How to win lane as Akali against Yasuo · 51.15% win rate over 2,544 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yasuo | You have only Q and no Shroud, and his Windwall blocks your kunai while he out-pokes you with double-Q — concede and last-hit at range. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Still no Shroud to reset, and any Q you throw can be walled — trade with empowered autos off your spell rings, not committed kunai. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | His tornado threat and Windwall keep the kunai unreliable, but with no jungle pressure neither of you can commit a kill here. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Twilight Shroud comes online to break his target lock and reset trades, but he still has Windwall and a minion-refreshing dash, so it's a coin-flip. |
| Level 6 | Akali | At 6 your E-dash plus R's two-cast missing-health execute runs him down — fire it while Windwall is down and before his tornado-R lands. |
| First item | Akali | Your Lich Bane spike makes the E-empowered-auto-Q combo a real burst that outpaces his half-built Infinity Edge line — force every all-in now. |
| Two+ items | Yasuo | He out-scales hard: 2+ crit items plus Windwall outlast your single burst rotation, so close early and let your team handle late Yasuo. |
Yasuo's Windwall (W) is the whole early problem — it blocks your Five Point Strike kunai cold for its full duration, so don't fan Q into a raised wall or you're left energy-starved with nothing back. You have no Twilight Shroud yet and only Q at Level 1, so concede the first few levels: last-hit at Q range, eat his double-Q poke, and don't walk into his tornado window. The upside is he can't kill you here either as long as you respect the wall and don't burn E chasing a dash he can refresh through minions.
The full Akali 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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