The bug is fairly simple, if annie uses Disintegrate with her passive charged on a spellshield, it will use up the charge and waste the stun. However, if she does the same thing and it is blocked by Yasuo's Wind Wall, then the passive charge will not be used up. Entirely reproducible.
MasticatingGrill2 votesThe bug is fairly simple, if annie uses Disintegrate with her passive charged on a spellshield, it will use up the charge and waste the stun. However, if she does the same thing and it is blocked by Yasuo's Wind Wall, then the passive charge will not be used up. Entirely reproducible.
Is not bug is feature. Q did not hit a champ so the stun is not proc'ed. Annie counters Yasuo especially in early game. Be cagier. Harrass. Get CS. Get a gank. Post six bait her stun and dash outside when she tries to cast, then tornado and ult. Expect your flow shield to be 100% useless 100% percent of the time against her. Same as Yasuo against half the champs in League.
I have been getting skilled Yasuos with runes against me with no runes lately, sometimes I cannot mercilessly farm them.
Tadiken1 votesIt is definitely a bug. I am not asking how to beat annie as yasuo, I am just mentioning that counterplay in place in the game is not functioning properly. When annie casts tibbers or incinerate and doesn't hit anyone, it still uses up her passive. If she uses her q and it does not hit the target because the target died before the q landed, the passive is used up. It is supposed to use the passive when it casts, and when it hits a wind wall, it fails to register that the spell casted.
MasticatingGrill1 votesThis has been documented for years in Annie vs Yasuo threads and Riot has not changed it.
If she stuns thru wall with her W it functions properly. If she uses R to proc stun and it clips with the wall, sometimes it does not stun.
If she uses Q and it hits pretty much anything other than the wind wall it will use up the stun. But. I can double check yet as I recall if the Q hits empty ground it actually does not use the stun. To my knowledge due to the mechanics of her Q it must hit a valid target before it procs the stun. Q procs on hit while W and R proc on cast. That is a critical difference.
This seems related to the risk/reward mechanic for Q as a single target refund-on-kill guaranteed hit spell. In exchange for losing an AoE hitbox and having a longer windup, the Q is less likely to waste her stun. Spellshields are supposed to proc and eat the stun. Sivir's special ability procs but I consider it a grey area. Honestly if Yasuo by design does not use up her stun, then Sivir probably should not either.
Again Annie was intended to counter Yasuo and if his wall ate her Q stun charge it would weaken the trade. That said, you'd have to be a bad Annie to be wasting Q casts on Yasuo. A rather bad Annie.
From the Annie side of this trade she needs to keep his Flow shield poked down with her super autos. She needs to harass during the first few levels, keep him low and keep him away. If he dashes close stun him with W then pop her Q and two autos into him. And E for insurance. If you bait his wall at close range, try to sidestep and Q past it. For maximum laughs.
In trade if Yasuo can get a little jg help or swap to top, he can build enough burst to probably win against her late game. But in 1v1 it seems like the Q mechanic is working as intended, just as it has for years before now.