Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
The stats shown here feature some vital Yasuo vs. Annie counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between these two champions. As an example, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Annie..
Yasuo usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Annie. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when trying to fight Annie, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Yasuo makes a bad counter for Annie.
While Yasuo does have a lower win rate compared to Annie, when on opposite teams, Yasuo also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Yasuo into Annieas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Yasuo has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Annie matchups, Annie is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Yasuo is a trash counter to Annie. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yasuo against Annie.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo in order to counter Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Annie. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Yasuo versus Annie build include Immortal Shieldbow, Mortal Reminder, and Death's Dance. When Yasuo bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Annie than with many other typical builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average winrate of 47.5% when countering Annie with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Annie as Yasuo, Yasuo players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Yasuo vs Annie LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Annie as Yasuo are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.