So Riot trashed another champion (Yasuo) because of #Esports

Report Team GG·Nov 17, 2014·4 votes·1,504 views

Another case of Riot ruining a champion for 99.9999% of the population so a few players making 100k+ a year dont have to deal with them... Yasuo has never broken 50% win rate. Pro players even acknowledge Yasuo as a situational pick. When the best players in the world can't play a champion like Yasuo so that he's overpowered, then why is he getting nerfed? When Yasuo is only a situational pick for 0.0000001% of the population and you nerf him, somethings wrong

Last I heard Riot was claiming over 30million players.

29,999,900 of those players aren't pro players.

You ruined Yasuo so a few players in their Ivory gaming houses don't have to deal with him anymore. And this isn't the first time you've done it Rito. Remember when you nerfed Ashe because of #esports?

You nerfed a champion that had been underperforming at all elos and skill ranges. Yet a fraction of a percent of the population was the only people you helped.

9 Comments

MarthianNov 17, 20145 votes

Yasuo wasn't just overpowered in esports. He was also extremely strong in lower elos as well.

Win Rates are not indicative of a champion's strengths (Leblanc is a notable example before nerfs. Bad players affect the win rate as much as good players.)

Report Team GGNov 25, 20141 votes

Yasuo wasn't just overpowered in esports. He was also extremely strong in lower elos as well.

Win Rates are not indicative of a champion's strengths (Leblanc is a notable example before nerfs. Bad players affect the win rate as much as good players.)

He wasn't overpowered in esports. period.

Pros even stated he was a situational pick.

He wasn't strong in lower elo's.

Winning = goal of LoL. Best tool = champions with high win rates.

How are you going to tell me that Yasuo is STRONG when he sucks at doing the only thing that matters in League (winning).

LeBlanc was only strong in pro play. LB was not good in lower elos (due to an inability to capitalize on her assassinations) and her win rate reflected it.

Rubric18Jun 2, 20181 votes

He has never been good in Esports, in lower Elo's nobody can even play him you're right

Rustling BushNov 17, 20142 votes

esports is the reason why champions get nerfed? wait i thought this circle jerk was the other around. MAKE UP YOUR MINDS PEOPLE

DunderflumpNov 17, 20142 votes

Fun fact: the general playerbase being unable to play a champion does not make that champion weak.

Bonus fun fact: Winrate doesn't mean anything.

Report Team GGNov 25, 20141 votes

Fun fact: the general playerbase being unable to play a champion does not make that champion weak.

Bonus fun fact: Winrate doesn't mean anything.

fun fact retard, the general playerbase being unable to play a champion means 99.99% of the population is unable to play a champion. for all practical purposes, they are weak.

unless you're some idiot more concerned with some unattainable theory compared to actual reality and statistical data. you're the impractical retard who tries to build a house with triangles because "theoretically" triangles are stronger yet in the end you live in a fukking triangular house and you have no living space at all.

bonus fun fact: win rate means pretty much everything.

goal of LoL: win games. best way to measure a champs ability to win games: win rate.

of course the data set could be further reduced to a certain rating (ex. diamond+), games played with champion (ex. 20+), items purchased (ex. DFG on Kat) and more. but they are still derived from win rate.

"toxicity" "snowball potential" and "binary behaviour" are also factors of course. but acting like win rate isn't the best statistical measure is just idiotic. practicality is the only thing that matters. theory without practice is nothing. it's sad that idiots like you go on the internet yet don't even have any logical capabilities. focusing on the unattainable 0.001% is like turning everyone's food into feces for the 0.001% who enjoy eating shyt.

ScurvyNaveNov 17, 20141 votes

Upvoted and totally agree with OP.

Leblancs BoobNov 25, 20141 votes

Yasuo's kit is extremely problematic. He's as overloaded as they come. If he were allowed to be strong, he would need something taken away from his kit. He just has too much