Spirit Blossom Yasuo
View on Wiki
Good (6.5/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
Paid Relics
Players disagree about Spirit Blossom Yasuo. Some consider his high cost and reliance on specific relics to be a major drawback, making him feel slow at lower star levels. While others praise his high-roll potential and powerful obliterate effects, finding his combo-heavy playstyle highly rewarding once fully upgraded.
Conduit Synergy
Provides crucial starting mana to accelerate his early game.
Generates a free spell every round to consistently trigger Gathering Storm.
Duplicates ephemeral units that have gained powerful epic items from becoming Storm Conduits.
Strategy
This build maximizes Spirit Blossom Yasuo's potential at 6 stars. Yasuo's Windblade provides crucial starting mana, while Perfect Hex Core generates a free spell every round to consistently trigger Gathering Storm. Spectral Scissors offers incredible synergy with his 6-star power, allowing you to duplicate ephemeral units that have gained powerful epic items, such as Rally, from becoming Storm Conduits.
Triple Trinket
Adds random champions to hand, triggering card draw and creating Storm Conduits.- Stacks the effect to generate more free champions.
- Maximizes the synergy with his 2-star power.
Strategy
An effective build utilizing only rare relics. Guardian's Trinket synergizes perfectly with his 2-star power. By adding random champions to your hand at the start of the adventure, you trigger card draw and immediately create Storm Conduits when they are played. This allows for rapid cost reduction and board swarming without relying on premium upgrades.
Mana Ramp and Reroll
Provides a massive early mana advantage, though it requires an external stat boost to activate.
Grants extra rerolls to dig for optimal powers.
Rewards flawless victories with additional rerolls and stats.
Strategy
A unique approach that focuses on tailoring your run through shops and powers. Starforged Gauntlets provides a massive early mana advantage, though it requires an external stat boost to reach Titanic status as his base stats are 7/7. Loaded Dice and The Card Master's Gambit reward flawless victories with rerolls, allowing you to aggressively dig for the perfect powers and cheap spells to fuel your engine.
Other Relic Options
His signature relic is highly controversial. While a flat 5-cost reduction and Overwhelm seem appealing, it is often considered a trap compared to generic mana acceleration, as it offers no utility for the rest of your deck.
An excellent choice for cheating Yasuo onto the board early. Because his obliterate effect triggers on summon, this relic guarantees immediate, powerful removal.
Solves his inherent lack of card draw while providing high-cost units that can be heavily discounted by his Gathering Storm mechanic.
A strong alternative to Perfect Hex Core, generating cheap spells to continuously trigger cost reductions.
Constellation
Spirit Blossom Yasuo requires significant investment to reach his full potential. His base kit can feel slow and cumbersome, heavily relying on his constellation upgrades to smooth out his mana curve and provide consistent win conditions. He is a combo-oriented champion that demands careful planning and specific relic setups to excel.
Calm Before The Storm
Round Start: A random card in your hand becomes a Storm Conduit if you don't already have one. When you play a card, Gather Storm.
Winds of Reflection
+1 Starting Mana. When you play a champion draw 1 and make it a Storm Conduit.Review
Essential for his engine, providing much-needed card draw and immediately discounting Storm Conduits when champions are played. This makes champion-generating relics highly valuable.
Calm Before The Storm II
Round Start and when you play a Storm Conduit: A random card in your hand becomes a Storm Conduit if you don't already have one. When you play a card, Gather Storm.Review
A major power spike that allows for chaining Gathering Storm effects, significantly increasing his tempo and cost-reduction capabilities.
Out the Gates
Game Start: Summon a 2 cost unit from your deck.Review
Provides a crucial early-game body that helps start his cost-reduction engine and serves as excellent fodder for spells or blocking.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
The extra starting mana is critical for accelerating his game plan, allowing him to deploy his expensive units several turns earlier.
Anointed by the Storm
When a card becomes a Storm Conduit, grant it a random Epic item.Review
Transforms his playstyle into a high-roll engine. Granting epic items to Storm Conduits creates explosive turns, especially when combined with relics that duplicate units or trigger rallies.
Gameplay Tips
- Manage Your Storm Conduits
When a new card becomes the Storm Conduit, the cost reduction progress starts from zero. Plan your turns carefully to maximize discounts before generating a new conduit.
- Prioritize Cheap Spells
Draft 0-cost and 1-cost cards aggressively. Playing these cheap cards rapidly fuels your Gathering Storm mechanic, allowing you to cheat out expensive units much earlier than intended.
- Leverage Summon Effects
Spirit Blossom Yasuo's obliterate effect triggers on summon, not on play. Relics and powers that revive or duplicate him will trigger this powerful removal multiple times.
- Bypass Spellshield
His obliterate effect is a card text ability, not a skill. This means it completely ignores enemy Spellshields, making it an incredibly reliable tool for removing resilient threats.
- Drafting Strategy
Focus on acquiring cheap interaction and draw rather than filling your deck with expensive units. Rely on his manifest abilities and cost reductions to generate your late-game finishers.