How to play Yunara — Wild Rift guide, combos & tips
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How to play Yunara — Wild Rift guide, combos & tips
Yunara is a scaling marksman in Wild Rift who blends ordinary auto-attacks with a surprising amount of bonus magic damage from her passive, Vow of the First Lands, and her Q, Cultivation of Spirit. She rewards patient auto-attacking early - stacking Unleash to unleash bursts of attack speed and splash damage - before scaling into one of the biggest power spikes in the game with her ultimate, a 15-second transformation that empowers her entire kit. Expect huge damage and real utility from her slows, balanced against paper-thin survivability and a rough laning phase.
Strengths
- Elite damage ceiling - Vow of the First Lands adds bonus magic damage on every crit, and Cultivation of Spirit (Q) layers even more magic damage onto her autos, so a stacked, itemized Yunara can out-damage almost any other marksman in a straight fight.
- Her ultimate, Transcend One's Self, is a genuine game-changer: 15 seconds of Transcendent State grants free-cost, cooldown-refreshed abilities (Arc of Ruin and Untouchable Shadow) that turn her into a burst-and-DPS hybrid capable of deleting priority targets.
- Arc of Judgment (W) gives her elite lane control and pick potential - a near-total slow that lingers and pulses extra damage, letting her zone, peel, or set up kills from range.
- Above-average teamfight utility for a marksman: repeated slows and a movement speed steroid let her assist picks and disengages, not just pad the damage meter.
Weaknesses
- Rock-bottom survivability - no shield and no hard defensive cooldown, so she folds to almost any dive or burst combo if caught out of position.
- Her early game revolves around standing still to auto-attack and build Unleash, which long-range poke or strong early all-ins punish hard.
- No real mobility outside her ultimate - Kanmei's Steps (E) only grants movement speed, not a dash, so she can be kited, run down, or locked down by hard CC whenever R is on cooldown.
- Completely reliant on landing auto-attacks to generate both resources and damage, so peel, zoning, or being kept at range shuts her whole kit down.
Combos
- AA -> Q -> AA: build Unleash stacks passively with your auto-attacks, then trigger Q's active for a burst of attack speed and splash damage, and keep swinging while the buff is live.
- W -> AA -> Q: land Arc of Judgment to slow the target near to a standstill, walk in to auto-attack safely behind the slow, then cash in your Unleash stacks for extra burst damage.
- R -> W -> AA -> E: enter Transcendent State, snap off the empowered Arc of Ruin beam for a big magic hit and a hard slow, then stick to the target with the Untouchable Shadow dash while your autos proc for free.
- E -> AA -> Q: use Kanmei's Steps's speed boost to close on or realign with a target, keep auto-attacking to stay stacked, then release Q to finish the trade.
Skill order: Q > W > E (max R at every opportunity) - Q is your core damage engine at every stage, W's slow and pulse damage are the next priority for lane control, and E's speed steroid scales the least from extra points.
Early game
Play for safe auto-attacks rather than all-in trades - every hit both pokes and builds Unleash, so there's no need to force fights before you have stacks or items. Use Arc of Judgment (W) from max range to punish overextensions and zone the wave without stepping into auto-attack range yourself. Respect early lane bullies with strong poke or all-in power, since you lose most trades before your ramp pays off - prioritize CS and safe stacking over forcing anything. Treat Kanmei's Steps (E) as a repositioning tool for bad trades, not a real escape, since it only grants speed rather than a dash.
Mid & late game — teamfighting
Once you have core items and level 5, fight from max range, auto-attacking whatever's nearby while your frontline engages, and keep Unleash topped up so Q is always ready to burst. Time your ultimate for a moment you can free-cast: open with the empowered Arc of Ruin for big magic damage and a near-total slow on the priority target, then stick to the fight with Untouchable Shadow's dash while your autos and Q proc for free during the 15-second window. Because the transformed W and E cooldowns refresh again the instant Transcendent State ends, hold back a second Arc of Ruin or Untouchable Shadow for right as the buff expires instead of dumping both immediately. Positioning is everything given how fragile you are, so never be the first target the enemy backline can see.
Pro tips
- Don't let Unleash decay for nothing - release Q right before or as a fight starts so the attack speed and splash damage land during the trade, not between skirmishes.
- Remember Transcendent State refreshes or discounts Arc of Ruin and Untouchable Shadow's cooldowns both when it starts and when it ends - that's two usable windows per ultimate, so plan to spend the second one instead of wasting it.
- Pre-place Arc of Judgment across chokepoints or river entrances instead of only reacting to enemy movement - the 1-second parked pulse rewards zoning space in advance rather than chasing a target down.