How to win lane as Akshan against Yasuo · 59.46% win rate over 74 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Both of you are weak at Level 1 — you have one passive shot and only Q, he can only E-dash to last-hit; neither side commits, so it's even. |
| Level 2 | Akshan | Your second passive shot plus Q poke comes online — feint his Windwall, then double-shot trade while W is on its long cooldown. |
| Level 3 | Akshan | E (Heroic Swing) at 3 lets you hook off terrain and fire while swinging at angles his Sweeping Blade can't punish — pure poke dominance. |
| Levels 4-5 | Akshan | These are your strongest laning levels: you out-range his E-farm and chip him on every CS while Windwall is down. |
| Level 6 | Akshan | R (Comeuppance) executes a low Yasuo — its up-to-200% missing-HP scaling turns any E-dash he commits while chunked into a free kill. |
| First item | Akshan | Youmuu's lethality plus the 0.5s E reset on a takedown is your power peak — your burst snowballs the lane and the map. |
| Two+ items | Yasuo | He out-scales hard: IE/Phantom Dancer crit and his R knockup let him E onto your squishy frame and delete you — play back and let your team handle him. |
Yasuo's Windwall (W) is the whole early game — it eats your Q boomerang AND your passive second shot (both projectiles), so never throw a Q into a Yasuo holding W. Feint with one Q from max range to draw it, then step up and double-shot trade while W sits on its long cooldown; your passive plus Q out-chips a Level 1-2 Yasuo who can only farm by E-dashing minion to minion. Watch his Sweeping Blade dashes — if he's spent them last-hitting, he can't gap-close or escape, and that's your window to walk up, land the third-stack proc, and grab your shield.
The full Akshan 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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