Yasuo Counterplay

Yasuo neutral

Play at a range to whiff punish wind wall (18f startup 33f recovery)
- If he gets it out you often have to wait until it goes away
- if they use hasagi you can jump and air dash over it
  - most Yasuos prefer tornado
- Tornado follow up
  - have to wait it out
Don’t jump at Yasuo, his anti-airs are too good
- only reason to is to read wind wall or hasagi
Play grounded
- His M isn’t bad but gets outranged by some characters.

Hasagi
- -12f on block but cancellable
- 19f recovery
- Poke
- Starts offense when blocked
- Can’t follow up with cross-up
- hasagi > 2S1 (stance cancel) ...
  - > dash throw
    - punishable
      - jump or mash
    - reactable
    - must rps with it even if you cant react
      - mash preemptively
  - > backdash
    - safe
  - > H
    - frame trap
    - wall slumps in corner
  - > 2S2 (hop) ...
    - > j.L j.2H
      - double overhead
    - > j.L 2L
      - low
- Press M after you block either cross-up move
Hop counterplay
- hop punishes mashing on throw
- If far
  - 2H on reaction
  - will hop over you and punish if too close
  - Up back
    - safest option
- If close
  - d.2H if close and you expect cross-up
    - hard
  - parry
  - rps (they can empty hop and punish)
  - air throw
  - Up back
    - safest option
- ==If you hop block you mush pushblock to avoid the 50/50
  - save pushblock for hop
Pushblock
- save pushblock for hop > j.L
If they try to air tech chase after stomp hold down for no tech
- If they whiff after you can punish with ‘M{:2xko}’
In Summary
- blocking hasagi starts his offense
  - dash cancels sometimes
  - must stuff with L or M or jump out
- If they hop from far
  - 2H
- if hop from close
  - air throw
- if hop and not sure
  - up back
- if you block hop
  - pushblock
- will frame trap sometimes