Yasuo vs Neeko — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yasuo against Neeko · 51.7% win rate over 648 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Yasuo is favoured — Yasuo owns 5 of the 7 game windows. Yasuo wins 51.7% of games vs Neeko in top lane (648 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1Even / skillLevel 1 is a skill lane — Neeko's Blooming Burst poke can trade even with sloppy play.
Level 2YasuoLevel 2 tilts to you as your second point starts winning the short trades.
Level 3YasuoLevel 3 is yours — Sweeping Blade lets you all-in a peel-less squishy mage.
Levels 4-5YasuoLevels 4-5 favour you: Wind Wall blocks her root and shuts down her burst combo.
Level 6Even / skillLevel 5 reads as skill — her clone tricks and Q-E poke peak and can punish mistakes.
First itemYasuoLevel 6 is yours: Last Breath kills her whenever her Tangle-Barbs is on cooldown.
Two+ itemsYasuo2+ items stay yours — crit Yasuo out-scales a squishy control mage in the sidelane.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Level 1 is a skill matchup — Neeko's Blooming Burst can out-poke you if you facecheck her bush or eat an early Tangle-Barbs, so play the wave clean until you have Sweeping Blade. After that your kill pressure ramps fast.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yasuo vs Neeko 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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