Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
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 feature several vital Jarvan IV against Yasuo matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Jarvan IV may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yasuo. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Jarvan IV typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Yasuo. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jarvan IV usually loses when trying to fight Yasuo, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Jarvan IV makes a poor counter to Yasuo.
While Jarvan IV does have a lower win rate than Yasuo, when facing one another, Jarvan IV also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Jarvan IV into Yasuo.
Furthermore, Jarvan IV has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This often 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Jarvan IV vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Jarvan IV is a trash counter for Yasuo. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Jarvan IV against Yasuo.
If you would like to truly master Jarvan IV to counter Yasuo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jarvan IV on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Yasuo. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Jarvan IV versus Yasuo build consist of Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Jarvan IV used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Yasuo than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Jarvan IV boasted an average win rate of 46.9% when playing against Yasuo with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Yasuo as Jarvan IV, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Jarvan IV vs Yasuo counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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