Yasuo vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Yasuo
based on 5,101 Yasuo vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Kindred
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.
Advice to Win Against Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Yasuo vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Yasuo in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several significant Yasuo versus Kindred counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kindred’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kindred..
Yasuo often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Kindred. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yasuo and Kindred
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Kindred?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yasuo usually wins when playing against Kindred, with a 54.7% win rate. Thus, Yasuo makes a great counter for Kindred.
While Yasuo does have a much higher win rate than Kindred, when on opposite teams, Yasuo also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Yasuo into Kindredas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Yasuo also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kindred. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Kindred matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Yasuo is a great counter for Kindred. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Yasuo against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo in order to counter Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo usually racks up much more CS as Kindred. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Yasuo versus Kindred build include Infinity Edge, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Kindred than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 54.7% when playing against Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Kindred as Yasuo, Yasuo players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Yasuo vs Kindred counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kindred as Yasuo are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.