targeting input: Direction • AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: See NotesDamage sub-types: PhysicalMinion Aggro: See NotesSpell shield: BlockedParries: See NotesProjectile: See Notes

Notes (24)

This ability always employs Quick cast.
Casting Sweeping Blade when Steel Tempest's remaining cooldown is less than 0.5 seconds resets this remaining cooldown to allow casting it in combination, but adds the refunded time to Steel Tempest's cooldown.
If Yasuo blinks during Sweeping Blade after having buffered Steel Tempest during it, he will perform the slash at the blink location, applying Steel Tempest's effects to enemies in the area at the time.
If Yasuo becomes unable to cast abilities during Sweeping Blade's dash after buffering Steel Tempest, Steel Tempest will not cast, but will still go on cooldown.(unexpected)
The whirlwind from consuming stacks of Gathering Storm can strike targets whose center is behind Yasuo, unlike most missiles.
Steel Tempest applies basic damage to the first (closest) enemy hit and area damage to secondary enemies:
Steel Tempest will not apply spell effects to the first target hit, but will do so to the secondary ones.
Spell vamp will only grant healing from the damage dealt to secondary targets, and healing is reduced to 33% effectiveness, accordingly.
Life steal will heal based on the damage dealt to the first target hit.
If the first target hit by Steel Tempest is a champion, Hail of Blades will be triggered or refresh its buff duration.
Once per cast instance, upon hitting a champion, Steel Tempest will consume a stack of Hail of Blades.
The whirlwind is a missile and can therefore be intercepted.
Steel Tempest will only draw minion aggro if the first target is a champion.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
Steel Tempest maintains its casting angle direction in relation to Yasuo if he moves during the cast time.
Each parry has different interactions with this ability, whether it's the first target of Steel Tempest or the secondary one. In either case Yasuo still gains a stack of Gathering Storm and his whirlwind knock-up cannot be negated by parries:
Dodge: both first target and secondary target do not take damage.
Block: first target does not take damage, secondary target does take damage.
Blind: both first target and secondary target do take damage.
Steel Tempest rolls its critical strikes individually against each enemy hit.
Casting Last Breath during Steel Tempest will buffer it to cast after the cast time has completed.
However, if Last Breath is used on a target affected by an airborne source that is not Yasuo, it is cast immediately due to Steel Tempest's cast time ending prematurely. Steel Tempest will still cast in this case.
Spell shield does not prevent a stack of Gathering Storm from being gained.
While at two stacks, a range indicator will be shown for the effective range of the whirlwind.

Tips & tricks (2)

Casting Last Breath while buffering Steel Tempest during Sweeping Blade will also trigger the area of effect around Yasuo after the blink, thus avoiding the Gathering Storm stack reset and generating a stack of Gathering Storm if the area of effect hits an enemy around where Yasuo blinked to.
Dancing (default CTRL+3) during Steel Tempest's cast time will hide the animation but not cancel the ability.

Wind Wall

Cooldown: 25 / 23 / 21 / 19 / 17Cast time: 0.013Range: 0 - 350 • 450Effect radius: 300

Active: Yasuo raises a wall of wind in the target direction for 4 seconds that destroys all hostile non- turret projectiles that collide with it and grants sight of its surroundings.

Wall Width: 320 / 390 / 460 / 530 / 600

The wall travels in the targeted direction over the first 0.6 seconds, then drifts forward another 50 units over the remaining duration.

Targeting input: DirectionAffects: NoneProjectile: See Notes

Notes (4)

Wind Wall grants sight in a small static area in front of the cast location.
Wind Wall starts blocking projectiles on-cast (despite not being fully formed).
Wind Wall travels via a missile, and thus stops upon colliding with an enemy Wind Wall.
Yasuo can move during Wind Wall's cast time.

Map-specific differences (1)

Cooldown changed to 27 / 25 / 23 / 21 / 19 seconds.

Sweeping Blade

Cooldown: 0.5 / 0.4 / 0.3 / 0.2 / 0.1Cast time: noneTarget immunity: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6Target range: 475Range: 475 • 625Speed: 750 + 60% movement speedQueue threshold: 0.5

Magic Damage: 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 (+ 20% bonus AD) (+ 60% AP)

Ride the Wind: Sweeping Blade's damage is increased by 25% per stack, up to 100% at maximum stacks.

Bonus Damage per Stack: 17.5 / 21.25 / 25 / 28.75 / 32.5 (+ 5% bonus AD) (+ 15% AP)
Maximum Bonus Damage: 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 (+ 20% bonus AD) (+ 60% AP)
Total Combined Damage: 140 / 170 / 200 / 230 / 260 (+ 40% bonus AD) (+ 120% AP)

Sweeping Blade can be cast on the same target only once every few seconds.

Yasuo will be knocked down by any immobilizing or polymorphing crowd control during the dash.

Last Breath can be cast during the dash.

Notes (5)

If Steel Tempest has been buffered, Wind Wall may also be cast during the dash.(unexpected)
Sweeping Blade will generate 7.5 Flow stacks per cast that travels the maximum distance.
Yasuo can use Sweeping Blade's fixed dash distance to cross walls both before and after hitting his target (provided his proximity to the wall and/or target allows it).
After Sweeping Blade, Yasuo becomes ghosted for a moment to prevent situations where he would face extreme cases of body block.
Sleep does not count for knocking the dash down.(bug)

Map-specific differences (1)

On-target cooldown halved.

Last Breath

Cooldown: 70 / 50 / 30Cast time: noneTarget range: 1400Effect radius: 400

Active: Yasuo blinks to the opposite side of a visible airborne enemy champion nearest to the cursor, instantly generating maximum Flow while resetting Gathering Storm stacks.

Physical Damage: 200 / 350 / 500 (+ 150% bonus AD)

For the next 15 seconds, the damage dealt by Yasuo's critical strikes ignores 60% of the target's bonus armor.

Notes (30)

Last Breath can be cast on targets suspended in mid-air by Nami's Aqua Prison's stun.
The wiki has adopted the term suspension for this unique property due to a statement by Yasuo's designer.[1]
The percentage bonus armor ignorance stacks additively with sources of percentage armor penetration.(unexpected)
Yasuo gains the bonus armor ignorance on-cast.
Last Breath requires the target to be affected by airborne from an enemy source, and simultaneously that the target is not considered cc-immune, displacement immune, or untargetable during it.
Last Breath cannot be cast if there are no nearby enemy champions that meet the conditions.
Attempting to cast the ability on an enemy champion that is not airborne will indicate that they "Must Be Airborne!".
Spell shield will not prevent Last Breath from being cast and the target will be knocked up and dealt the damage.
The spell shield is still consumed in this case.(unexpected)
Self-applied or allied-applied displacements do not allow Last Breath to target the champion. Those applied by the neutral team (e.g. Dragon's initial knock back) can be targeted.
An indicator will be placed towards enemy champions that meet the cast conditions within range of Last Breath to signify the ability can be cast.
The Hextech Ultimatum will prevent Yasuo from casting Last Breath on an airborne enemy champion far outside its borders.
Yasuo can only do so if the airborne enemy champion is positioned slightly outside of the borders.
Upon Last Breath's cast, the targets' facing directions snap to Yasuo. Afterwards, their facing directions shift in all other directions every 0.25 seconds over the duration of the airborne.
The last shift snaps them to the facing direction of the second one.
On the Nightbringer Yasuo skin, these shifts in facing direction do not occur, but the targets' facing directions will still snap to Yasuo upon Last Breath's cast.
Yasuo does not need sight of airborne enemy champions near his target to affect them with Last Breath.
Last Breath applies its damage and removes any forced movement(unexpected) on the targets when it ends, including if it is removed early by being cleansed.
This is in contrast to most other effects with airborne, which have their forced movement linger if the disabling debuff is removed and have to be overridden by another movement spell (such as Lucian's Relentless Pursuit or Flash).
Terrain displacing abilities (e.g. Weaver's Wall, Pillar of Ice, Volcanic Rupture) that affect enemy champions are considered airborne, and will therefore interact with Last Breath.
While blinking, Yasuo creates an untargetable clone of himself that cues a dashing animation (similar to Sweeping Blade's) towards the target. This unit's rules do not follow those of a clone's. As such, it is more alike a champion, unless special cased.
While performing Last Breath, Yasuo is locked out of performing actions.
The lock out will end prematurely if all targets:
Cleanse the knock up.
Move far away from Yasuo.
Leave Yasuo's sight (e.g. by nearsight).
Become untargetable.
Die.
Enter the Realm of Death.
The following table refers for interactions while Yasuo is locked out:

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