If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
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 show several vital Evelynn versus Yasuo matchup stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yasuo’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Yasuo..
Evelynn normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Yasuo. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Evelynn usually loses when trying to fight Yasuo, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Evelynn makes a bad counter for Yasuo.
While Evelynn does have a lower winrate than Yasuo, when facing one another, Evelynn also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Evelynn into Yasuoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Evelynn also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yasuo. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Evelynn is a somewhat poor counter to Yasuo. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Evelynn against Yasuo.
If you would like to truly master Evelynn in order to counter Yasuo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn usually accumulates a lot less CS as Yasuo. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Evelynn versus Yasuo build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Void Staff. When Evelynn combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Yasuo than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Evelynn had an average win rate of 48.8% when countering Yasuo with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Yasuo as Evelynn, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Evelynn vs Yasuo counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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