Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some vital Yasuo versus Anivia matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Anivia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Anivia. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in deaths.
Yasuo often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Anivia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when facing off against Anivia, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Yasuo makes a bad counter to Anivia.
While Yasuo does have a lower win rate than Anivia, when facing one another, Yasuo also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Yasuo into Aniviaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yasuo has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Yasuo is a bad counter to Anivia. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yasuo against Anivia.
If you would like to truly master Yasuo in order to counter Anivia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Anivia. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Yasuo versus Anivia build include Infinity Edge, Blade of The Ruined King, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Anivia than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when playing against Anivia with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Anivia as Yasuo, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Yasuo vs Anivia counters, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Anivia as Yasuo are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.