How about a nerf?

Despite the rage, this thread has hilarious insults nonetheless.

Anyway, about Yasuo. Yes, his kit is problematic, and yes, Riot was aware of it. But, said kit was also his signature (which Riot usually dislikes changing). As a late game champion, Yasuo is supposed to be weak early, so Riot enhanced his general weaknesses rather than creating some in his overloaded (compared to old champions, kind of balanced compared to newer ones though) kit. They nerfed his base HP a lot, to make him more prone to harass in lane and so he can't just make a comeback if he feeds just by buying two items.

This has recently happened to Kata (although with her, the problem is a lot clearer than Yasuo). She reached a huge ban rate, huge pick rate too and got a few slaps on the wrist which didn't change her much at all. Then, to avoid changing her kit, Riot nerfed her base HP hard to let you set her back more easily early game.

Anyways, old Yasuo had a huge ban rate and would probably be instalocked in 7/10 games that he wasn't banned. Truth being said, things weren't fine here either. Post nerf Yasuo lost a lot of his ban/pick rate (still has a decent one though, he is nowhere near gutted), but now is a lot harder for bad players to use. The kit is still the same, and it isn't healthy by any means, but Riot's only actually healthy addition to League recently was Vel'Koz, so we can't hate on Yasuo for doing what nearly every other champion of his generation does.

Let's just say, there are a lot bigger offenders to balance than Yasuo. His kit isn't perfect, he is still a squishy melee and heavily AA reliant. I hate him, don't get me wrong, but I hate some other champions a lot more (ahem* Fizz*) and I would rather face Yasuo than them (ahem* Nidalee*)

I agree that Yasuo needs to be toned down a bit, or needs a few more ways to counterplay him. I do not agree with the manner in which you are presenting your opinion. No one will take you seriously over the internet regardless of how you present yourself. So why make yourself look like a 10 year old child throwing a temper-tantrum?

I think that Yasuo is fine the way he his. His does have some clear strengths, but he also has some weaknesses that can easily be taken advantage of. He is a fairly weak laner and is very item dependent. He loses most matchups and lack of escapes make him easy to gank. In fights, he's easy to catch out and lock down. If played well, he can be a problem, but he does have counterplay.

If you think Yasuo is OP, you are quite delusional

"yasuo..... winrates now lower than, galio's..."

styrafoam IX im guessing

It appears you also received less than high marks in English class as you're incapable of using proper structure. Based on the disjointed nature of your statement I'm going to guess Sophomore English?

My opinion: yours' doesn't matter in this regard.

You are a moron

Dawg Yasuo is already hard as hell to play because of the nerfs riot gave him in response to his strength. Yasuo if anything is a weakened state of his former self and needs 0 nerfs. I wouldn't even mind a buff!

Here is my opinion:

Yasuo's signature feature resource is: WIND. Yes, I know, most of you thought double crit, and some included the 50% armor penetration, as his signature feature, but Yasuo actually got a unique resource as a champion that most people don't even notice or care about. This is a problem.

Yasuo's resource is Wind, and it creates a shield to allow him to be a melee fighter with high dps. Here is the problem: He is OP when you can actually utilize a decent shield reliably with double crit after 2 items, combined with 50% pen for like 15 seconds after his ult. This creates some crazy snowballing scenarios.

The solution here is simple to me. Return Yasuo to his signature feature, Wind. Make his kit revolve around Wind, and give it a buff. What will this mean? Well, this means you would need to remove that double crit, overload aspect of his passive. Think about it. Take away double crit, and make his shield worth something. His nerfs have consistently revolved around his nerfing his shield, the one thing he gets from his resource and the only wind resource in the game. It's the thing that makes him a stable champion to play as in laning, and it is the only part of his passive that won't encourage massive unstoppable snowballing.

Why nerf his shield over and over, with problems never resolved? Doing the same thing, over and over, and getting the same shitty results, is idiocy.

yasuo isn't op in my elo becuase people cant play him properly.

so until i tractably face enough players who are smart enough to activate their knockup on their dash instead of trying to hit me with an easily dodgable tornado. i don't have enough data to comment on his "OP"ness