You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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 stat comparisons shown here show some strategic Neeko vs. Yasuo counter stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Neeko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yasuo’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Neeko may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Yasuo..
Neeko normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Yasuo. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Neeko usually loses when facing off against Yasuo, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Neeko makes a poor counter to Yasuo.
While Neeko does have a lower win rate than Yasuo, when they face off with one another, Neeko also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Neeko into Yasuo.
Furthermore, Neeko also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Neeko 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 allies during teamfights.
Neeko is a trash counter for Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Neeko against Yasuo.
To learn all of the intricacies of Neeko in order 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Neeko usually accumulates less CS relative to Yasuo. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Neeko versus Yasuo build include Cryptbloom, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Neeko combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Yasuo than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Neeko had an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Yasuo with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Yasuo as Neeko, Neeko players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Neeko vs Yasuo counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Yasuo as Neeko are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.