How to win lane as Yasuo against Master Yi · 48.73% win rate over 630 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yasuo | Q poke and E mobility beat his bare level-1 kit. |
| Level 2 | Yasuo | At 2 your dash-poke pattern out-harasses his single Alpha Strike. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 evens out as his resets and second point come online. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 stay skill-decided while his attack speed ramps. |
| Level 6 | Master Yi | At 5-6 his Double Strike DPS out-trades your shield and he dodges your R setups. |
| First item | Master Yi | First item favors him - sustained DPS burns your Flow shield before you burst him. |
| Two+ items | Yasuo | Late, your crit scaling and mobility make you the safer duelist again. |
Levels 1-2 are yours to script: Steel Tempest poke taxes every last-hit and E Sweeping Blade lets you slide in, trade, and slide out before his single Alpha Strike answers - chip him relentlessly, because level 3 onward his resets arrive and the free-harass era closes for good.
The full Yasuo vs Master Yi 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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