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.
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
The stats provided here clarify some critical Yasuo against Hwei counter statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Hwei’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Hwei..
Yasuo normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Hwei. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yasuo usually wins when trying to fight Hwei, with a 54.5% win rate. Therefore, Yasuo makes a great counter for Hwei.
While Yasuo does have a much higher win rate compared to Hwei, when facing one another, Yasuo also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Yasuo into Hweias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yasuo also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hwei. 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 Yasuo vs Hwei matchups, Yasuo is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Yasuo is a great counter to Hwei. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Yasuo against Hwei.
If you would like to truly master Yasuo to counter Hwei during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Hwei. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Yasuo versus Hwei build include Infinity Edge, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Hwei than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 54.5% when countering Hwei with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Hwei as Yasuo, Yasuo players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Unflinching, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Yasuo vs Hwei matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Hwei as Yasuo are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.