Delaying the activation of Undying Rage is a very effective way to make an enemy champion over-commit to trying to kill you.
If the enemy is stacking Armor, try building items like Last Whisper or Youmuu's Ghostblade.
Bloodlust is an excellent way to heal Tryndamere. Try not to let it fade off before you activate it.
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 feature several significant Tryndamere versus Yasuo matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Tryndamere’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yasuo’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tryndamere may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yasuo..
Tryndamere normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Yasuo. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tryndamere usually fairs equally well when playing against Yasuo, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Tryndamere makes an ok counter to Yasuo.
While Tryndamere does have a lower winrate compared to Yasuo, when on opposite teams, Tryndamere also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tryndamere into Yasuo.
Furthermore, Tryndamere has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Tryndamere vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Tryndamere is a somewhat poor counter to Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tryndamere against Yasuo.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tryndamere in order to counter Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tryndamere often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Yasuo. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Tryndamere versus Yasuo build consist of Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Tryndamere used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Yasuo than with many other common builds. In fact, Tryndamere boasted an average win rate of 49.6% battling Yasuo with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Yasuo as Tryndamere, Tryndamere players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Tryndamere vs Yasuo counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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