Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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 on this page feature some significant Taliyah vs. Yasuo matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yasuo’s ratio of NaN, showing that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Yasuo. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Taliyah usually has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Yasuo. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually wins when playing against Yasuo, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Taliyah makes a good counter for Yasuo.
While Taliyah does have a higher winrate compared to Yasuo, when facing one another, Taliyah also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Taliyah into Yasuo.
Furthermore, Taliyah also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yasuo. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Yasuo matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Taliyah is a decent counter for Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Taliyah against Yasuo.
If you would like to truly master Taliyah to counter Yasuo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Yasuo. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Taliyah versus Yasuo build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting Yasuo than with most other typical builds. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 51.7% battling Yasuo with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Yasuo as Taliyah, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Taliyah vs Yasuo face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Yasuo as Taliyah are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.