Balancing out Yasuo

Kairaid··3 votes·356 views

At this point in the game I believe Yasuo needs to be balanced better. Giving him either stamina or mana would make it easier to manage a Yasuo on one side and harder on the other. While he uses no mana or stamina, he has a nearly unlimited combo potential. His learning curve is what makes him slightly difficult to master, but after a few runs it is not that difficult. There is almost no downside to using his abilities, unlike Garen who uses his abilities and if he's out he can be caught out easily. Yasuo's passive, dash, tornado, and no mana mixed with flash and many other combos make him an extremely unbalanced character who needs a rework, even if its as small as adding stamina or mana. I love Yasuo as a character, but in my opinion, needs a balancing act. Essentially, stamina would make him similar to his current build. However, if mana was introduced, players would almost be forced to change up the character's build to keep up with the mana demands put onto him. For example, with mana, it's nearly guaranteed that players would build essence reaver, to stack with his passive and keep up with mana, with stamina, players would most likely build similar, but would be more reluctant in using all abilities at once due to stamina costs and CDR. Yasuo item 3508

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ModWulf Helhammer4 votes

You realize using either would make him stronger?

Would people stop saying giving a resource to a resource-less champion would balance them? It's just ignorant. They will either be garbage because they can't do what they are designed to do, or they will have to have power increases or some form of buff to balance it out.

Desolas Arterius3 votes

Because people refuse to actually read/learn about the reasons why and how Riot balances champions :P I'm sure if they read the patch notes, champion discussion, and even the Wiki on how that champion works they'll find out that there's more to this than they know.

I mean shit, if it was this easy why wasn't Riot done it already? :P But usually people don't like being told they're wrong, or actually having to learn how to play against certain champions. /sigh

ModWulf Helhammer2 votes

It's clearly because those are ritos favorite champions, and they make them too strong on purpose /s

Desolas Arterius1 votes

Top kek. Had a great chuckle out of that ;)

EcchiOtakuTM2 votes

Yasuo's issue isn't his resource, his P, Q, W, or E.

It's his R.

People are so blinded by salt that they don't realize that his P is simple to deal with and for the crit he has to have crit.

For his Q, it's just a normal ability, his W offers a lot of room to play around, while his E is tied to enemies meaning if you calm down you know where he is heading.

His R is the real issue. Let me explain:

He gets a free LW from it. An item that's extremely niche and undesired until late game, you'll even get complaints for completing it before your other items(I have done this sorry adcs just why didn't you just buy executioner and continue -_-). Yasuo on the other hand gets it for free, an item which lacks mobility or defense, an item extremely niche and only worth picking up late game which allows a large roster to get value from their items until then. Yasuo gets this without any prior purchase of armor penetration.

If anyone doesn't want to see it's power which isn't invisible at all let me point it out:

Yasuo:

Lord domin: Enforces squishiness due to passive,

50 AD Grants bonus physical damage vs champions with more max HP than you, up to 15% at 500HP 45% bonus armor penetration

Now here's the real kicker to show you what yasuo's ulti does, which is FAR more unreasonable than his crit passive:

-insert any item here but for the purpose of this explanation we'll use frozen mallet-:

700 HP 30 AD 50% bonus armor penetration

Icy: Applies a 40% slow to unit on hit for 1.5 seconds.

Which one of these Lws would you rather build? Cause unlike crit you don't need LW items for the LW effect. and I sure as hell see a lot more strength from the new LW than the reworked LWs, not to mention that's just frozen mallet, we can make any 6th item yasuo would build turn into a better LW.

What I wish riot would do is remove the armor penetration completely for either around kit buffs or a different bonus effect, because armor penetration is 100% not what the answer is since the LW reworks.

Rivuo1 votes

Just delete yasuo.

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