Everything You Need to Know About Yunara, The Unbroken Faith's Abilities — Overview

The second Season of 2025's three-Season run is well underway as Spirit Blossom Beyond enters its second act, and soon, the new champion will be launched. Having previously seen Mel Medarda, The Soul's Reflection as Welcome to Noxus, it's time for Yunara, The Unbroken Faith to take the limelight. As we do with new champions, we're going to take a look at the abilities and what you can expect from her to ease Riot Games' 200 years of collective game experience from confusing everyone.

Ironically, however, unlike the Medarda family, Yunara is bringing it back to basics, which has become an overall theme for the team considering Brawl's newcomer-friendly approach. This time, Yunara brings a breath of fresh air, meaning you won't need a spreadsheet to understand everything.

Here's what you need to know.

What Role is Yunara, The Unbroken Faith?

Riot Games is bringing to players a brand-new ADC, being the first one to join the fray since Smolder's release on the 31st of January 2024. Many players are describing her as a "new-and-improved Ashe", which is hilarious considering Ashe recently got a Spirit Blossom skin very similar to Yunara.

As a marksman, she's expected to be played in the botlane as ADC, but that won't stop players from stretching her kit to take her to mid and top. Because we know the League of Legends community. And this tends to happen.

A lot.

Transcend One's Self

R

We're going to deviate a bit from our usual approach of talking about champions to mention Yunara's ultimate because it'll be far more succinct of an article if we do. Though she's a simple champion the likes of Ashe or Zeri, this doesn't mean that Riot Games isn't giving her at least a splash of the 200 years of experience.

When activating her ultimate, Yunara taps into her full power, entering a transcended state for 15 seconds, adjusting and improving all of her basic abilities for the duration. The reason we wanted to bring this up first is simple: this works essentially like Karma's ultimate, Mantra, just that instead of being a single-cast attack, it'll be for the duration of the ultimate.

We'll be touching on all abilities henceforth, talking about their base version and ultimate version, so you can better grasp how Yunara changes when she activates Transcend One's Self.

Vow to the First Lands

Passive

Yunara deals magic damage on her crits. That's it. No, really, we can move on — we told you that Yunara is going to be quite simple!

Yunara deals a bonus 10% magic damage when she crits, scaling with 0.1% of AP, meaning an extra 10% every 100 AP, making her great to play with hybrid and on-hit builds.

Cultivation of Spirit

Q

This is where the "Ashe" part of Yunara comes into play, and it's also a bit more complex than the rest of her kit. It has two parts: a passive and an active.

Passively, Cultivation of Spirit enhances Yunara's basic attacks to deal bonus magic damage on-hit, generating stacks of Unleash while the ability isn't active and can last for six seconds. Yunara gains one stack for attacking monsters and two for attacking Champions or critting, and once maxed out (eight stacks), she can activate the ability at the cost of her stacks.

Once activated, Yunara becomes empowered for five seconds, gaining bonus attack speed, dealing bonus magic damage (increased from 5/10/15/20/25 (+10% AP) to 10/15/20/25/30 (+10% AP)) on-hit, and doing a bit of damage spread to nearby targets for 30% AD physical damage.

There are a few notes to keep in mind about the attack spread: the range seems to work similarly to Ryze's Flux, and the AoE-esque damage can apply on-hit effects at 30% effectiveness and will critically strike if the original hit does (so if one crits, they all crit). Likewise, it'll apply lifesteal at 30% effectiveness, and it'll deal 250% damage to minions who are below 30% of their max health, giving her some strong pushing power.

This is the ability most similar to Ashe's, but instead, Yunara focuses more on AoE damage rather than single-target obliteration.

Transcend One's Self immediately activates Cultivation of Spirits, giving it a massive duration buff (from the base five to 15, which is the entire duration of her ultimate).

Arc of Judgment

W

Arc of Judgment send a spinning prayer bead in a target direction, which moves forward until it reaches its destination. When coming into contact with an enemy (minion, champion, or monster), it slows down significantly, dealing damage every 0.25 seconds and slowing the target by 99%, decaying over 1.5 seconds

The ability also has an execute feature on minions, which will kill them if they would be killed by six more damage instances from the lingering effect, instead executing them on spot.

Her Transcend One's Self evolution is Arc of Ruin, and instead turns the ability into a spirit beam that deals damage in the target direction, doing equal parts physical and magic damage. The damage scales with Transcend One's Self rank (rather than Arc of Judgment, taking away the need to max it first for burst, mage-like builds), and it does a flat 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 100% AD) ) (+150% AP), giving it a slightly stronger AP scaling (but remember: it does equal parts AD and AP, so it splits that damage between both outputs).

Kanmei's Steps

E

This is Yunara's movement ability, and it's the simplest: when activated, she becomes ghosted (meaning she can't be intercepted by target collision like minions or champions) and gains a decaying movement speed bonus for two seconds (60/65/70/75/80%), which is even higher if she's facing a nearby champion (90/97.5/105/112.5/120%), incentivising it as a chasing tool.

When Transcend One's Self is active, Kanmei's Steps becomes Untouchable Shadow, instead turning the ability into a dash. Transcend One's Self does reset the cooldown of Kanmei's Steps, so you can cast it before ulting and cast it again (E, R, E) for a burst of movement to escape or chase.

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Yunara launches in Patch 25.14,on the 16th of July 2025.