How to win lane as Malphite against Yasuo · 54.32% win rate over 1,007 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yasuo | Yasuo's Q double-strike and E dash out-trade you at level 1 — you have no W/E yet and just eat poke behind Granite Shield. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Still his edge, but it's softening — bank your Granite Shield, save Q for a real commit, and farm through his flow shield. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | By level 3 it's even-ish: he can't all-in a shielded tank and you can't punish his mobility yet, so it's a skill standoff on the wave. |
| Levels 4-5 | Malphite | W's bonus armor and E's attack-speed slow come online — your stacked armor turns his crit autos into chip damage you out-sustain. |
| Level 6 | Malphite | Unstoppable Force is your single biggest spike: it ignores his Windwall and knockup, and E guts his attack speed for the kill. |
| First item | Malphite | Your first armor item (Bramble/Sunfire) makes you a genuine frontline his pre-IE crits can't break — force trades now. |
| Two+ items | Yasuo | Hard scaler reclaims it: full-crit Yasuo with IE/Shieldbow and R off knockups out-damages your armor — peel, don't duel. |
Levels 1-3 are the only part of this lane that belongs to Yasuo. You have no trade pattern yet — Granite Shield is your only buffer and his Q double-strike plus E dash will out-poke you, so don't contest, just last-hit and let his flow shield pop on minions. Save your Q slow-bolt for when he actually commits, not to chuck across the wave where his Windwall can swallow it. Take the poke and know it does not matter once your armor turns on.
The full Malphite 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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