Yasuo

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Yasuo is a champion in League of Legends (LoL).

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Base statistics Edit 

HP

590 – 2460

Resource

N/A

HP5

6.5 – 21.8

Secondary Bar

Flow (100)

AR

32 – 110.2

AD

60 – 111

MR

32 – 66.85

Crit. DMG

175%

MS

345

Attack range

175

Attack speed

Base AS

0.697

Windup%

22%

AS ratio

0.67

Bonus AS

0 – 59.5%

Unit radius

Gameplay radius

65

Select. radius

120

Pathing radius

32

Select. height

180

Acq. radius

400

Special statistics

• Swiftplay
• ARAM
• Arena
• Nexus Blitz
• One For All
• Ultra Rapid Fire
• Ultimate Spellbook

Damage Dealt

+0%

Damage Received

+0%

Total Attack Speed

+2.5%

Damage Dealt

+0%

Damage Received

+0%

Damage Dealt

+0%

Damage Received

+0%

Damage Dealt

+0%

Damage Received

-10%

Damage Dealt

+0%

Damage Received

+0%

Yasuo

the Unforgiven

Role(s): Top,  Middle,  Bottom

Store price: 675 | 585

Style:

Difficulty:

Release date

2013-12-13

Last changed

V25.11

Class

Skirmisher

Legacy class

Fighter, Assassin

Resource

Flow

Range type

Melee

Adaptive type

 Physical

Abilities

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Way of the Wanderer

Innate - Intent: Yasuo gains increased  critical strike chance. He also gains  attack damage from excess  critical strike chance. Innate - Resolve: Yasuo's movement generates the Flow resource. He gains a brief shield when taking damage from a champion or monster at maximum Flow, consuming all of it.

Innate - Intent: Yasuo's  total critical strike chance is doubled from all other sources. Additionally,「 every 1% critical strike chance in excess of 100% is converted into  0.5 bonus attack damage. 」「 every 50% critical strike chance in excess of 100% is converted into  25 bonus attack damage. 」

Innate - Resolve: Yasuo generates a stack of Flow for every 59 / 52.5 / 46 (based on level) units he travels by any means. At「 100 stacks 」「 5900 / 5250 / 4600 (based on level) units traveled 」and upon taking damage from an enemy champion or monster, Yasuo consumes all Flow to grant himself a shield for 125 – 600 (based on level) that lasts up to 1 second.

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Passive

• Yasuo gains the shield before the damage instance; the shield will mitigate the damage that triggered it.
• Yasuo is able to reach 100% critical strike chance with Way of the Wanderer's multiplier after obtaining a total of  50% critical strike chance.

Tips & Tricks

• Taking into account Yasuo's 345 base movement speed and assuming he's constantly moving, it will take 17.1 / 15.22 / 13.33 (based on level) seconds to generate 100 Flow stacks.
  • Taking into account the 45 bonus movement speed that most Tier 2 boots grant (resulting in 390 total movement speed), it will take 15.13 / 13.46 / 11.79 (based on level) seconds to generate 100 Flow stacks.

Map-Specific Differences

Arena differences ^edit

• Base shield changed to 130% value.

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Steel Tempest

CAST TIME:

0.35 – 0.175 (based on bonus attack speed) / 0.35 – 0.28 (based on bonus attack speed)

STATIC COOLDOWN:

4 – 1.33 (based on bonus attack speed)

RANGE:

450 / 1150

EFFECT RADIUS:

215

WIDTH:

80 / 180

SPEED:

1200

Active: Yasuo thrusts his sword in a line in the target direction that deals physical damage to enemies hit and applies on-hit and on-attack effects to the first enemy hit. This can critically strike. If this hits an enemy, Yasuo generates a stack of Gathering Storm for a few seconds. At 2 stacks, the next Steel Tempest consumes them all to become empowered with a new effect. If Steel Tempest is cast during Sweeping Blade, it instead affects enemies around Yasuo. Gathering Storm Bonus: Yasuo unleashes a whirlwind in the target direction that deals physical damage and briefly knocks up enemies hit.

Active: Yasuo thrusts his sword in a line in the target direction that deals physical damage to enemies hit, applies on-hit effects to the first enemy hit, and triggers on-attack effects once. Steel Tempest's damage based on its AD ratio can critically strike for (175% +  40%) damage.

Physical Damage:

20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ 105% AD)

Steel Wind Rising: If this hits at least one enemy, Yasuo generates a stack of Gathering Storm for 6 seconds, stacking up to 2 times and refreshing on subsequent hits. At 2 stacks, the next Steel Tempest consumes them all to become empowered with a new effect.

Gathering Storm Bonus: Yasuo unleashes a whirlwind in the target direction that deals the same damage to enemies hit and knocks them up for 0.75 seconds, or 0.9 seconds in combination with Sweeping Blade.

Steel Tempest's thrust will fail to hit targets after the cast time if Yasuo was affected by disarming crowd control during it, but the  cooldown of the ability is reset to 0.1 seconds.

If Steel Tempest is cast during Sweeping Blade, it will instead affect enemies around Yasuo at the end of the dash, or doing so immediately at his landing location after blinking while ending the dash prematurely. Steel Tempest's cast time is not incurred in this case.

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Targeting input

Direction / Auto

Damage classification

Type

See Notes

Sub-type

Physical

Minion Aggro

See Notes

Counters

Spell shield

Blocked

Parries

See Notes

Projectile

See Notes

• Casting Sweeping Blade when Steel Tempest's remaining cooldown is less than 0.5 seconds resets this remaining cooldown to allow casting it in combination, but adds the refunded time to Steel Tempest's cooldown.
• If Yasuo becomes unable to cast abilities during the dash after buffering, Steel Tempest will not cast, but will still go on cooldown.^(note)
• The whirlwind from consuming stacks of Gathering Storm can strike targets whose center is behind Yasuo, unlike most missiles.
• The whirlwind is not released when cast during Sweeping Blade, but instead knocks up all enemies hit around Yasuo at the end of the dash.
• Steel Tempest applies basic damage to the first (closest) enemy hit and area damage to secondary enemies:
  • Steel Tempest will apply on-hit effects to the first target hit, but will not do so to the secondary ones.
  • Steel Tempest will not apply spell effects to the first target hit, but will do so to the secondary ones.
  •  Spell vamp will only grant healing from the damage dealt to secondary targets, and healing is reduced to 33% effectiveness, accordingly.
  •  Life steal will heal based on the damage dealt to the first target hit.
• The whirlwind is a missile and can therefore be intercepted.
• Steel Tempest will only draw minion aggro if the first target is a champion.
• This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
• Each parry has different interactions with this ability, whether it's the first target of Steel Tempest or the secondary one. In either case Yasuo still gains a stack of Gathering Storm and his whirlwind knock-up cannot be negated by parries:
  • Dodge: both first target and secondary target do not take damage.
  • Block: first target does not take damage, secondary target does take damage.
  • Blind: both first target and secondary target do take damage.
• Steel Tempest rolls its critical strikes individually against each enemy hit.
• Casting Last Breath during Steel Tempest will buffer it to cast after the cast time has completed.
  • However, if Last Breath is used on a target affected by an airborne source that is not Yasuo, it is cast immediately due to Steel Tempest's cast time ending prematurely. Steel Tempest will still cast in this case.
• Spell shield does not prevent a stack of Gathering Storm from being gained.
• While at two stacks, a range indicator will be shown for the effective range of the whirlwind.

Tips & Tricks

• Casting Last Breath while buffering Steel Tempest during Sweeping Blade will also trigger the area of effect around Yasuo after the blink, thus avoiding the Gathering Storm stack reset and generating a stack of Gathering Storm if the area of effect hits an enemy around where Yasuo blinked to.

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Wind Wall

COOLDOWN:

25 / 23 / 21 / 19 / 17

CAST TIME:

0.013

RANGE:

0 - 350 / 450

EFFECT RADIUS:

300

Active: Yasuo raises a wind wall that drifts in the target direction for a few seconds, blocking all enemy projectiles that hit it.

Active: Yasuo raises a wall of wind that travels in the target direction over 0.25 seconds. It then drifts another 50 units over 3.75 seconds, blocking all hostile non- turret projectiles that hit it and granting sight of its surroundings.

Wall Width:

320 / 390 / 460 / 530 / 600

▶️ "Face the wind!"

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• Wind Wall grants sight in a small static area in front of the cast location.
• Wind Wall starts blocking projectiles on-cast (despite not being fully formed).
• Wind Wall travels via a missile, and thus stops upon colliding with an enemy Wind Wall.

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Sweeping Blade

COOLDOWN:

0.5 / 0.4 / 0.3 / 0.2 / 0.1

TARGET IMMUNITY:

10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6

TARGET RANGE:

475

RANGE:

475 / 625

SPEED:

750 + 60% movement speed

Active: Yasuo dashes in the target enemy's direction, dealing magic damage, briefly becoming ghosted, and generating a stack of Ride the Wind for a few seconds, stacking up to a cap. Sweeping Blade cannot be cast on the same target for a period. Ride the Wind: Each stack increases Sweeping Blade's damage.

Active: Yasuo dashes a fixed distance in the direction of the target enemy and becomes ghosted for 2 seconds, refreshing on subsequent casts. Upon impact, he deals magic damage to the target and generates a stack of Ride the Wind for 5 seconds, which refreshes on subsequent hits and stacks up to 4 times.

Magic Damage:

70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 (+ 20% bonus AD) (+ 60% AP)

Ride the Wind: Sweeping Blade's damage is increased by 25% per stack, up to 100% at maximum stacks.

Bonus Damage per Stack:►

17.5 / 21.25 / 25 / 28.75 / 32.5 (+ 5% bonus AD) (+ 15% AP)

◄Maximum Bonus Damage:►

70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 (+ 20% bonus AD) (+ 60% AP)

◄Total Combined Damage:

140 / 170 / 200 / 230 / 260 (+ 40% bonus AD) (+ 120% AP)

Sweeping Blade can be cast on the same target only once every few seconds.

Yasuo will be knocked down by any immobilizing or polymorphing crowd control during the dash.

Last Breath can be cast during the dash.

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Targeting input

Unit

Target out-of-range override

Walk in range of the target unit to cast

Insufficient dash range

Dash will gain bonus range through terrain

Damage classification

Type

Spell damage

Sub-type

Magic

Minion Aggro

Drawn

Counters

Spell shield

Blocked

Grounded

Disabled

Knockdown

Interrupted

• If Steel Tempest has been buffered, Wind Wall may also be cast during the dash.^(note)
• The on-target cooldown will be applied upon starting the dash.
• Sweeping Blade's dash speed is affected by  movement speed.
• Sweeping Blade will generate 7.5 Flow stacks per cast that travels the maximum distance.
• Yasuo can use Sweeping Blade's fixed dash distance to cross walls both before and after hitting his target (provided his proximity to the wall and/or target allows it).
• After Sweeping Blade, Yasuo becomes ghosted for a moment to prevent situations where he would face extreme cases of body block.
• Sleep does not count for knocking the dash down.^(bug)

Map-Specific Differences

Arena differences ^edit

• On-target cooldown changed to 50% value.
• Base damage changed to 75 / 90 / 105 / 120 / 135}.

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Last Breath

COOLDOWN:

70 / 50 / 30

CAST TIME:

none

TARGET RANGE:

1400

EFFECT RADIUS:

400

Active: Yasuo blinks to the target airborne enemy champion and instantly generates max Flow. He then briefly knocks up, reveals, and deals physical damage to all nearby airborne enemies. He becomes empowered for some time, causing his critical strikes to gain  bonus-armor penetration.  Bonus-armor penetration affects  bonus armor only.

Active: Yasuo blinks to the opposite side of a visible airborne enemy champion nearest to the cursor, instantly generating maximum Flow while resetting Gathering Storm stacks.

Upon arrival, he knocks up all nearby airborne enemy champions for 1 second, revealing them, becoming unable to act himself, and slashing them with his sword over the duration to deal physical damage thereafter. Surrounding enemy champions that become airborne during this time will also be affected by Last Breath through the remaining duration.

Physical Damage:

200 / 350 / 500 (+ 150% bonus AD)

For the next 15 seconds, the damage dealt by Yasuo's critical strikes ignores  60% of the target's bonus armor.

A nearby airborne enemy champion is required to cast this ability. If Yasuo would blink inside the  attack range of an enemy turret (excluding the Nexus Obelisk), Last Breath will instead attempt to position him outside of it.

▶️ "Sorye ge ton!"

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Unit / Proximity

Target out-of-range override

The ability will not cast/select a target

Damage classification

Type

Spell damage

Sub-type

Physical

Minion Aggro

Not Drawn

Counters

Spell shield

See Notes

Grounded

Disabled

• Last Breath can be cast on targets suspended in mid-air by Nami's Aqua Prison's stun.
  • The wiki has adopted the term suspension for this unique property due to a statement by Yasuo's designer.
• The percentage bonus armor penetration stacks multiplicatively with other sources of percentage armor penetration.
• Last Breath requires the target to be affected by airborne from an enemy source, and simultaneously that the target is not considered cc-immune, displacement immune, or untargetable during it.
  • Last Breath cannot be cast if there are no nearby enemy champions that meet the conditions.
    • Attempting to cast the ability on an enemy champion that is not airborne will indicate that they "Must Be Airborne!".
    • Spell shield will not prevent Last Breath from being cast and the target will be knocked up and dealt the damage.
      • The spell shield is still consumed in this case.^(note)
  • Self-applied or allied-applied displacements do not allow Last Breath to target the champion. Those applied by the neutral team (e.g. Dragon's initial knock back) can be targeted.
  • An indicator will be placed towards enemy champions that meet the cast conditions within range of Last Breath to signify the ability can be cast.
  • The Hextech Ultimatum will prevent Yasuo from casting Last Breath on an airborne enemy champion far outside its borders.
    • Yasuo can only do so if the airborne enemy champion is positioned slightly outside of the borders.
• Upon Last Breath's cast, the targets' facing directions snap to Yasuo. Afterwards, their facing directions shift in all other directions every 0.25 seconds over the duration of the airborne.
  • The last shift snaps them to the facing direction of the second one.
  • On the Nightbringer Yasuo skin, these shifts in facing direction do not occur, but the targets' facing directions will still snap to Yasuo upon Last Breath's cast.
• Yasuo does not need sight of enemy champions near his target to affect them with the ability.
• Last Breath applies its damage and removes its forced movement on the target when it ends, including if it is removed early by being cleansed.
  • This is in contrast to most other effects with airborne, which have their forced movement linger if the disabling debuff is removed and have to be overridden by another movement spell (such as Lucian's Relentless Pursuit or Flash).
  • It behaves similar to Nami's Aqua Prison in this but is not considered suspension.
• Terrain displacing abilities (e.g. Weaver's Wall, Pillar of Ice, Volcanic Rupture) that affect enemy champions are considered airborne, and will therefore interact with Last Breath.
• While blinking, Yasuo creates an untargetable clone of himself that cues a dashing animation (similar to Sweeping Blade's) towards the target. This unit's rules do not follow those of a clone's. As such, it is more alike a champion, unless special cased.
• While performing Last Breath, Yasuo is locked out of performing actions.
  • The lock out will end prematurely if all targets:
    • Cleanse the knock up.
    • Move far away from Yasuo.
    • Leave Yasuo's sight (e.g. by nearsight).
    • Become untargetable.
    • Die.
    • Enter the Realm of Death.
• The following table refers for interactions while Yasuo is locked out:

Attacking		Disabled
Abilities		Disabled
Movement		Disabled
Items	Usable	N/A
	Disabled	All items are disabled
	Interrupted by	N/A
Consumables		Disabled
Spells	Usable	Barrier Clarity Cleanse Exhaust Ghost Heal Ignite Smite
	Disabled	Flash Teleport Recall Hexflash
	Interrupted by	N/A
Interrupted by		N/A

Champion skins

This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Yasuo (Collection).

Original

13.12.2013

An Ionian of deep resolve, Yasuo is an agile swordsman who wields the air itself against his enemies. As a proud young man, he was falsely accused of murdering his master—unable to prove his innocence, he was forced to slay his own brother in self defense. Even after his master’s true killer was revealed, Yasuo still could not forgive himself for all he had done, and now wanders his homeland with only the wind to guide his blade.

Liam O'Brien

Pan Chengwei

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High Noon

975

13.12.2013

The mysterious and reluctant sheriff of a two-street town, Yasuo is in self-imposed exile after being accused of murder in the eastern territories. Even so, he has driven off entire bandit gangs as well as many of the desert's deadliest threats, saving hundreds of lives along the way.

Liam O'Brien

Michal Ivan, Puppetworks Animation Studio

High Noon

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Amethyst

Emerald

Jasper

Obsidian

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PROJECT

1350

31.08.2014

Yasuo returned from advanced combat only to be accused of a crime he did not commit. Knowing that PROJECT's corporate leadership was somehow involved, Yasuo fights with the G/NETIC rebels, cutting away the lies of technology with his plasma coated blade.

Liam O'Brien

Charles 'Yideth' Liu

PROJECT

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Blood Moon

975

25.02.2016

Ceremonial executioner of the Blood Moon cult, Yasuo's blade is inhabited by an insidious, bloodthirsty demon whose hunger for death can never be satisfied. This suits Yasuo well, for he is possessed of an inner darkness even deeper than the creature whispering at his side.

Liam O'Brien

Kelly Aleshire

Blood Moon

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Nightbringer

1820

14.06.2017

Born from festering echoes at the dawn of creation, Yasuo is the hellish embodiment of chaos in the cosmos. Fated to clash against the Dawnbringer for all time, he awaits a day when his darkness will finally cleave away her light.

Liam O'Brien

Alex 'alexplank' Flores

Nightbringer and Dawnbringer

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Pariah

Odyssey

1350

12.09.2018

Yasuo never wanted to be a space pirate… until he was framed for his brother's murder, and had to flee his life of relative luxury. Now on the run from a dozen different military and paramilitary factions, he's putting together an eccentric crew to make a new life among the stars.

Liam O'Brien

Bo 'chenbowow' Chen

Odyssey

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Obsidian

Pearl

Rose Quartz

Ruby

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Tanzanite

Battle Boss

1350

28.06.2019

One-time protagonist of the 1979 cult classic “Hasagi,” Yasuo was infected with Veigar's malignant code after the Battle Boss takeover of Arcadia. He maintains his impossibly complex gameplay patterns and high-damage attacks, but now fights for the forces of evil.

Liam O'Brien

Choe HeonHwa

Arcade: Battle Bosses

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Amethyst

Aquamarine

Catseye

K.O.

Meteorite

Obsidian

Rose Quartz

Ruby

True Damage

1350

10.11.2019

As enigmatic as he is skilled, Yasuo is the veteran producer all others turn to for inspiration. His beats transcend genre, painting whole universes with wild textures of sound. Notoriously selective about his collaborations, Yasuo sees True Damage as his platform to revolutionize how society experiences music.

Liam O'Brien

Kelly Aleshire

True Damage

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Amethyst

Aquamarine

Catseye

Freestyle

Obsidian

Pearl

Ruby

Prestige True Damage

Special

25.09.2020

After the global success of “GIANTS,” reclusive producer-extraordinaire Yasuo was inundated with requests. From record deals to clothing sponsorships, he turned down one after another, preferring to stay out of the limelight to focus on the simple joys of making beats. However, A Bathing Ape somehow managed to secure his attention. Now, donning golden threads to match his musical brilliance, Yasuo holds the world's ears at attention—with fans and critics alike waiting to hear his next revolutionary track.

Liam O'Brien

Esben Lash Rasmussen

True Damage

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Spirit Blossom

1350

22.07.2020

Pride once set the First Lands aflame, as recounted in the Tale of the Warring Brothers. The Younger was a roguish yet respected lord, until he was accused of crimes against his people and took up arms to defend his reputation. Both brothers fell in their final clash—a fatal lesson in hubris.

Liam O'Brien

Jennifer Wuestling

Spirit Blossom

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Catseye

Emerald

Night Blossom

Obsidian

Pearl

Rose Quartz

Ruby

Sapphire

Sea Dog

1350

05.05.2022

Empowered by the Buhru during his fight against Viego of Camavor, Yasuo made an unlikely champion for the children of Nagakabouros—his obsession with past events flew in the face of everything they believed in. Yet even the mangiest sea dog has his day, and Yasuo stood against the forces of darkness, emerging triumphant.

Liam O'Brien

Sean 'Raiko' Tay, West Studio

Ruined

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Amethyst

Aquamarine

Catseye

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Obsidian

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Rose Quartz

Ruby

Truth Dragon

1820

21.10.2021

Alone against an army, Yasuo chose to stand and fight. He blocked a narrow pass between two mountains, allowing innocents to escape the bloodshed. Wielding the truth of steel as a dance, he felled countless foes—but even he could not hold out forever. The Dragon of Truth, moved by his swordsmanship, came down from its peak to bless him...

Liam O'Brien

Pan Chengwei

Dragonmancers

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Dream Dragon

1820

21.10.2021

The song of steel grew silent, and Yasuo was the last living soul on the battlefield—though he imagined he could hear the thankful murmurs of the villagers he'd protected. Wounded and dying, Yasuo produced his flute to play a last haunting elegy. The Dragon of Dreams descended from its mountaintop, moved by Yasuo's song, and offered him its power...

Liam O'Brien

Pan Chengwei

Dragonmancers

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Inkshadow

1350

03.05.2023

Displaced from his home alongside Master Yi, Yasuo now uses his Inkshadow tattoos to ride the wind between Rabadon City and the outskirts, protecting civilians seeking asylum with help from the mysterious Man of Masks. Though he gave up his freedom in exchange for power, he sees the price as penance for being unable to help those who needed it most.

Liam O'Brien

Nathaniel Himawan, West Studio

Inkshadow

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Catseye

DEFY MSI 2023

Emerald

Inked

Obsidian

Rose Quartz

Ruby

Sapphire

Tanzanite

Turquoise

Prestige Inkshadow

Special

03.05.2023

Sporting an elevated take on traditional Ionian menswear coupled with a fearlessly bare set of stunning blackout tattoos, Yasuo's gala look celebrates elegant rebellion, sartorial subversion, and an uprising of unprecedented design.

Liam O'Brien

Ina Wong, West Studio

Inkshadow

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Foreseen

1350

24.01.2024

Yasuo glimpsed many paths in his dreams. One saw him as an old man, alone, having strayed far from his course. He had given up ambition, family, even love, all to atone for sins he could no longer remember. This vision was not a warning, but a reminder, for Yasuo knew he could always return to his path. He only needed to find it... or let it find him.

Liam O'Brien

Su Fu, Kudos Productions

Otherroads

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Amethyst

Catseye

Emerald

Obsidian

Pearl

Rose Quartz

Ruby

Sapphire

Battle Wolf

1350

31.07.2024

The first captain of the Wolf Squad, Yasuo fought alongside Riven in the early days of the invasion. He disappeared only to reemerge years later a battle-hardened survivalist, still wearing his original suit. He's here to warn Anima Squad that the enemy has evolved—and if they want to survive, they'll need all hands (and paws) on deck.

Liam O'Brien

Lejia Chan, Kudos Productions

Anima Squad

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Amethyst

Catseye

Nightwire

Obsidian

Pearl

Peridot

Rose Quartz

Ruby

Turquoise

Genesis Nightbringer

Special

09.10.2024

Born from festering echoes at the dawn of creation, Yasuo is the hellish embodiment of chaos in the cosmos. Fated to clash against the Dawnbringer for all time, he awaits a day when his darkness will finally cleave away her light.

Liam O'Brien

Huyy Nguyen, West Studio

Nightbringer and Dawnbringer

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Patch history

For the expanded patch notes, see here.

V25.11

• Last Breath
  • Bug Fix: While he has gained the effects of the bonus-armor penetration, no longer incorrectly deals excessive damage to K'Sante who is All Out and has equipped Aftershock.

V25.05

• Steel Tempest
  • Bug Fix: While Gathering Storm stacks and Ride the Wind's stacks are expiring or have expired very close in time to one another, Steel Tempest no longer fails to cast.

V25.04

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Removed: No longer grants Yasuo a critical damage penalty of 10%.
    • This penalty would also apply to Steel Tempest.
• Wind Wall
  • Bug Fix: Renata Glasc's Hostile Takeover no longer sometimes bypasses Wind Wall.

V14.24

• Wind Wall
  • Bug Fix: SFX is no longer audible through the Fog of War.

V14.20

• Steel Tempest
  • Total critical damage penalty changed to -10% from -20%. No longer applies an additional critical damage penalty; only applies Way of the Wanderer's penalty.
    • Critical strike AD ratio increased to 165.375% AD from 147% AD.
• Last Breath
  • Bonus armor penetration increased to 60% from 50%.

V14.15

• Stats
  • Base armor increased to 32 from 30.
• Sweeping Blade
  • Base damage increased to 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 from 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100.
  • Bonus damage per stack increased to 25% at all levels from 15% – 25% (based on level).

V14.11

• Steel Tempest
  • Bug Fix: Using Recall during a Sweeping Blade + Steel Tempest combo no longer incorrectly delays the knock-up until Recall's channel ends or is interrupted.

V14.10

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Critical strike chance multiplier reduced to 2 from 2.5.
  • Bonus attack damage per excess critical strike chance increased to 0.5 from 0.4.

V14.9

• Stats
  • Selection radius increased to 120 units from 75.

V13.15

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Base shield increased to 125 – 600 (based on level) (now uses level growth formula) from 125 – 600 (based on level).

V13.14

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Bug Fix: Rageknife no longer disables the critical strike chance conversion.

V13.10 - May 18th Hotfix

• Stats
  • Health growth increased to 110 from 101.
• Way of the Wanderer
  • Base shield increased to 125 – 600 (based on level) from 100 – 575 (based on level).
• Wind Wall
  • Cooldown reduced to 25 / 23 / 21 / 19 / 17 seconds from 30 / 27 / 24 / 21 / 18.

V13.7

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Base shield increased to 100 – 575 (based on level) from 100 – 475 (based on level).
• Sweeping Blade
  • Number of stacks increased to 4 from 2.
  • Removed: No longer increases base damage by 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25 per stack.
  • New Effect: Now increases total damage by 15% – 25% (based on level) per stack.

V12.10

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 590 from 520.
  • Health growth increased to 101 from 87.
  • Armor growth increased to 4.6 from 3.4.
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
• Way of the Wanderer
  • Base shield reduced to 100 – 475 (based on level) from 115 – 525 (based on level).

V12.7

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 520 from 490.
• Last Breath
  • Cooldown reduced to 70 / 50 / 30 seconds from 80 / 55 / 30.

V12.2

• Steel Tempest
  • AD ratio increased to 105% AD from 100% AD.
  • Total critical damage penalty unchanged (-20%). Critical damage modifier increased to 93.33% from 88.89%.
    • Critical strike AD ratio increased to 147% AD from 140% AD.

V11.22

• Nightbringer Yasuo
  • Bug Fix: Voiceover issues have been fixed.

V11.14

• Sweeping Blade
  • Bug Fix: No longer occasionally fails to plays its proper animation and instead use his moving animation.

V11.10

• Steel Tempest
  • Bug Fix: Navori Quickblades' Deft Strikes now properly trigger on Yasuo's Steel Tempest's spin (if used while casting Sweeping Blade) and Yone's Mortal Steel's third cast (whirlwind).

V11.7

• Stats
  • Attack damage growth increased to 3 from 2.2.

V11.6

• Steel Tempest
  • Undocumented: Critical strike damage formula now accounts for Way of the Wanderer's -10% critical damage penalty, instead of applying a single independent modifier. Actual damage unchanged.
    • New calculation: [175% × (1-0.1) × 0.8889] = 140% AD, for a total critical damage penalty of -20%.
    • Old calculation: [175% × (1-0.2)] = 140% AD, for a critical damage penalty of -20%.

V11.1

• Stats
  • Attack damage growth reduced to 2.2 from 3.2.
• Way of the Wanderer
  • Bonus critical strike chance increased to 150% from 100%.
  • Bonus attack damage per excess critical strike chance reduced to 0.4 bonus attack damage from 0.5.

V10.25

• Stats
  • Attack speed growth increased to 3.5% from 2.5%.

V10.24

• Way of the Wanderer
  • New Effect: Way of the Wanderer's critical strike-related effects now wait to activate until any other effects that care about critical strikes have been taken care of.

V10.23

• Way of the Wanderer
  • New Effect: Now converts every 1% excess critical strike chance into 0.5 bonus AD.
  • Bug Fix: Shield strength fixed back to 115 – 525 (based on level) from 120 – 605 (based on level).

V10.21

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Bug: Shield strength changed to 120 – 605 (based on level) from 115 – 525 (based on level).

V10.18

• General
  • Updated voice over.

V10.16

• General
  • Updated voice over.
• Stats
  • Base magic resistance increased to 32 from 30.
• Last Breath
  • Base damage increased to 200 / 350 / 500 from 200 / 300 / 400.

V10.12

• Stats
  • Base health reduced to 490 from 523.
• Way of the Wanderer
  • Shield increased to 115 – 525 (based on level) from 100 – 510 (based on level).
• Wind Wall
  • Cooldown increased to 30 / 27 / 24 / 21 / 18 seconds from 26 / 24 / 22 / 20 / 18.

V10.4

• Steel Tempest
  • Undocumented: Is no longer special cased to consume a stack of Hail of Blades on-hit (consuming an additional stack in the process).

V10.3

• Steel Tempest
  • Now correctly triggers on-attack effects.

V10.1

• Steel Tempest
  • Bug Fix: Voice over lines restored.
• Sweeping Blade
  • Bug Fix: Voice over lines restored.

V9.24

• Steel Tempest
  • Undocumented: Now consumes a stack of Hail of Blades on-hit.

V9.23

• True Damage Yasuo
  • Loading screen border is now uniquely colored per True Damage skin.

V9.21

• Last Breath
  • Bug Fix: Dashing through the Eye of the Herald with Last Breath no longer has that non-champion entity pick it up.

V9.14

• Wind Wall
  • Undocumented: Projectiles can no longer sometimes go through the wind wall.

V9.9 - April 30th Hotfix

• Steel Tempest
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it would have no cooldown if cast at a far distance during Sweeping Blade.

V9.6

• Steel Tempest
  • New Effect: Secondary targets hit are now accounted for by runes.
  • New Effect: Sweeping Blade cast secondary targets hit are now accounted for by runes.

V9.4

• Stats
  • Base attack damage reduced to 60 from 63.
• Steel Tempest
  • Critical damage penalty changed to -20% from -10%.
    • Critical strike AD ratio reduced to 160% AD from 180% AD.

V9.3

• Nightbringer Yasuo
  • Last Breath
    • Bug Fix: Voiceover has been restored.

V9.2

• Steel Tempest
  • Bug Fix: Restored on-hit VFX for tornado.
  • Bug Fix: Restored missing VFX on Sweeping Blade - Steel Tempest combo cast.
• Last Breath
  • Bug Fix: Restored missing buff particles on his sword after casting Last Breath.
• High Noon Yasuo
  • Bug Fix: Restored missing swipe trails on basic attacks.
  • Steel Tempest
    • Bug Fix: Restored on-hit VFX for tornado.
    • Bug Fix: Restored missing VFX on Sweeping Blade - Steel Tempest combo cast.
• PROJECT: Yasuo
  • Bug Fix: Restored missing swipe trails on basic attacks.
  • Steel Tempest
    • Bug Fix: Restored on-hit VFX for tornado.
    • Bug Fix: Restored missing VFX on Sweeping Blade - Steel Tempest combo cast.
  • Last Breath
    • Bug Fix: Restored missing buff particles on his sword after casting Last Breath.

V9.1

• Steel Tempest
  • New Effect: Ability icon border now shows the remaining time to recast the ability.
• Last Breath
  • New Effect: Can now ping whether the ability is within range or not.

V8.24

• Nightbringer Yasuo and PROJECT: Yasuo
  • Steel Tempest
    • Bug Fix: Audio cues have been restored.

V8.18

• General
  • Undocumented: Major rescript of all abilities.

V8.18#Hotfixes - Unknown Date Hotfix

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Bug Fix: No longer generates Flow at half the intended rate.
• Steel Tempest
  • Undocumented / Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Yasuo could enter a state where every Q cast would be a tornado.

V8.11 - June 1st Hotfix

• Stats
  • Base attack damage increased to 63 from 60.
• Way of the Wanderer
  • Bug Fix: The combination of Brawler's Gloves and Infinity Edge now properly grants 40% critical strike chance.
• Steel Tempest
  • Critical damage penalty changed to -10% from -25%.
    • Critical strike AD ratio increased to 180% AD from 150% AD.

V8.11

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Bug Fix: Now correctly generates a shield in response to damage from Shaco's Hallucinate clone.

V8.8

• Nightbringer Yasuo and PROJECT: Yasuo
  • Steel Tempest
    • Bug Fix: Ground particle no longer clips into the ground on elevation change.

V8.3

• Stats
  • Base health regeneration reduced to 6.5 from 6.512.

V8.2

• Sweeping Blade
  • New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
• Last Breath
  • New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.

V7.24b

• Stats
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 1.25 from 0.5.
• Steel Tempest
  • Base damage increased to 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 from 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100.
• Last Breath
  • Range increased to 1400 from 1200.

V7.23

• High Noon Yasuo and PROJECT: Yasuo
  • Bug Fix: On-hit VFX have been restored.
• Blood Moon Yasuo
  • Bug Fix: Crescent moon VFX no longer disappear when moving the camera away and back.

V7.22

• Stats
  • New: Now has +4% bonus attack speed at level 1.
  • Base attack damage increased to 60 from 55.376.
  • Base armor increased to 30 from 24.712.
  • Base health increased to 523 from 517.76.
  • Health growth increased to 87 from 82.

V7.17

• Last Breath
  • Bug Fix: Can no longer activate Zeke's Convergence by attempting to casting Last Breath on enemy who is not currently knocked up.

V7.16

• Nightbringer Yasuo
  • Bug Fix: No longer faces the wrong direction during his channel animation.

V7.13

• Nightbringer Yasuo
  • Bug Fix: Fixed special borders being cut off at the bottom during loading screen.

V7.12

• High Noon Yasuo
  • Sweeping Blade
    • Bug Fix: Now correctly shouts his VO when casting it.

V7.11

• Steel Tempest
  • Stack duration reduced to 6 seconds from 10.

V7.10

• Wind Wall
  • Bug Fix: Enemies no longer lose spell shields when walking through the very edge of Wind Wall.

V7.9

• Stats
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 0.5 from 0.

V7.8

• High Noon Yasuo
  • Way of the Wanderer
    • Bug Fix: Chromas no longer use the base skin particles.

V7.2

• Sweeping Blade
  • Base damage reduced to 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 from 70 / 90 / 110 / 130 / 150.
  • New Effect: Has a 20% bonus AD ratio.

V6.24

• Last Breath
  • Bug Fix: Targeting enemies displacing themselves/each other with Blast Cone.

V6.22

• PROJECT: Yasuo
  • General
    • Bug Fix: Basic attack animation desynchronized with damage application.

V6.21

• PROJECT: Yasuo
  • Steel Tempest
    • Bug Fix: Pixelation on third cast's maximum range indicator.

V6.18

• Stats
  • Base attack speed increased to 0.67 from 0.658.
  • Attack speed growth reduced to 2.5% from 3.2%.
• Last Breath
  • New Effect: Bonus armor penetration only applies to Yasuo's critical strikes.
  • Bug Fix: Yasuo dealing a basic attack's worth of extra damage when casting.

V6.17

• Last Breath
  • Bug Fix: First basic attack after casting being delayed if critically striking.

V6.16

• Sweeping Blade
  • Bug Fix:  Grasp of the Undying's cooldown refreshing when attempting to cast on a target the dash immunity is still active on.

V6.14

• Steel Tempest
  • Bug Fix: Not always critically striking when Yasuo has 100% critical strike chance.
• Wind Wall
  • Bug Fix: Failing to block projectiles if cast right when Yasuo dies.
• Sweeping Blade
  • Bug Fix: Yasuo sometimes becoming unable to use basic attack after casting.
  • Bug Fix: Yasuo ignoring both cooldown (regular and per target) and cast time if used while displaced and on on multiple targets.
• Last Breath
  • Bug Fix: Yasuo sometimes becoming unable to use basic attack after casting.

V6.2

• Steel Tempest
  • Bug Fix: Third cast and casts during Sweeping Blade bypassing spell shields in certain situations.
• Wind Wall
  • Bug Fix: Ceasing to block projectiles if Yasuo dies while active.

V6.1

• Wind Wall
  • Bug Fix: Being bypassed by certain unit-targeted abilities ( Pick a Card) as it spawns.

V5.14

• Steel Tempest
  • Bug Fix: Third cast not applying on-hit effects.

V5.8

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Flow generation reduced to 1 stack per 59 / 52 / 46 (based on level) units from 1 per 46 at all levels.
  • Shield strength increased to 100 – 510 (based on level) from 60 – 470 (based on level).

V4.21

• Stats
  • Movement speed increased to 345 from 340.
• Steel Tempest
  • Cooldown reduced to 4 seconds at all ranks from 5 / 4.75 / 4.5 / 4.25 / 4.

V4.18

• Stats
  • Base health lowered to 462 from 512.
  • Base movement speed lowered to 340 from 350.

V4.17

• Steel Tempest
  • Bug Fix: Going on a shorter cooldown if cast during Sweeping Blade.

V4.13

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Shield duration reduced to 1 second from 1.5.
• Steel Tempest
  • Minimum cast time increased to 0.18 seconds from 0.13.
  • Cooldown reduction from attack speed reduced (maximum amount needed for minimum cast time unchanged).
  • Bug Fix: Third cast dealing instant damage in first cast range when used in quick succession.
• Wind Wall
  • Removed: Passive bonus Flow per Sweeping Blade cast.

V4.12

• Sweeping Blade
  • Bug Fix: Sometimes not triggering Spellblade.

V4.11

• Sweeping Blade
  • Maximum bonus damage reduced to 50% at 2 stacks from 100% at 4.

V4.5

• Stats
  • Base armor increased to 19 from 15.

V4.3

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Shield strength reduced to 60 – 470 (based on level) from 60 – 690 (based on level).
  • Shield duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2.

V4.2

• Way of the Wanderer
  • Flow generation reduced to 1 stack per 46 units from 1 per 40.
• Steel Tempest
  • New Effect: Displays a maximum range indicator while third cast is available.
• Wind Wall
  • Passive bonus Flow stacks per Sweeping Blade cast reduced to 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 / 15 from 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 20.
• Last Breath
  • Range reduced to 1200 from 1300.

V4.1

• Way of the Wanderer
  • New Effect: 10% reduced damage applies to Statikk Shiv.
• Steel Tempest
  • New Effect: Third cast uses smart casting by default.
  • Interaction with Sweeping Blade updated for reliability.
• Wind Wall
  • Removed: Blocking allied Dark Spheres.
• Last Breath
  • New Effect: Grants maximum Flow on cast.
  • Animation time reduced by 0.1 seconds.
  • Bug Fix: Yasuo blinking to targets who flashed out of a displacement's target location right before being hit.
  • Bug Fix: Cooldown timer tracking error in HUD and Spectator Mode.

V3.15

• Added.

Trivia

• Yasuo - Yone is one of seven pairs of sibling champions (the others being Jinx - Vi, Cassiopeia - Katarina, Kayle - Morgana, Garen - Lux, Nasus - Renekton, and Darius - Draven).
  • Though not a pair, Anivia, Ornn, and Volibear are also siblings.
• The flute Yasuo plays in his dance emote is most likely a Shakuhachi (harmonica for High Noon; wind controller for PROJECT).
  • His Classic 'dance' references a performance of this instrument.
    • A side by side comparison can be seen here.
    • Yasuo is the first champion to have an emote that will orient itself the same (dancing emote, facing the bottom-right of the screen), no matter what direction Yasuo was facing. Akali is the second.
  • The melody of his Classic dance complements Yone's when the two use the dance emote simultaneously. A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.
• Yasuo's design is largely based on the Japanese rōnin (lit. a wanderer), a samurai whose masters had died or stripped of titles & lands. Many rōnin became mercenaries, bodyguards, or even criminals.
• The length of Yasuo's sword is about that of a tachi or even an ōdachi. However, he wears it cutting edge up like the shorter katana.
• Yasuo [jasɯ̟ᵝo] is a Japanese masculine given name, rendered as 康夫 (roughly "peaceful man") in the Japanese localization.
  • From Old Japanese *yasu- "cheap, easy > peaceful" & masculine morpheme *wo.
• Way of the Wanderer's modified critical strike chance references Samurai gameplay portrayals in video games.
• For April Fools' Day 2017, a video showcasing a joke rework for Yasuo was posted by the official Riot Games Twitter account.
  • Way of the Wanderer was shown to have Resolve's shield also provide crowd control immunity, similar to Morgana's Black Shield.
  • Steel Tempest's third cast was shown to split into three additional whirlwinds in a cone after hitting a champion, similar to Graves' Collateral Damage.
  • Wind Wall was shown to form a pentagon of walls, similar to Thresh's The Box.
    • Notably, this 'protection from projectiles from all angles' mechanic was later implemented by Samira's Blade Whirl.
  • Sweeping Blade was shown to be able to target wards and champion summoned units (e.g. Demacian Standard).
  • Last Breath was shown to be able to be recast for a seemingly infinite amount of times while the affected champion is still airborne.
• A functional real-life replica of Yasuo's Steel Blade was crafted in an episode of YouTube series Man At Arms: Reforged.
  • This video can be viewed here.
    • There are also videos where the following are crafted:
      • Diana's Crescent Moonblade (functional)
      • Katarina's Daggers (functional)
      • Leona's Zenith Blade (functional)
      • Master Yi's 'Highlander' Ring Sword (functional)
      • Poppy's Hammer of Orlon (functional, but impractically wieldy)
      • Ziggs' Hexplosive Bomb (prop)
• At 25 August 2018, on the statement "One of my favorites", players ranked Yasuo 2nd in CN and 56th in NA. On "Fair to play against" they ranked him 23rd in CN and 137th in NA. Overall on "Gameplay, Visuals, Voice, etc.." they ranked him 1st in CN and 38th in NA.
• As an easter egg, in Set 4 of Teamfight Tactics, Yasuo would flash a Mastery 7 emote if he single-handedly defeats the enemy team as the only remaining unit. This references the community stereotype of Yasuo players loving to flash their Mastery in League of Legends matches.
  • A video demonstration of this can be seen here.

See also

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Flow

Flow is a resource that must be generated before being usable, compared to Mana that exists in some quantity beforehand. It is represented beneath the health bar that is blue until filled, and then white. Unlike Fury and its variants, however, Flow is not affected by the unit's combat status. With only one example of Flow, the validity of this exception may be called into question in the future.

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Attack windup

The attack windup is a portion of the basic attack animation that must play out in order to launch it. For projectile basic attacks, the windup usually aligns with drawing the projectile on-screen.

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The attack windup is displayed as a percentage, and any windup modifier is listed as a decimal next to it.

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Attack speed ratio

The Attack speed ratio (AS ratio) adjusts the effectiveness of bonus AS from all sources. It is usually equal to the unit's base AS (level 1 with no bonuses), but tuning to a higher or lower relative value translates to more or less bonus AS received compared to other units with the same base AS.

Total AS = Base AS + Bonus AS × AS Ratio
(All values in decimal form)

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The ingame stats HUD displays the AS ratio instead of base AS to communicate this comparative effectiveness. The Wiki opts to always list both stats and show the AS ratio as "N/A" if the two are equal.

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Gameplay radius

A unit's gameplay radius is a stat that most closely resembles the concept of a 'hitbox', and is the radius used for edge range effects, which include basic attacks, line collision missiles, rectangular AOEs, and others. The gameplay radius determines the reach of both incoming and outgoing effects: for example, enemies are within a unit's  basic attack range based on the edge of their gameplay radius and vice versa.

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Selection radius

A unit's selection radius is a stat that determines the horizontally furthest point from the center of their model that other players' cursor is allowed to be, while still maintaining the ability to select that unit.

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Pathing radius

A unit's pathing radius is a stat that determines the gameplay area they occupy for unit-collision and pathfinding logic. A unit's center cannot intersect with another unit's pathing radius, unless one of them is ghosted.

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Selection height

A unit's selection height is a stat that determines the vertically furthest point from the center of their model at the ground that other players' cursor is allowed to be, while still maintaining the ability to select that unit.

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Gameplay in League of Legends takes place in two dimensions no matter the visuals. However, a virtual height dimension that is perpendicular to the ground creates the game's three-dimensional view, which in combination with the camera's perspective necessitates the usage of the selection height.

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Acquisition radius

A unit's acquisition range is a stat that determines the distance at which they will acquire attack targets when a target unit is not specified by the player.

• Auto-attacking automatically orders an idle champion to acquire enemies within this range. This can be disabled in the Settings.
• Attack-move commands scan for targets within this range while moving toward a given location.

 Attack range bonuses modify the champion's acquisition range by the same amount.

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Top

Within a drafted team, the Top Laner is the champion assigned to the top lane.

Juggernauts, Divers, Battlemages, Skirmishers, and Vanguards are the most likely champions to be selected in the Top Lane position.

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Middle

Within a drafted team, the Mid Laner is the champion assigned to the mid lane.

Burst Mages, Artillery Mages, and Assassins are the most likely champions to be selected in the Mid Laner position.

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Bottom

Within a drafted team, the Bottom Carry is one of the two champions assigned to the bottom lane alongside the Support. Being the most vulnerable, the Bottom Carry has to acquire as much gold as possible to purchase key items that will greatly increase their fighting potential.

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Within a duo lane, the optimal strategy for earning gold is to designate a single champion to farm while the other is recommended to purchase an economy item. The Bottom Carry is expected to fulfill the former designation: the position is made for champions that highly depend on item-based power spikes.

Marksmen are the most likely champions to be selected in the Bottom Carry position.

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Skirmisher

Slayers (formerly "Assassins") are fragile but agile damage-focused melee champions that look to swiftly take down their targets.

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Skirmishers (also known as Duelists) aim to shred through any nearby enemy that approaches. Because Skirmishers lack high-end burst damage or reliable ways of closing in on high-priority targets, they are instead armed with situationally powerful defensive tools to survive in the fray, along with extreme sustained damage to cut down even the most durable targets.

Examples

• Fiora
• Jax
• Yasuo

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Fighter (Legacy)

Fighters are durable and damage-focused melee champions that look to be in the thick of combat.

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Assassin (Legacy)

Assassins are fragile but agile damage-focused melee champions that look to swiftly take down their targets.

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Melee

Melee champions have a basic attack  range usually within 200 units. A melee attack does not use a projectile to deal damage, therefore not subject to effects that mitigate projectiles, like Wind Wall. Some champions can shift between a ranged and melee form, and certain items/runes differ for melee characters.

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Shield

A shield adds hitpoints over the unit's  health that absorbs the next instances of damage in place of actual health. This can be improved by various items and effects depending on the type of shielding.

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Incoming shields can trigger bonus effects from Shield Bash. Outgoing shields can trigger bonus effects from Summon Aery, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. Shield reduction effects, exclusively Serpent's Fang, reduce all incoming and outgoing shields.

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Champion

Champions are the player-controlled characters in League of Legends. Each champion possesses unique abilities and attributes.

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Monster

Monsters are neutral units in League of Legends. Unlike minions, monsters do not fight for either team, and will only do so if aggroed (provoked) – with the exception of the Rift Scuttler, which simply runs away when attacked.

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Arena

Arena is a team deathmatch game mode organized in a tournament format that consists of eight teams of two players fighting on six different battlefields. Teams brawl in rotating combat rounds while powering themselves up with unique Augments and Items and using multiple environmental features to their advantage, in a display of both deeply tactical and highly explosive combat until the last team standing.

Regular Modes

• 8-Team Round-Robin Tournament

Battlefields — The Grand Reckoning

• Ancestral Woods
• Desert Oasis
• Frostbite Thicket
• Koi Pond
• Magma Chamber
• Reckoner Arena

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Edge range

Edge range is calculated from the edge of a source unit's hitbox to the edge of a target unit's hitbox.

• Edge range is mostly used for basic attacks; skill shots; and point-blank areas of effect (including auras).
• These become more effective against large champions, as the source gains more reach against them. This may be favorable or unfavorable: durable champions tend to be larger and thus easier to hit, and frail champions tend to be smaller and more difficult to hit.

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Centered range

Centered range is calculated from the center of a source unit's hitbox to the center of a target unit's hitbox.

• Centered range is used for most unit-targeted abilities.
• It is less effective and may seem to have diminished reach against large units.

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On-hit effect

On-hit is an umbrella term for a type of effect that triggers on instances of basic damage, or generally upon a basic attack or certain attack-like ability hitting a target. Most on-hit effects deal proc damage or default damage, which are non-reactive (= the effects don't trigger more effects).

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• Critical strikes are not on-hit effects. An ability listed as applying on-hit effects cannot critically strike unless otherwise stated.
•  Life steal is not an on-hit effect. Damage from on-hit effects normally does not apply life steal, unless those effects deal basic damage or are special-cased to benefit from life steal.

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The ability counterpart to on-hit effects are ability effects, which apply on instances of ability damage.

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On-attack

On-attack effects refer to various instances that are triggered by the user when they finish their basic attack windup.

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Unlike on-hit effects, on-attack effects do not require the user to land their basic attacks, only to finish their windup. Abilities that trigger on-attack effects will do so upon successfully hitting the target.

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Critical strike

Critical strike refers to an effect that deals increased damage under specific circumstances, denoted as   critical strike damage. The most common form of critical strike occurs on basic attacks, which triggers based on  critical strike chance.

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By default, a critical strike deals 175% of the normal damage. Critical damage modifiers such as Infinity Edge can increase this percentage.

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Sweeping Blade

TARGET IMMUNITY: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6

Active: Yasuo dashes in the target enemy's direction, dealing magic damage, briefly becoming ghosted, and generating a stack of Ride the Wind for a few seconds, stacking up to a cap.

Sweeping Blade cannot be cast on the same target for a period.

Ride the Wind: Each stack increases Sweeping Blade's damage.

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Airborne

A unit that is knocked airborne undergoes a forced displacement in a specified direction, to a specific point, or for a set duration at its current location, during which it is also unable to control its movement, declare attacks, cast abilities, activate items or use the summoner spells Flash, Teleport, Hexflash, and Mark / Dash.
Airborne is an immobilizing effect.

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Interrupts:	Interrupts attack windups (excluding uncancellable windups), and all channeled and charged abilities. The accompanying displacement overrides all other previous displacements, including dashes and other airborne effects.
Reduction:	The duration of airborne and its forced movement execution time is unaffected by Tenacity.
Resist:	Resisted by crowd control immunity, displacement immunity, and Dr. Mundo's Goes Where He Pleases.
Removal:	The forced movement that is applied alongside airborne effects cannot be removed by cleanses, which innately disables attacking and moving and can be overridden by dashing, blinking or lunging. Cleansing effects, with the exceptions of Milio's Breath of Life, Cleanse, Mikael's Blessing, and Quicksilver, remove the airborne status effect.

Crowd control applied by one's self or an ally cannot be countered in any way, neither reduced in duration, resisted, nor removed unless special cased to do so.

• The crowd control effect may still be cleansed if it is applied as a debuff separate from the originated ability.

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Disarming crowd control

A unit that is affected by disarming crowd control is unable to use basic attacks and will have their attack windup be interrupted upon affliction. The following crowd control effects disable attacking:

• Airborne
• Charm
• Disarm
• Flee
• Sleep
• Stasis
• Stun ( Suspension)
• Suppression

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Note that Berserk and Taunt do not fall under this category because they do not disable attacking altogether; they only inhibit attack commands from being followed.

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Blink

A blink refers to a form of movement whereby a unit displaces from point A to B without traversing the space between.

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Physical damage

• Applies:
  • Black Cleaver's Carve
  • Chempunk Chainsword's, Executioner's Calling's and Mortal Reminder's Grievous Wounds
  • Omnivamp
  • Physical vamp
• Mitigated by:
  • Damage shields
  • Invulnerability
  • Damage reduction
  •  Armor
  • Physical shields
  • Death's Dance

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Basic damage

Basic damage is the damage dealt by most basic attacks, and a select few abilities. Most sources of basic damage have the physical damage sub-type, but this is not guaranteed.

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Many effects are triggered whenever you deal an instance of basic damage. For example:

• Wit's End, Blade of the Ruined King and Tiamat.
•  Life steal, Omnivamp and Physical vamp (where applicable) heal for a percentage of basic damage dealt.
• Basic damage is negated by dodge and block.

Effects triggered by damage sub-types will occur (e.g. The Black Cleaver on instances of Physical damage and Morellonomicon on instances of Magic damage).

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Area damage

Area damage is the damage type dealt by most area of effect abilities, as well as a select few basic attacks, items and runes. Area damage is not exclusive to being applied by purely physical, magic or true damage, and instead can be dealt by any of the three damage sub-types.

• Spell vamp heals with one-third effectiveness.
• Many items effects are triggered whenever you deal an instance of area damage (i.e. ability effects).
  • For example: Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment and Luden's Companion.
  • Compared to single target spell damage, area damage does not trigger Muramana.
• Arcane Comet's current cooldown is reduced by 10% whenever you deal an instance of area damage to a champion.
• Area damage is reduced by 25% versus Jax's Counter Strike.
• Many champion summoned units such as Elise's Spiderlings, Yorick's Mist Walkers, and Naafiri's Dune Hounds take reduced damage from area damage.

Effects triggered by damage subtypes will occur (i.e. physical, magic or true).

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Heal

Healing replenishes a unit's  current health, but never above their maximum health.

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Outgoing heals can trigger bonus effects from Summon Aery, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water.

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Projectile

A projectile or missile is any entity not classified as a unit ( champion, minion, monster, etc.) that travels at any given velocity.

• Moving units are not considered projectiles under any circumstance (including dashing units, airborne units, or units thrown by some abilities such as Force of Will or Roar of the Slayer.).
• Braum's Unbreakable, Mel's Rebuttal, Samira's Blade Whirl, and Yasuo's Wind Wall can block, destroy and / or stop projectiles.
  • Some ranged basic attacks (including turrets) and abilities don't use projectiles and will bypass projectile-blocking effects.
• Some abilities will destroy all currently incoming homing projectiles.

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Dodge

Dodging an instance of damage will skip its damage event entirely, preventing it from being taken and effects that trigger from damage. Dodge takes precedence over block, but not blind.

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Effects that dodge damage will only dodge instances that are dodgeable. Note that these are specified in the ability details on the Wiki.

Basic attacks and abilities that apply on-hit effects are always dodged, unless otherwise stated.

This effect is exclusive to Jax's Counter Strike and Nilah's Jubilant Veil.

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Block

Blocking an instance of damage will reduce its value to 0, but does not prevent effects that trigger from damage. Blind and dodge take precedence over block.

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Effects that block damage will only block instances that are blockable. Note that these are specified in the ability details on the Wiki.

Basic attacks and abilities that apply on-hit effects are always blocked, unless otherwise stated.

This effect is exclusive to Shen's Spirit's Refuge and is similar though mechanically different to Dodge.

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Blind

A unit that is blinded will miss their basic attacks for the duration, comparable to attacking a target that is able to dodge or block, but not mechanically similar. Missed basic attacks will fail to deal damage and apply on-hit effects, with the exception of some empowered basic attacks. Blind does not prevent the unit from declaring attacks, unlike Disarm.

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Interrupts:	Does not interrupt any actions, but will prevent on-hit effects from being triggered by basic attacks.
Reduction:	The duration is affected by Tenacity.
Resist:	Resisted by crowd control immunity.
Removal:	Removed by Cleanses with the exception of Mikael's Blessing.

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Critical strike

Critical strike refers to an effect that deals increased damage under specific circumstances, denoted as   critical strike damage. The most common form of critical strike occurs on basic attacks, which triggers based on  critical strike chance.

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By default, a critical strike deals 175% of the normal damage. Critical damage modifiers such as Infinity Edge can increase this percentage.

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Last Breath

COOLDOWN: 70 / 50 / 30

Active: Yasuo blinks to the target airborne enemy champion and instantly generates max Flow. He then briefly knocks up, reveals, and deals physical damage to all nearby airborne enemies.

He becomes empowered for some time, causing his critical strikes to gain  bonus-armor penetration.

Bonus-armor penetration affects  bonus armor only.

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Spell shield

A spell shield refers to one of several effects that have the capacity to negate hostile abilities from applying to the recipient. A spell shield may negate many active effects coming from champion abilities, epic monsters, champion summoned units, and items, but almost none from runes and summoner spells with the only exceptions of Arcane Comet, Unleashed Smite, and Primal Smite which will be blocked.

• See the article for more details.

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Sight

Sight is a property of units, structures, certain summoner spells, items, and abilities that represents a team possessing vision of a target area or unit. It is always center range. A line of vision cannot extend beyond terrain or an unrevealed brush.

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Sight can also refer to an effect that makes a unit visible regardless of the fog of war or brush, allowing them to be targeted. Standard sight cannot see stealthed units, but True Sight can.

• Nearsight is a crowd control debuff that inhibits sight; allied vision is lost in addition to a reduced sight radius.
• Obscured vision is similar to sight in a way that it can observe units, but does not render units targetable, rather it exposes their position and informs of their presence.
• Unobstructed vision is a form of sight that allows a unit to be able to see their full vision radius, ignoring any obstructions that would otherwise restrict visibility.
• All effects that use unit-targeting require sight of the target. Delayed unit-targeted attacks and spells can cancel if sight of the selected target is suddenly lost.