How to win lane as Karma against Yasuo · 49.02% win rate (7,540 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Wind Wall eats Q and RQ — tether through it (W is wall-proof) and shield his dash-chain instead of racing his poke.
Track: Yasuo's W — Wind Wall (25–17s cooldown). Blocks every projectile for its duration — hold your poke until it is spent.
Read from Karma's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yasuo.
This is Karma's own plan; across 7,540 pooled games the lane is leaning Yasuo.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Karma | Karma's poke and shield dominate lane while Yasuo lacks a knockup source to engage |
| Level 2 | Karma | Same range and shield advantage continues as Yasuo still can't reliably close distance |
| Level 3 | Karma | Karma's poke keeps winning as Yasuo's engage tools remain situational without setup |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Even trading as both champions' cooldowns and windows roughly cancel out around this point |
| Level 6 | Yasuo | Yasuo's Last Breath all-in and windwall block create a genuine threat window in his favor |
| First item | Yasuo | Yasuo's crit-item burst and knockup setups win skirmishes decisively in this window |
| Two+ items | Karma | Karma's scaled Mantra-R utility and poke damage let her out-value Yasuo's single-target burst in late teamfights |
Before 6 Yasuo has no reliable way to close the gap on you — Steel Tempest whiffs without a knockup source, so Inner Flame and Inspire let you freely poke and deny his farm through level 5. Track Yasuo Wind Wall: 25s at rank 1, 17s maxed, 4 seconds of blocked projectiles — your Q and Mantra-Q die in it, your targeted W tether does not.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Karma's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Karma vs Yasuo report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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Yasuo, slightly — Karma wins 49.02% of 7,540 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Yasuo has a small statistical edge (50.98% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Yasuo has the slight edge (Karma wins 49.02%), though it stays close.
Karma takes Arcane Comet on the Sorcery tree with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch, and Inspiration secondary (Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight) vs Yasuo.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Lost Chapter (≈1300g) — the spam war funds itself. Build Blackfire Torch first, then Shadowflame, with Sorcerer's Shoes / Plated Steelcaps.
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