Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Ahri versus Yasuo counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the two. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yasuo’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Yasuo..
Ahri typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Yasuo. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when facing off against Yasuo, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes a poor counter for Yasuo.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Yasuo, when facing one another, Ahri also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Ahri into Yasuo.
Moreover, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a bad counter to Yasuo. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Yasuo.
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Yasuo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Yasuo. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Ahri versus Yasuo build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Yasuo than with most other common builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 47.2% battling Yasuo with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Yasuo as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Ahri vs Yasuo counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
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