Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
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 stats shown here emphasize some valuable Akshan vs. Yasuo matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Yasuo..
Akshan normally has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. On average, they receives less damage than Yasuo. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually fairs equally well when taking on Yasuo, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes an ok counter to Yasuo.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate compared to Yasuo, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Yasuo.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter for Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Yasuo.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Yasuo. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Akshan versus Yasuo build include Kraken Slayer, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Akshan incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did much better vs Yasuo than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 49.0% battling Yasuo with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Yasuo as Akshan, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akshan vs Yasuo battles, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Yasuo as Akshan are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.