Kled vs Yasuo Counter Pick

Yasuo carries the maximum difficulty rating of 10 and generates no mana at all, running on Flow, and both facts point the same way: this is settled by execution rather than by statistics. Kled takes 55.9% of 256 games on patch 16.13.1. Wind Wall is the ability that should swing it, four seconds of blocking every enemy projectile, including the thrown Bear Trap on a Rope that starts most of Kled’s sequences.

What undercuts it is the rest of the exchange. Sweeping Blade cannot be re-cast on the same enemy, so a Yasuo who dashes in commits to standing there, and standing still against four accelerated attacks from Violent Tendencies is expensive. The armor curve on the Cavalier, 35 at level one to 123.4 at 18, answers a physical profile, and the Way of the Wanderer shield only builds while moving, which a shackled target is not doing. Skaarl changes the arithmetic of Last Breath as well: dismounting mid-fight leaves a 410-health champion rather than a dead one, and Courage returns quickly enough that a second engage is often available. Yasuo scales to 2,460 health against 1,838 and holds 175 range against 125, so a passive Cavalier is simply outclassed later; base attack damage reads 65 against 60 in the rider’s favour, and the winning pattern is repeated short engagements around the Wind Wall cooldown.