Why I dislike Yasuo

Yasuo is not the strongest champ, his winrate and performance are average, but he's the champ I hate to play against the most. Even when I'm a melee champ without projectiles (but most when I'm a mage with projectile skillshots of course).

The reason is that you can't outplay Yasuo. Yasuo himself is the playmaker. He outplays you, or he fails to outplay you. A perfect Yasuo player wins EVERY matchup, even against other players who play perfectly. He can dodge every skillshot, get in first and last hit consistently in a skirmish, block important projectiles and chooses when to fight and when not.

I know most people don't have issues against Yasuo. But that's because most players aren't in the skill brackets where they actually meet good Yasuo players. As said before, Yasuo outplays or fails to outplay. If he fails to outplay, he's total garbage. If he succeeds to outplay consistently, he'll win.

I'm not saying there's no counterplay. His tornado is a skillshot that can be dodged, and it's important to do so in lane. However, the problem is that outplaying this isn't rewarding enough. First of all, he can hold onto his tornado for 10 seconds. That means 10 seconds not getting into his dash range. If you do, he'll just dash on you and Q around him to auto hit. And that's problem 2. When he uses his Q during the dash, there's not way to dodge it. The only part of his kit that allows counterplay, has a trick to prevent any counterplay. All you need to do is wait for the next minion wave to arrive and E E E E Q R. (Yes, I'm making it sound simpler than it is. It requires quite some micro skills to succeed at this consistently.)

Tl;dr playing against Yasuo feels like you are just an NPC for the Yasuo player to beat or fail against. If you beat him, it's because Yasuo was not good enough to beat you. Not because you were good enough to beat him. That's how it feels.