The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Mid Line YASUO. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Long Sword. Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy
Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Long Sword
+12 Attack Damage
500
Bloodthirster
Gain shields, Armor and Magic Resist at low Health
+45 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35% Health
preemptively grants a shield that absorbs 220-530 damage (
), 10 Armor and 10 Magic Resist for 5s. (90s Cooldown)
Bloody:
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp.
3100
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a core pick for auto‑attackers who value both damage and durability. It greatly boosts your attack power, critical chance, and attack speed, turning every hit into self‑heal, and at low health provides a powerful shield with extra defensive bonuses. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to dish out damage and survive clutch moments.
Berserker's Greaves
Attack Speed
+15 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
+45 Move Speed.
Blessed Blade: Reduces Attacks restore 8 Health on hit.
1400
Berserker's Greaves TIPS: These boots grant a significant boost to attack speed and movement speed, while empowering your basic attacks with on‑hit life steal. — A great pick for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who need mobility, rapid attack cadence, and constant sustain in fights.
Infinity Edge
Increases Critical Strike Damage
+60 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
Infinity: Critical Strikes deal 205% damage instead of 175%.
Limit Break: When your total
gain from items exceeds 100%, every 1% excess
grants 0.6 bonus Critical Damage.
3400
Infinity Edge TIPS: This item greatly amplifies your auto‑attack power by boosting the base damage of critical strikes and granting extra critical damage when your total crit chance from items is capped. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters looking to maximize their crit damage and squeeze even more value out of high crit chance builds.
Berserker's Greaves
Attack Speed
+15 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
+45 Move Speed.
Blessed Blade: Reduces Attacks restore 8 Health on hit.
1400
Berserker's Greaves TIPS: These boots grant a significant boost to attack speed and movement speed, while empowering your basic attacks with on‑hit life steal. — A great pick for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who need mobility, rapid attack cadence, and constant sustain in fights.
Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage
+200 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+35 Magic Resistance
+45 Move Speed.
Dissolve: Reduces magic damage taken from champions by 3-12% (
).
1350
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots provide solid magic damage reduction, enhanced regeneration, and movement speed, with a passive that further lessens incoming magic damage. — The perfect pick for tanks, bruisers, and supports who need to withstand heavy AP threats while maintaining mobility.
Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown)
1000
Stasis Enchant TIPS: This Enchant renders you invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 s, but prevents movement, attacks, and ability or item use. Perfect for surviving critical moments against assassins and high burst damage.
Galeforce
Grants a dash and damage bonus
Cloudburst (Active): Dash in a target direction and fire 3 missile(s) at the lowest Health enemy near your destination, prioritizing champions. Deal physical damage equal to 50-150 (
) plus 45% bonus
. (50s cooldown)
500
Galeforce TIPS: This enchant is perfect for marksmen and assassins who need both mobility and execution damage. The active dash closes gaps instantly, then a volley of missiles locks onto the lowest-health target, securing kills or enabling a swift escape.
Bloodthirster (Gain shields, Armor and Magic Resist at low Health) as your first item, followed by
Berserker's Greaves (Grants Attack Speed) or
Mercury's Treads (Reduces Magic Damage) depending on the situation. (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is
Infinity Edge (Increases Critical Strike Damage).
Stasis Enchant (Turn invulnerable). You may want to replace it with
Galeforce (Grants a dash and damage bonus), it all depends on your playstyle and the situation on the battlefield.
Bloodthirster
Gain shields, Armor and Magic Resist at low Health
+45 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35% Health
preemptively grants a shield that absorbs 220-530 damage (
), 10 Armor and 10 Magic Resist for 5s. (90s Cooldown)
Bloody:
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp.
3100
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a core pick for auto‑attackers who value both damage and durability. It greatly boosts your attack power, critical chance, and attack speed, turning every hit into self‑heal, and at low health provides a powerful shield with extra defensive bonuses. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to dish out damage and survive clutch moments.
Berserker's Greaves
Attack Speed
+15 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
+45 Move Speed.
Blessed Blade: Reduces Attacks restore 8 Health on hit.
1400
Berserker's Greaves TIPS: These boots grant a significant boost to attack speed and movement speed, while empowering your basic attacks with on‑hit life steal. — A great pick for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who need mobility, rapid attack cadence, and constant sustain in fights.
Infinity Edge
Increases Critical Strike Damage
+60 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
Infinity: Critical Strikes deal 205% damage instead of 175%.
Limit Break: When your total
gain from items exceeds 100%, every 1% excess
grants 0.6 bonus Critical Damage.
3400
Infinity Edge TIPS: This item greatly amplifies your auto‑attack power by boosting the base damage of critical strikes and granting extra critical damage when your total crit chance from items is capped. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters looking to maximize their crit damage and squeeze even more value out of high crit chance builds.
Yordle Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Dance: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 10% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 30% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 4 seconds as true damage instead.
3000
Yordle Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing
+25 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
Last Whisper:
+30% Armor Penetration. Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional
6% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Yordle Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Dance: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 10% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 30% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 4 seconds as true damage instead.
3000
Yordle Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Trinity Force
Well-Rounded
+250 Max Health
+30 Attack Damage
+30% Attack Speed
+25 Ability Haste
Fervor:
+5% Move Speed.
Spellblade: Using an ability causes the next attack used within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to 200% base AD
(1.5s Cooldown). Damage is reduced vs structures.
Valor: Attacks grant 20 Move Speed and kills grant 60 Move Speed for 2 seconds. Bonuses do not stack. Ranged champions gain halved values.
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Trinity Force TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who frequently use both abilities and auto-attacks in combat. It provides bonuses to health, attack damage, attack speed, and ability haste, making it a versatile choice for fighters who are in the thick of the action. The "Spellblade" effect allows you to deal bonus physical damage after using an ability, enhancing your auto-attacks. The "Valor" effect grants bonus movement speed after attacks, making you more mobile in fights. This item is especially useful for champions who frequently use their abilities but also rely on auto-attacks to deal damage.
Trinity Force — This item is perfect for champions who frequently use both abilities and auto-attacks in combat. It provides bonuses to health, attack damage, attack speed, and ability haste, making it a versatile choice for fighters who are in the thick of the action. The "Spellblade" effect allows you to deal bonus physical damage after using an ability, enhancing your auto-attacks. The "Valor" effect grants bonus movement speed after attacks, making you more mobile in fights. This item is especially useful for champions who frequently use their abilities but also rely on auto-attacks to deal damage.
Yordle Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Dance: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 10% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 30% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 4 seconds as true damage instead.
3000
Yordle Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks
+425 Max Health
+25 Attack Damage
+25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next basic attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum damage equal to 125% base AD and a maximum damage against monsters equal to 225% base AD.
If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health and a minimum heal equal to (90% melee / 50% ranged) base AD (1.5 second cooldown, begins after using the empowered attack).
Limitations: Limited to 1 sheen item.
3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who actively use their abilities and auto-attacks to deal damage, such as fighters. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and ability haste, helping to improve survivability and increase damage. The "Spellblade" effect allows you to deal bonus physical damage based on the target’s maximum health after using an ability, and also heal when attacking enemy champions. This item helps you deal damage and sustain in fights, making it especially useful for extended engagements.
Divine Sunderer — This item is perfect for champions who actively use their abilities and auto-attacks to deal damage, such as fighters. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and ability haste, helping to improve survivability and increase damage. The "Spellblade" effect allows you to deal bonus physical damage based on the target’s maximum health after using an ability, and also heal when attacking enemy champions. This item helps you deal damage and sustain in fights, making it especially useful for extended engagements.
Yordle Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Dance: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 10% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 30% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 4 seconds as true damage instead.
3000
Yordle Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Blade of the Ruined King
Attacks deal bonus damage
+25 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
Thirst:
+10% Physical Vamp.
Ruined Strikes: Attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 7%
of the enemy's current Health
on-hit. (Melee attacks deal 10%). Minion damage: 15. Max damage vs monsters: 60.
Drain: Hitting a champion with 3 attacks or abilities deals 30-100 bonus magic damage and steals 25% of their Move Speed
for 2 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
3000
Blade of the Ruined King TIPS: This item is a great source of sustain with its lifesteal, but it is mostly picked for its ability to cut through tanks or champions who heavily stack health, like Dr. Mundo. "Ruined Strikes" deals bonus physical damage based on the enemy's current health, which helps break through high health pools. The "Drain" effect reduces the enemy's movement speed, deals bonus magic damage, and steals part of their speed, making it useful for maneuvering in fights and reducing the mobility of enemies.
Blade of the Ruined King — This item is a great source of sustain with its lifesteal, but it is mostly picked for its ability to cut through tanks or champions who heavily stack health, like Dr. Mundo. "Ruined Strikes" deals bonus physical damage based on the enemy's current health, which helps break through high health pools. The "Drain" effect reduces the enemy's movement speed, deals bonus magic damage, and steals part of their speed, making it useful for maneuvering in fights and reducing the mobility of enemies.
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing
+25 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
Last Whisper:
+30% Armor Penetration. Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional
6% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield
+55 Attack Damage
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Demonbane: 20% of the damage that your attack deals, or 15% of the physical damage that your abilities deal is converted into a magic shield that absorbs up to 60-400 magic damage
. The shield decays by 5% per second.
3000
Maw of Malmortius TIPS: This item is a great choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie, who can quickly take you down. It provides bonuses to attack damage, magic resistance, and ability haste, helping you resist magic damage. The "Demonbane" effect converts a portion of the physical damage you deal into a magic shield that absorbs magic damage, making it especially effective against both burst and sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.
Maw of Malmortius — This item is a great choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie, who can quickly take you down. It provides bonuses to attack damage, magic resistance, and ability haste, helping you resist magic damage. The "Demonbane" effect converts a portion of the physical damage you deal into a magic shield that absorbs magic damage, making it especially effective against both burst and sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability
+60 Armor
+60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor
by 30% and Magic Resistance
by 30% until out of combat with champion.
3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Amaranth's Twinguard — This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Randuin's Omen
Counters Critical Strike Damage
+400 Max Health
+75 Armor
Resilience: Critically Struck deal 20% less damage to you.
Countercurrent: Gain 1 stacks of Countercurrent when Critically Struck by physical damage. Each stuck grants 5% Movement Speed and 5% slow resist. Max 4 stacks.
2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Randuin's Omen — This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Kaenic Rookern
Gains a magic shield when out of combat
+350 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+75 Magic Resistance
Magebane: After not taking magic damage for 12 seconds, gain a magic shield that absorbs damage equal to 70-180 + 10% of max Health
.
2800
Kaenic Rookern TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need extra protection against magic damage, particularly when spending some time out of combat. It provides significant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance. The “Magebane” passive activates after 12 seconds without taking magic damage, granting you a magic shield that absorbs damage based on your maximum health. This allows you to safely recover between fights and confidently re-enter combat. It’s especially effective against teams heavy in AP damage.
Kaenic Rookern — This item is perfect for champions who need extra protection against magic damage, particularly when spending some time out of combat. It provides significant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance. The “Magebane” passive activates after 12 seconds without taking magic damage, granting you a magic shield that absorbs damage based on your maximum health. This allows you to safely recover between fights and confidently re-enter combat. It’s especially effective against teams heavy in AP damage.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Phantom Dancer
Movement speed and attack speed
+20 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+40% Attack Speed
Shadowwalk:
+5% Movement Speed.
Spectral Waltz: Gain 25% Attack Speed and +7% Movement Speed
for 3s when your attack hits a champion. Attacks that Critically Strike while the bonuses are active extend their duration by 1s. Bonuses do not stack. (20s cooldown, reduced by 1s per attack).
2800
Phantom Dancer TIPS: This item provides great attack and movement speed, enabling you to kite enemies effectively. Hitting a champion grants a burst of attack and movement speed, and critical strikes while the buff is active extend its duration, helping you stay in fights longer and dodge threats. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who need mobility and speed to dominate duels.
Phantom Dancer — This item provides great attack and movement speed, enabling you to kite enemies effectively. Hitting a champion grants a burst of attack and movement speed, and critical strikes while the buff is active extend its duration, helping you stay in fights longer and dodge threats. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who need mobility and speed to dominate duels.
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and
Ignite (Ignites target enemy champion, dealing true damageand applying Grievous Wounds for the duration. Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing) as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380
) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Cleanse
Removes disables (including spell debuffs) affecting your champion and grants immunity to disables for 0.25 seconds.
Cooldown: 110s
Lethal Tempo (Attack faster with each consecutive attack.) as your keystone, followed by
Nullifying Orb (Grants a shield when Health is low.),
Second Wind (Heals you after taking damage.) and
Overgrowth (Gains bonus scalable max Health.) in the primary tree, as well as
Legend: Alacrity (Gains Attack Speed.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Lethal Tempo
Attack Speed
Gain stacks of Attack Speed when attacking enemy champions. Stacks up to 6 times. At max stacks, you gain bonus range and can exceed the Attack Speed cap.
Each stack: increase 8-16% (Melee) or 3-12% (Ranged) Attack Speed for 6 seconds.
At max stack bonus: Gain 50 (Melee) or 75 (Ranged) Attack Distance.
Nullifying Orb
Shield when low health
If you would take damage from a champion that causes you to fall below 35% of your maximum health, grants a shield that absorbs up to 60-190 (
) damage for 4s.
Cooldown: 60s
Second Wind
Heal after taking damage
Gain 5 Health
every 5 seconds.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, regenerate 6 + (2% of your missing health)
over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.
Overgrowth
Bonus HP
When 2 minions or 1 monsters are killed nearby, permanently gains 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely. Gains a bonus 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Legend: Alacrity
Bonus Attack Speed
Gains 3% Attack Speed. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 20% Attack Speed.
Nullifying Orb
Shield when low health
If you would take damage from a champion that causes you to fall below 35% of your maximum health, grants a shield that absorbs up to 60-190 (
) damage for 4s.
Cooldown: 60s
Courage of the Colossus
Shield
Gains a shield that absorbs up to 25-45 (
) + 1% of max Health
for 3s when immobilizing an enemy champion.
Cooldown: 10s
Courage of the Colossus — The rune grants a shield that absorbs damage when you immobilize an enemy champion. The shield scales with your maximum health, making it perfect for champions with high survivability. It is especially useful for tanks or fighters who frequently control enemies and are at the center of fights. The rune helps improve survivability by providing additional protection when using crowd control abilities.
Second Wind
Heal after taking damage
Gain 5 Health
every 5 seconds.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, regenerate 6 + (2% of your missing health)
over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.
Bone Plating
Block Combo-damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 (
) less damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Bone Plating — The rune reduces damage from enemy attacks and abilities when you take damage from an enemy champion. It lowers damage from the next few attacks or abilities for a short period, making it useful for most champions, including tanks, fighters, and even some mages. The rune helps improve survivability by mitigating damage in critical moments of the fight, making it suitable for heroes who find themselves in the heart of battles.
Overgrowth
Bonus HP
When 2 minions or 1 monsters are killed nearby, permanently gains 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely. Gains a bonus 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Perseverance
Armor and Magic Resistance, Tenacity
Gain 10% Tenacity. When immobilized, gain 16-30 Armor and Magic Resistance (
) for 1.5 seconds. Refresh duration time when immobilized multiple times.
Perseverance — The rune increases your tenacity by 10%. When immobilized, it grants you bonus armor and magic resistance for a short period. The effect refreshes if you are immobilized multiple times, making the rune especially useful for champions who often find themselves under crowd control. It is ideal for tanks and fighters, enhancing their survivability in fights when they are subjected to multiple crowd control effects.
Legend: Alacrity
Bonus Attack Speed
Gains 3% Attack Speed. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 20% Attack Speed.
Giant Slayer
Takedown high health champions
Deal bonus damage based on the enemy champion’s bonus health, up to 16% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1600 bonus health.
Giant Slayer — The rune deals bonus damage based on the enemy champion's bonus health, up to 16% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1600 or more bonus health. It is perfect for champions who face enemies with high amounts of health, such as tanks. The rune helps effectively break through high health opponents, making it an excellent choice for damage-focused champions.
(Q) STEEL TEMPEST
4s
Thrusts forward, dealing 87 physical damage (25/55/85/115 + 105%
(Crit damage with
Infinity Edge: + 205%
)).
Grants a stack of Gathering Storm if the thrust damages an enemy. At 2 stacks, Steel Tempest launches a whirlwind that knocks enemies Airborne.
If tapped during Sweeping Blade's dash, Steel Tempest will strike as a circle.
Steel Tempest is treated as an attack: it can Critically Strike for 75% bonus damage and applies on-hit effects on the first unit hit. Cooldown and cast time are reduced by Attack Speed.
(W) WIND WALL
18s
Creates a 300/400/500/600 unit wall that blocks all enemy projectiles for 4 seconds.
(E) SWEEPING BLADE
0.4/0.3/0.2/0.1s
Dashes through target enemy, dealing 70 magic damage (70/80/90/100 + 20% bonus
+ 60%
). Each cast increases the next dash's base damage by 25%, up to +50%.
Cannot be re-cast on the same enemy for 7/6/5/4 seconds.
If Steel Tempest is tapped during this dash, it will strike as a circle.
(R) LAST BREATH
50/40/30s
Blinks to an Airborne enemy champion, dealing 250 physical damage (250/400/550 + 160% bonus
) and holding all Airborne enemies in the area in the air for an additional 1.25s. Grants maximum Flow but resets all stacks of Gathering Storm.
For the next 15s, Critical Strikes gain 50% Armor Penetration.
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Mid YASUO. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
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We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Mid YASUO in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage
+150 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+35 Armor
+45 Move Speed.
Block: Reduces physical damage taken from champions by 3-10% (
).
1350
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide solid protection against physical damage, boosting your durability and movement speed. The “Block” passive further reduces incoming basic attacks and physical damage from enemy champions. — The perfect pick for tanks, bruisers, and supports who need to soak up auto‑attacks while staying mobile in fights.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Randuin's Omen
Counters Critical Strike Damage
+400 Max Health
+75 Armor
Resilience: Critically Struck deal 20% less damage to you.
Countercurrent: Gain 1 stacks of Countercurrent when Critically Struck by physical damage. Each stuck grants 5% Movement Speed and 5% slow resist. Max 4 stacks.
2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+200 Max Health
+75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor
+ 2% bonus Health
magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Iceborn Gauntlet
Attacks create a slowing field
+250 Max Health
+50 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+30 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to (100% base AD
+ 25% Bonus Armor
) in an area. It also creates an icy field for 2 seconds that slows enemies inside by 30%. Armor increases the size of the icy field. (1.5s Cooldown)
Damage is reduced vs structures.
3100
Iceborn Gauntlet TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, armor, mana, and ability haste, making you much tankier. After casting an ability, your next attack in an area deals bonus physical damage and creates an icy field that slows enemies inside by 30%. The field’s size scales with your armor. This makes the item a great choice for champions who want to combine high survivability with crowd control and extra AOE damage.
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed
+80 Armor
+200 Max Mana
+25 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks.
2700
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown)
1000
Stasis Enchant TIPS: This Enchant renders you invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 s, but prevents movement, attacks, and ability or item use. Perfect for surviving critical moments against assassins and high burst damage.
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Solo Baron Line YASUO. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Long Sword. Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy
Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Long Sword
+12 Attack Damage
500
Blade of the Ruined King
Attacks deal bonus damage
+25 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
Thirst:
+10% Physical Vamp.
Ruined Strikes: Attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 7%
of the enemy's current Health
on-hit. (Melee attacks deal 10%). Minion damage: 15. Max damage vs monsters: 60.
Drain: Hitting a champion with 3 attacks or abilities deals 30-100 bonus magic damage and steals 25% of their Move Speed
for 2 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
3000
Blade of the Ruined King TIPS: This item is a great source of sustain with its lifesteal, but it is mostly picked for its ability to cut through tanks or champions who heavily stack health, like Dr. Mundo. "Ruined Strikes" deals bonus physical damage based on the enemy's current health, which helps break through high health pools. The "Drain" effect reduces the enemy's movement speed, deals bonus magic damage, and steals part of their speed, making it useful for maneuvering in fights and reducing the mobility of enemies.
Berserker's Greaves
Attack Speed
+15 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
+45 Move Speed.
Blessed Blade: Reduces Attacks restore 8 Health on hit.
1400
Berserker's Greaves TIPS: These boots grant a significant boost to attack speed and movement speed, while empowering your basic attacks with on‑hit life steal. — A great pick for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who need mobility, rapid attack cadence, and constant sustain in fights.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks
+425 Max Health
+25 Attack Damage
+25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next basic attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum damage equal to 125% base AD and a maximum damage against monsters equal to 225% base AD.
If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health and a minimum heal equal to (90% melee / 50% ranged) base AD (1.5 second cooldown, begins after using the empowered attack).
Limitations: Limited to 1 sheen item.
3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who actively use their abilities and auto-attacks to deal damage, such as fighters. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and ability haste, helping to improve survivability and increase damage. The "Spellblade" effect allows you to deal bonus physical damage based on the target’s maximum health after using an ability, and also heal when attacking enemy champions. This item helps you deal damage and sustain in fights, making it especially useful for extended engagements.
Berserker's Greaves
Attack Speed
+15 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
+45 Move Speed.
Blessed Blade: Reduces Attacks restore 8 Health on hit.
1400
Berserker's Greaves TIPS: These boots grant a significant boost to attack speed and movement speed, while empowering your basic attacks with on‑hit life steal. — A great pick for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who need mobility, rapid attack cadence, and constant sustain in fights.
Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage
+200 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+35 Magic Resistance
+45 Move Speed.
Dissolve: Reduces magic damage taken from champions by 3-12% (
).
1350
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots provide solid magic damage reduction, enhanced regeneration, and movement speed, with a passive that further lessens incoming magic damage. — The perfect pick for tanks, bruisers, and supports who need to withstand heavy AP threats while maintaining mobility.
Galeforce
Grants a dash and damage bonus
Cloudburst (Active): Dash in a target direction and fire 3 missile(s) at the lowest Health enemy near your destination, prioritizing champions. Deal physical damage equal to 50-150 (
) plus 45% bonus
. (50s cooldown)
500
Galeforce TIPS: This enchant is perfect for marksmen and assassins who need both mobility and execution damage. The active dash closes gaps instantly, then a volley of missiles locks onto the lowest-health target, securing kills or enabling a swift escape.
Stridebreaker
Slows enemies nearby after a short dash
Breaking Shockwave (Active): Activate to dash a short distance, dealing 150% Attack Damage as Physical Damage to nearby enemies and slowing them by 30% for 3s (35s cooldown)
500
Stridebreaker TIPS: This enchant grants a dash that deals AOE physical damage and applies a 30% slow for 3 seconds, perfect for engaging or chasing down targets.
Blade of the Ruined King (Attacks deal bonus damage) as your first item, followed by
Berserker's Greaves (Grants Attack Speed) or
Mercury's Treads (Reduces Magic Damage) depending on the situation. (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is
Divine Sunderer (Anti-Health attacks).
Galeforce (Grants a dash and damage bonus). You may want to replace it with
Stridebreaker (Slows enemies nearby after a short dash), it all depends on your playstyle and the situation on the battlefield.
Blade of the Ruined King
Attacks deal bonus damage
+25 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
Thirst:
+10% Physical Vamp.
Ruined Strikes: Attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 7%
of the enemy's current Health
on-hit. (Melee attacks deal 10%). Minion damage: 15. Max damage vs monsters: 60.
Drain: Hitting a champion with 3 attacks or abilities deals 30-100 bonus magic damage and steals 25% of their Move Speed
for 2 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
3000
Blade of the Ruined King TIPS: This item is a great source of sustain with its lifesteal, but it is mostly picked for its ability to cut through tanks or champions who heavily stack health, like Dr. Mundo. "Ruined Strikes" deals bonus physical damage based on the enemy's current health, which helps break through high health pools. The "Drain" effect reduces the enemy's movement speed, deals bonus magic damage, and steals part of their speed, making it useful for maneuvering in fights and reducing the mobility of enemies.
Berserker's Greaves
Attack Speed
+15 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
+45 Move Speed.
Blessed Blade: Reduces Attacks restore 8 Health on hit.
1400
Berserker's Greaves TIPS: These boots grant a significant boost to attack speed and movement speed, while empowering your basic attacks with on‑hit life steal. — A great pick for marksmen and auto‑attack bruisers who need mobility, rapid attack cadence, and constant sustain in fights.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks
+425 Max Health
+25 Attack Damage
+25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next basic attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum damage equal to 125% base AD and a maximum damage against monsters equal to 225% base AD.
If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health and a minimum heal equal to (90% melee / 50% ranged) base AD (1.5 second cooldown, begins after using the empowered attack).
Limitations: Limited to 1 sheen item.
3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who actively use their abilities and auto-attacks to deal damage, such as fighters. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and ability haste, helping to improve survivability and increase damage. The "Spellblade" effect allows you to deal bonus physical damage based on the target’s maximum health after using an ability, and also heal when attacking enemy champions. This item helps you deal damage and sustain in fights, making it especially useful for extended engagements.
Wit's End
Basic Attack deals Bonus Damage
+45% Attack Speed
+45 Magic Resistance
At Wit's End: Basic attacks deal 10-55 bonus magic damage. While below 50%
Health, dealing damage to an enemy champion heals you for (Melee 100%/Range 33%) of this effect's post-mitigation damage.
2800
Wit's End TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who want to deal sustained damage and have some defensive stats against magic damage threats. It provides bonuses to attack speed and magic resistance, as well as adding magic damage to your auto-attacks, making it effective against magic-based threats. The "While below 50% Health" effect heals you when dealing damage to an enemy champion, increasing survivability in fights. This item is especially useful for champions like Vayne, Irelia, or Master Yi, who can benefit from its on-hit magic damage and health restoration effect.
Yordle Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Dance: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 10% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 30% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 4 seconds as true damage instead.
3000
Yordle Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Wit's End
Basic Attack deals Bonus Damage
+45% Attack Speed
+45 Magic Resistance
At Wit's End: Basic attacks deal 10-55 bonus magic damage. While below 50%
Health, dealing damage to an enemy champion heals you for (Melee 100%/Range 33%) of this effect's post-mitigation damage.
2800
Wit's End TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who want to deal sustained damage and have some defensive stats against magic damage threats. It provides bonuses to attack speed and magic resistance, as well as adding magic damage to your auto-attacks, making it effective against magic-based threats. The "While below 50% Health" effect heals you when dealing damage to an enemy champion, increasing survivability in fights. This item is especially useful for champions like Vayne, Irelia, or Master Yi, who can benefit from its on-hit magic damage and health restoration effect.
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing
+25 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
Last Whisper:
+30% Armor Penetration. Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional
6% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Mortal Reminder — This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield
+55 Attack Damage
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Demonbane: 20% of the damage that your attack deals, or 15% of the physical damage that your abilities deal is converted into a magic shield that absorbs up to 60-400 magic damage
. The shield decays by 5% per second.
3000
Maw of Malmortius TIPS: This item is a great choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie, who can quickly take you down. It provides bonuses to attack damage, magic resistance, and ability haste, helping you resist magic damage. The "Demonbane" effect converts a portion of the physical damage you deal into a magic shield that absorbs magic damage, making it especially effective against both burst and sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.
Maw of Malmortius — This item is a great choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie, who can quickly take you down. It provides bonuses to attack damage, magic resistance, and ability haste, helping you resist magic damage. The "Demonbane" effect converts a portion of the physical damage you deal into a magic shield that absorbs magic damage, making it especially effective against both burst and sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability
+60 Armor
+60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor
by 30% and Magic Resistance
by 30% until out of combat with champion.
3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Amaranth's Twinguard — This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Kaenic Rookern
Gains a magic shield when out of combat
+350 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+75 Magic Resistance
Magebane: After not taking magic damage for 12 seconds, gain a magic shield that absorbs damage equal to 70-180 + 10% of max Health
.
2800
Kaenic Rookern TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need extra protection against magic damage, particularly when spending some time out of combat. It provides significant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance. The “Magebane” passive activates after 12 seconds without taking magic damage, granting you a magic shield that absorbs damage based on your maximum health. This allows you to safely recover between fights and confidently re-enter combat. It’s especially effective against teams heavy in AP damage.
Kaenic Rookern — This item is perfect for champions who need extra protection against magic damage, particularly when spending some time out of combat. It provides significant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance. The “Magebane” passive activates after 12 seconds without taking magic damage, granting you a magic shield that absorbs damage based on your maximum health. This allows you to safely recover between fights and confidently re-enter combat. It’s especially effective against teams heavy in AP damage.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Hullbreaker
Split-pushing power
+400 Max Health
+50 Attack Damage
Set Sail: Gain 5% Movement Speed.
Skipper: Every 4th attack against champions and epic monsters deals bonus physical damage equal to 160% base
plus 5%
(ranged champions deal 40% of the damage), increased to 240% base
plus 9%
against structures (ranged champions deal 40% of the damage).
Boarding Party: Nearby allied siege and super minions gain 20-130 Armor
(25% bonus if you're a ranged champion) and 10-120 Magic Resistance
(
) (25% bonus if you're a ranged champion).
3100
Hullbreaker TIPS: This item is the cornerstone of a powerful split‑push strategy. It provides significant health and attack damage, boosting both your survivability and tower‑breaking potential. The “Set Sail” passive steadily increases your movement speed, helping you rotate between lanes and avoid ganks. Every fifth attack on champions or epic monsters triggers “Skipper”, dealing hefty bonus physical damage—and even more against structures—making it indispensable for rapid turret takedowns. Additionally, “Boarding Party” buffs nearby allied siege and super minions with extra resistances, amplifying your split‑push threat. Perfect for solo laners who want to apply pressure on the map and force enemy responses without directly joining teamfights.
Hullbreaker — This item is the cornerstone of a powerful split‑push strategy. It provides significant health and attack damage, boosting both your survivability and tower‑breaking potential. The “Set Sail” passive steadily increases your movement speed, helping you rotate between lanes and avoid ganks. Every fifth attack on champions or epic monsters triggers “Skipper”, dealing hefty bonus physical damage—and even more against structures—making it indispensable for rapid turret takedowns. Additionally, “Boarding Party” buffs nearby allied siege and super minions with extra resistances, amplifying your split‑push threat. Perfect for solo laners who want to apply pressure on the map and force enemy responses without directly joining teamfights.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Randuin's Omen
Counters Critical Strike Damage
+400 Max Health
+75 Armor
Resilience: Critically Struck deal 20% less damage to you.
Countercurrent: Gain 1 stacks of Countercurrent when Critically Struck by physical damage. Each stuck grants 5% Movement Speed and 5% slow resist. Max 4 stacks.
2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Randuin's Omen — This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and
Ignite (Ignites target enemy champion, dealing true damageand applying Grievous Wounds for the duration. Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing) as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380
) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Teleport
After channeling for 3.5 seconds, teleport your champion to an allied champion, structure, or ward (excludes areas in range of enemy inhibitors). You can only teleport to structures during the first 6 minutes of the game.
Cooldown: 150s
Grasp of Undying (When in combat, your next attack on a champion will occasionally deal bonus magic damage, heal you, and permanently increase your health.) as your keystone, followed by
Courage of the Colossus (Gains a shield after immobilizing an enemy champions.),
Second Wind (Heals you after taking damage.) and
Overgrowth (Gains bonus scalable max Health.) in the primary tree, as well as
Legend: Alacrity (Gains Attack Speed.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Grasp of Undying
Tank, Heal
Every 3s in combat, your next attack on a champion will be enhanced.
Bonus magic damage: 2%![]()
Heal: 2.5%![]()
Permanently health increase: 10
On Ranged champions, the effects are reduced by 60%.
Courage of the Colossus
Shield
Gains a shield that absorbs up to 25-45 (
) + 1% of max Health
for 3s when immobilizing an enemy champion.
Cooldown: 10s
Second Wind
Heal after taking damage
Gain 5 Health
every 5 seconds.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, regenerate 6 + (2% of your missing health)
over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.
Overgrowth
Bonus HP
When 2 minions or 1 monsters are killed nearby, permanently gains 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely. Gains a bonus 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Legend: Alacrity
Bonus Attack Speed
Gains 3% Attack Speed. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 20% Attack Speed.
Courage of the Colossus
Shield
Gains a shield that absorbs up to 25-45 (
) + 1% of max Health
for 3s when immobilizing an enemy champion.
Cooldown: 10s
Nullifying Orb
Shield when low health
If you would take damage from a champion that causes you to fall below 35% of your maximum health, grants a shield that absorbs up to 60-190 (
) damage for 4s.
Cooldown: 60s
Nullifying Orb — The rune activates when you would take damage from a champion that causes you to fall below 35% of your maximum health, granting a shield that absorbs damage for a few seconds. This makes the rune perfect for champions who often find themselves in dangerous situations and could be attacked in critical moments. It is ideal for tanks or fighters who need to survive in tough fights, providing protection from sudden damage when at low health.
Second Wind
Heal after taking damage
Gain 5 Health
every 5 seconds.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, regenerate 6 + (2% of your missing health)
over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.
Bone Plating
Block Combo-damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 (
) less damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Bone Plating — The rune reduces damage from enemy attacks and abilities when you take damage from an enemy champion. It lowers damage from the next few attacks or abilities for a short period, making it useful for most champions, including tanks, fighters, and even some mages. The rune helps improve survivability by mitigating damage in critical moments of the fight, making it suitable for heroes who find themselves in the heart of battles.
Overgrowth
Bonus HP
When 2 minions or 1 monsters are killed nearby, permanently gains 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely. Gains a bonus 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Perseverance
Armor and Magic Resistance, Tenacity
Gain 10% Tenacity. When immobilized, gain 16-30 Armor and Magic Resistance (
) for 1.5 seconds. Refresh duration time when immobilized multiple times.
Perseverance — The rune increases your tenacity by 10%. When immobilized, it grants you bonus armor and magic resistance for a short period. The effect refreshes if you are immobilized multiple times, making the rune especially useful for champions who often find themselves under crowd control. It is ideal for tanks and fighters, enhancing their survivability in fights when they are subjected to multiple crowd control effects.
Legend: Alacrity
Bonus Attack Speed
Gains 3% Attack Speed. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 20% Attack Speed.
Giant Slayer
Takedown high health champions
Deal bonus damage based on the enemy champion’s bonus health, up to 16% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1600 bonus health.
Giant Slayer — The rune deals bonus damage based on the enemy champion's bonus health, up to 16% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1600 or more bonus health. It is perfect for champions who face enemies with high amounts of health, such as tanks. The rune helps effectively break through high health opponents, making it an excellent choice for damage-focused champions.
Legend: Alacrity
Bonus Attack Speed
Gains 3% Attack Speed. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 20% Attack Speed.
Legend: Tenacity
Tenacity, Slow Resist
Gains 3% Tenacity and 3% Slow Resist. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 15% Tenacity and 20% Slow Resist.
Legend: Tenacity — The rune increases your tenacity by 3% and slow resistance by 3%. By taking down monsters, enemy champions, or minions, you gain up to an additional 15% tenacity and 20% slow resistance. This rune is perfect for champions who often face crowd control in fights, such as fighters or tanks. It helps reduce the duration of crowd control effects, enhancing survivability in team fights.
(Q) STEEL TEMPEST
4s
Thrusts forward, dealing 87 physical damage (25/55/85/115 + 105%
(Crit damage with
Infinity Edge: + 205%
)).
Grants a stack of Gathering Storm if the thrust damages an enemy. At 2 stacks, Steel Tempest launches a whirlwind that knocks enemies Airborne.
If tapped during Sweeping Blade's dash, Steel Tempest will strike as a circle.
Steel Tempest is treated as an attack: it can Critically Strike for 75% bonus damage and applies on-hit effects on the first unit hit. Cooldown and cast time are reduced by Attack Speed.
(W) WIND WALL
18s
Creates a 300/400/500/600 unit wall that blocks all enemy projectiles for 4 seconds.
(E) SWEEPING BLADE
0.4/0.3/0.2/0.1s
Dashes through target enemy, dealing 70 magic damage (70/80/90/100 + 20% bonus
+ 60%
). Each cast increases the next dash's base damage by 25%, up to +50%.
Cannot be re-cast on the same enemy for 7/6/5/4 seconds.
If Steel Tempest is tapped during this dash, it will strike as a circle.
(R) LAST BREATH
50/40/30s
Blinks to an Airborne enemy champion, dealing 250 physical damage (250/400/550 + 160% bonus
) and holding all Airborne enemies in the area in the air for an additional 1.25s. Grants maximum Flow but resets all stacks of Gathering Storm.
For the next 15s, Critical Strikes gain 50% Armor Penetration.
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Solo Baron YASUO. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
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We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Solo Baron YASUO in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage
+150 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+35 Armor
+45 Move Speed.
Block: Reduces physical damage taken from champions by 3-10% (
).
1350
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide solid protection against physical damage, boosting your durability and movement speed. The “Block” passive further reduces incoming basic attacks and physical damage from enemy champions. — The perfect pick for tanks, bruisers, and supports who need to soak up auto‑attacks while staying mobile in fights.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death
+40 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown)
3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Randuin's Omen
Counters Critical Strike Damage
+400 Max Health
+75 Armor
Resilience: Critically Struck deal 20% less damage to you.
Countercurrent: Gain 1 stacks of Countercurrent when Critically Struck by physical damage. Each stuck grants 5% Movement Speed and 5% slow resist. Max 4 stacks.
2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+200 Max Health
+75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor
+ 2% bonus Health
magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Iceborn Gauntlet
Attacks create a slowing field
+250 Max Health
+50 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+30 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to (100% base AD
+ 25% Bonus Armor
) in an area. It also creates an icy field for 2 seconds that slows enemies inside by 30%. Armor increases the size of the icy field. (1.5s Cooldown)
Damage is reduced vs structures.
3100
Iceborn Gauntlet TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, armor, mana, and ability haste, making you much tankier. After casting an ability, your next attack in an area deals bonus physical damage and creates an icy field that slows enemies inside by 30%. The field’s size scales with your armor. This makes the item a great choice for champions who want to combine high survivability with crowd control and extra AOE damage.
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed
+80 Armor
+200 Max Mana
+25 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks.
2700
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown)
1000
Stasis Enchant TIPS: This Enchant renders you invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 s, but prevents movement, attacks, and ability or item use. Perfect for surviving critical moments against assassins and high burst damage.
WAY OF THE WANDERER
STEEL TEMPEST
WIND WALL
SWEEPING BLADE
LAST BREATH

Resolve: Moving builds Flow, which is tracked on Yasuo's resource bar. At max Flow, damage from a champion or monster grants a shield that absorbs 115-500 damage (
) and lasts 1 seconds.
Intent: Yasuo's Critical Strike Chance
is doubled.
Yasuo converts Critical Rate above 100% into Attack Damage at a rate of 0.6 Attack Damage per 1% Critical Rate.
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4s
Thrusts forward, dealing 87 physical damage (25/55/85/115 + 105%
(Crit damage with
Infinity Edge: + 205%
)).
Grants a stack of Gathering Storm if the thrust damages an enemy. At 2 stacks, Steel Tempest launches a whirlwind that knocks enemies Airborne.
If tapped during Sweeping Blade's dash, Steel Tempest will strike as a circle.
Steel Tempest is treated as an attack: it can Critically Strike for 75% bonus damage and applies on-hit effects on the first unit hit. Cooldown and cast time are reduced by Attack Speed.
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18s
Creates a 300/400/500/600 unit wall that blocks all enemy projectiles for 4 seconds.
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0.4/0.3/0.2/0.1s
Dashes through target enemy, dealing 70 magic damage (70/80/90/100 + 20% bonus
+ 60%
). Each cast increases the next dash's base damage by 25%, up to +50%.
Cannot be re-cast on the same enemy for 7/6/5/4 seconds.
If Steel Tempest is tapped during this dash, it will strike as a circle.
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50/40/30s
Blinks to an Airborne enemy champion, dealing 250 physical damage (250/400/550 + 160% bonus
) and holding all Airborne enemies in the area in the air for an additional 1.25s. Grants maximum Flow but resets all stacks of Gathering Storm.
For the next 15s, Critical Strikes gain 50% Armor Penetration.
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Use this combo to unexpectedly switch target at the last second.
This combo works with both Yasuo's normal (Q) STEEL TEMPEST and empowered (Q3). Use (E) SWEEPING BLADE - (Q) combo on a minion/champion that is close to the target. Quickly FLASH towards the enemy while dashing to deal damage and knock them up if you have (Q3).