Don't go yasuo top PLEASE

Yasuo top has the highest win rate for yasuo

With the Mage update, mages are in a much better spot than they used to, making Yasuo mid countered really easily.

You probably wrote this fresh out of a game where you had a Yasuo on your team who went top and fed, but please don't turn your 1-time recent experiences as fact and instead look up winrates and other information you would need to know before blatantly telling people to not go Yasuo top with the reason "he doesnt have true damage or combos". There's plenty of champions who go top who don't really have any combos or true damage, like Maokai. Yasuo E>Q is a combo, and a very good one at that. His E>Q>Flash>R is also a combo - a very good one. His Q>E is a combo, etc.. Also, keep in mind he has 50% armor pen after he's ulted for quite a long time. Maokai E>W>Q (i think?) is a combo, and the most profitable of his. His 3 abilities (outside of ult) can be used in a variety of combinations, much like Yasuo. They both don't have true damage, yet still keep a stable foothold in Top Lane.

The idea is that if you enjoy playing something, you're entitled to be allowed to play it. I've seen many great Yasuo's who can deal with disadvantageous match-ups by knowing their champion extensively. Consider Arkadata or even N3AC3Y, where they one-trick Yasuo into whatever match-up comes their way .. how did they get good at their champ without practicing it?

They rarely seem to contribute to my team comps in this role so seconded. You may like it but I bet 4 other people in the game don't.

But yasuo top is played more than yasuo mid sooooo...

blind picking top lane yasuo is a bad idea. counterpicking with him isn't a bad idea.

Um hello? Yasuo can beat riven ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q5M5sfZRZo

Funnily enough, Fiora/Irelia/Riven are my 3 top laners.

I never lost against a yasuo top and thats saying something tbh

Funny how both riven and irelia actually aren't too terrible of matchups for yasuo. The only really bad one of the 3 is Fiora, but she is a terror to nearly any melee champion

mage update told him to go top and stay there.

You mention three champs and yet none of those are terrible matchups for a strong yas player. Irelia literally can't ever touch a good yas, Riven can only farm in what becomes a farm lane, Fiora has to riposte the knock up that will result in an ult and NONE of the other whirlwinds or she ends up dead...

And yet you never mention his hardest counter: who basically auto wins the lane post bamis cinder or codex. Particularly bamis cinder = free lane. (Pretty much true for any melee champ in a yasuo lane matchup)

I would recommend you not give players advice on what NOT to play when you don't even understand the matchups.