How to win lane as Yasuo against Locke · 49.95% win rate (2,100 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
You stat-check him in every honest window — his only outs are the mark tax and the totem, so give him neither and Yasuo runs the lane.
Track: Locke's Q — Ritual Nails (10–6s cooldown). The nail marks are his whole engine — without 2-3 stacks on you his blink-in barely dents; sidestep the recasts and punish the ten seconds of nothing.
Read from Yasuo's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Locke.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yasuo | Wind Wall and your passive shield blank his level-1 Q poke. |
| Level 2 | Yasuo | At 2 the flow shield plus E spacing out-trades his Ritual Nails. |
| Level 3 | Yasuo | Level 3 double-Q into E dash trades free through his W self-damage. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yasuo | Levels 4-5 flow shield and mobility beat his grey-health commit. |
| Level 6 | Yasuo | Level 6 Last Breath off a knockup juggles him and nullifies his R totem. |
| First item | Even / skill | His Lich Bane lands before your crit item; it is even here. |
| Two+ items | Yasuo | Sustained crit plus Wind Wall shuts down his poke and execute late. |
Levels 1-3 he cannot touch you: the flow shield eats his opening poke, Wind Wall blanks entire Q Ritual Nails volleys, and E Sweeping Blade through minions lets you start and end trades at will while his W Soul Ignition burns his own health for damage you dodge - stack Q stacks and bully.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Yasuo's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Yasuo vs Locke 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 49.95% win rate over 2,100 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Yasuo vs Locke is a genuine skill matchup: 49.95% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Yasuo vs Locke win rate is 49.95%, an even lane decided by execution.
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