How to win lane as Yasuo against Brand · 50.73% win rate (3,734 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
His combo is aimed at a man with twelve dashes and a wall — make the aiming the whole story of his lane.
Track: Brand's Q — Sear (Stun, 8–6s cooldown). Q only stuns when you are ablaze — after eating W or E, the stun line is the dodge that matters.
Read from Yasuo's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Brand.
This is Yasuo's own plan; across 3,734 pooled games the lane is even.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yasuo | You favour L1: Brand has no early duel and his skillshots are trivial to dodge. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | You favour L2: a second Q point lets you punish his slow poke windup. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | You favour L3: your E-Q burst plus Wind Wall outclasses his single stun. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | You favour L4-5: you dash on cooldown and he has no dash to escape. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | You favour L6: Wind Wall and your knockup shut down his Pyroclasm burst. |
| First item | Even / skill | You favour 1st item: Kraken/Shieldbow lets you tank a rotation and kill an escapeless mage. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | You favour 2+ items: you dictate every engage, only losing if you dive Blaze+R raw. |
Brand is an immobile burst mage who relies on landing Sear; at levels 1-2 his skillshots are easy to sidestep and he has zero escape, so you hold priority and threaten Q. Track Sear (Q) is 8s at rank 1, 6s at rank 5, and only stuns while Blaze is on you — dodge it after his Pillar of Flame lands. Sear (Q) and Pillar of Flame (W) are slow skillshots; hold Wind Wall for the stun and E-dash on him the moment Conflagration (E) is spent — it is 13s down at rank 1.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Yasuo's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Yasuo vs Brand 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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Nobody on paper — a 50.73% win rate over 3,734 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Yasuo vs Brand is a genuine skill matchup: 50.73% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Yasuo vs Brand win rate is 50.73%, an even lane decided by execution.
Yasuo takes Lethal Tempo on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Bone Plating and Second Wind) vs Brand.
Start Doran's Blade + Health Potion and back for Noonquiver / Cloak piece (≈1000g). Build BotRK / Immortal Shieldbow first, then Infinity Edge, with Mercury's Treads / Berserker's.
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