Yasuo, (with 56%/75% EU/NA pick-ban rate in Week 1) Officially Disabled for Week 2 of LCS

Bubble Butt Lulu·Jan 23, 2014·6 votes·926 views

Article:

http://esportwire.com/2014/01/22/yasuo-a-56-25-eu-75-na-pick-ban-rate-in-week-1-disabled-for-na-eu-lcs-this-week/

Reddit Thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1vwfwl/yasuo_with_5675_euna_pickban_rate_in_week_1/

12 Comments

Juju458Jan 23, 20142 votes

Well thats a huge disappointment to fans and players alike.

VexingRavenJan 24, 20141 votes

Speak for yourself, I'm overjoyed. Yasuo is so toxic a design it's not even funny.

Savage the KingJan 24, 20142 votes

Riot pls do not fix Yasuo, so as to keep him disabled. Or nerf him enough that he becomes a champion that can be dealt with. TY.

MackleDogeJan 24, 20141 votes

Beat his ass early game to make him useless in early teamfights and then CC him to burst him out. Simple as that.

MackleDogeJan 24, 20141 votes

How is his design toxic?

VexingRavenJan 25, 20142 votes

Designed to be difficult to kill, very mobile, with his own strong CC ult, strong synergy with the best tanks in the game, and plenty of damage. Free auto-shield is the worst mechanic in the game, followed closely by impenetrable walls and rapid/resetting dashes, and don't forget... He's manaless!

MackleDogeJan 25, 20141 votes

Stun him. Blow him up. That is the simplest form of counterplay there is with the current meta. Focus his lane early when he can't take advantage of his passive and zone him out because of his melee autoattack. Any champion is ridiculously powerful if you just sit around and let them bully you and do whatever they want. His windwall is on a very long cooldown and only requires your team to be smart about positioning to counter while his dashes leave him in vulnerable positions if you bait it out. You can't just declare a champion a toxic design because you or your team aren't willing to develop a solid team composition to deal with the threats that certain champions pose.

Best tanks in the game? You mean Mundo and Renekton who don't have knock-ups? Shyvana was recently nerfed pretty heavily and requires the opposition to be in poor position to have an effective ult and Trundle is an anti-tank pick to counter meta.

You also can't just say "no mana GG, toxic", that would make Aatrox, Vlad, Mordekaiser, Lee Sin, Zed, Zac, and others a toxic design, and that's just plain ignorant.

VexingRavenJan 25, 20141 votes

Sorry, you lost your credibility when you called Renekton and Shyvana tanks. They're fighters, not tanks. "Stun him and blow him up" applies to everybody and is a very weak excuse for counterplay, not to mention that his free automatic shield makes him less vulnerable to this than others.

The different between most of those and Yasuo is that they have some sort of resource or long cooldowns. Yasuo has neither except wind wall, leaving him free to poke and dash around all he wants with little consequence. Which is why I believe him to be very toxic: He's not punished for anything short of diving in 5v1 (shield, wind wall, dash to a minion. Repeatedly.), and rewarded very heavily for even the most basic of plays.

MackleDogeJan 25, 20141 votes

Lol, you're kidding me right? Shyvana isn't a tank? Do you even play League? That level of stupidity isn't even worth trying to explain something to.

VexingRavenJan 25, 20141 votes

Shyvana doesn't have enough CC or defensive abilities to be a tank. She's a fighter. Alistar and Malphite are tanks.