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An open letter from a Yasuo main

Bultz··28 votes·1,899 views

(If this can get at least 100 dislikes my day will have been made)

In all honesty, I am so happy Yasuo is so hated right now. I'm so happy all of you struggle against him so hard. I'm ecstatic about him being played nearly every game by skill less people because they found a broken build on him.

That's what you get for screwing Yasuo mains over. I'm so extremely happy that everyone hates him. It's better then winning money.

Since the start of season 5 Yasuo has been taking your shit. I practiced very hard to play with Yasuo and before season 5 I was playing really well. With all the buffs to champions and nerfs to Items, season 5 was a nightmare to Yasuo mains. I mean who did you think was going to be affected by the nerfs to static shiv and infinity edge? Veigar maybe? No not that little piece of shit.

You nerfed Yasuo's core build, buffed adc and tanks (juggernauts) and nerfed everything about Yasuo in hopes of deflating the adc buff. Who was hit by this? Really who? I went from playing against anyone and winning on pure skill, to being rolfstomped by point and click champions.

I mean look at Hope broken burst champions are, a good Brand player can kill 5 people easy. He stands far away and destroys with the op power he has and they even buffed him super hard with the Mage update.

I mean Yasuo is done in easily by a little cc. Easily. Like what 90% of champions have cc? And what the most tenacity in game is 30% going up to 40 with masteries? You have nothing to counter it and champions like Yasuo who have to chase and be close,get stunned or rooted or anything and insta die. I mean go ahead et stunned by Brand and see what getting kitted really feels like even though your ahead and he's 0/5.

You removed zephyr, nerfed ss, and nerfed cleanse. On top of all that being a late game champion, Yasuo is supposed to own late game. You have 20-30 minutes, if you deny him farm and kills, to win. But when he is build and fed he is supposed to be rock you that's that. But like Nasus, he just starts to fall off late game because of stuns and not being able to directly engage in team fights having to wait for a tank or someone to go in.

So am I happy he is terrorizing you all now? Extermly.

65 Comments

Troll for Trump11 votes

Yasuo was always cancerous. SAme with Fizz. Fizz is kinda in the same spot Yas was in before. Both still cancerous af.

GULAG 4 U2 votes

He's only cancer if you can't see his weaknesses.

Troll for Trump4 votes

He's still cancer:

Weak early phase, you can harass him. His E actually has a fair cooldown early game. It's his only reliable farm tool. Tying in mobility/safety and a farm tool in a single ability has its own weaknesses, and you can punish him for using it. But a sane fizz will retreat after using it. obviously itemization, though tank fizz is harder to itemize against.

Still cancer.

When laning vs Fizz, you don't decide the pace. He does.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

Yasuo. Not fizz.

Troll for Trump3 votes

Really unclear.

Yasuo you harass when his windwall and shield are down, attack to get rid of shield, avoid fighting near minions.

Yas controls the lane even worse than Fizz does.

Oakleaf Ranger1 votes

LoL right from the beggining fish boy is forced to dance to my tune. He wants farm? He gonna eat damage or use the pole which has a high CD and mana costs. His level 6 means jack shit when he is down half my farm and low mana and health. He ain't the assassin, I am.

Troll for Trump2 votes

Not everyone is Vlad and Malz.

Thing is, you need strong harass, and sustainability/evasion. Most champs don't have that.

Compare laning vs Fizz/Yasuo with laning vs Talon. Significant difference. There early games should be like Talon's but it's not.

Oakleaf Ranger1 votes

Have you played Talon? There is a reason he is one of main updates for the assassins. He currently in a awful position. That guys mana costs are ridiculous, he is highly gated by his mana that everyone ends poking him to death or out of lane. I beat Yasuo and Fizz with multiple champions. Since they either scale much faster than Yasuo/Fizz or are able to take advantage of their weak early game.

You want a list well here you go, these are just the ones I know that beat them. There are probably more but these are the ones I'm sure of. There is a reason Yasuo and Fizz rarely do well in high elo where everyone can play to the strengths of their champion very well and the weakness of the opponent.

Ahri Anivia Annie Azir Brand Cassiopeia Chogath Diana Gangplank Jayce Kennen Lux Ryze Swain Syndra Taliyah Veigar Velkoz Viktor Zed Zilean Zyra Orianna

Troll for Trump2 votes

I mainly play Talon for mid lane. He's not weak.

Yasuo and Fizz do fine in high elo, as fine as anyone else.

None of those "for sure" beat them. It's up to the people playing the game.

Oakleaf Ranger1 votes

well no shit there aint no "guarantees" but damn are the match ups highly favorable for those. Yah if the enemy just lets you free farm Talon may not seem weak but I poke the fuck out of his ass. Goes OOM with like just 3-4 use of W.

Troll for Trump2 votes

The matchups aren't highly favorable. You don't need freefarm as Talon. You just need to level up. Same thing with Fizz. You don't grab every dang minion, most of the time you barely scrape by half of the wave. He doesn't go OOM unless the Talon is horrible and started with longsword and started spamming his W.

Oakleaf Ranger2 votes

well levels don't mean shit if you cant even use the abilities or win the all in. Like what makes Fizz, Talon, and to a lesser extent Yasuo so bad is from level 1 your the enemy laner's bitch. IDK about those who lose without jg intervention but I'm freezing, contesting every minion, and zoning which basically means I systematically shut them down because they are that weak early on.

Troll for Trump1 votes

Yeah exactly. That's why they get no CS early on. If they go too deep trying to get cs, than they're being stupid. Around lvl 2/3, they take control.

You're not gonna freeze the lane. Not on your side, but on their side.

Oakleaf Ranger1 votes

I mean I'm freezing from level 1 though just last hitting and poking. If it starts freezing to close to them I just shove to reset it again. To keep teaching them pain.

Troll for Trump1 votes

Yeah but you can't really freeze it towards your side. Basically, it's either neutral, or you're overextending, because they're not going to take anything that's remotely risky to cs.

Like watch higher elos lane as assassins vs ranged champs. Basically impossible to freeze the lane. Most spells are AoE,too, and that pushes the lane.

Oakleaf Ranger1 votes

Idk I have gotten pretty good at wave control. I think something I should say though is that can't contest their cs all the time but I can sure as hell do it for most of it. Plus waves eventually start pushing back even on their side so I can freeze extremely close to my tower if I chose to wait for that.

Vistha Kai2 votes

You are so narrow minded if you put Yasuo and Fizz in the same category.

What's next? Saying Akali and Yasuo are the same?

Troll for Trump2 votes

They both have toxic kits. That's about the only similarity they have.

Veltox9 votes

Never complained about him even when i was playing projectile based champions. Why?because i'm not dumb enough to blow all my kit into his windwall.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

Same. The only time where I have problems playing Against yasuo is when I play lane Yi vs him. That's it.

CeexSett2 votes

We tend to meet in Yasuo/tank threads hum?

GULAG 4 U1 votes

I'd add you, but I'm in the shithole called NA :^}

CeexSett2 votes

I'd add you, but I'm in this excuse of a "server" called EUW.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

At least you don't have first time irelias getting 20 cs at 8 minutes and proceed to Blame the jungler

CeexSett3 votes

At least you don't have spanish players.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

Huehuehue mordekaiser es numero uno

Ps I understand a bit of Spanish so I'd be fine :p

CeexSett2 votes

The problem isn't understanding, I am portugues so understanding them is easy peasy.

It's just the players themselves, the jajajajajajajja, the "tu madre es chula puta mierda" and things like that. ^^

GULAG 4 U1 votes

Same shit gets said when people on the Na server speak French (Canadians exist!)

CeexSett2 votes

Aren't Canadians super nice? Or is the meme busted?

GULAG 4 U1 votes

They're nice, but the people that speak French Canadian usually use the French to say go fuck your mother so yeah.

CeexSett2 votes

Now imagine that but in Spanish, French, German, Italian, sometimes Greek or Swedish...

We get quite a mix of languages. I think portuguese people are actually the best at not flaming in their own language.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

It's true that the euw server has a lot of languages so yeah.

Chimp Joker5 votes

Terrified? Some players maybe. Me? Not in the slightest. With the reemergence of the Yasuo Bruiser build, it became thankfully challenging to fight against him. Against a decent Yasuo player, I will have a lot of fun trying to out juke him and curb stomp him as much as possible. To be honest, if I had to choose between playing against a veteran Yasuo player and a veteran Ekko player, I would still choose Yasuo. Eventually Riot will nerf him or some items, but until that happens, I will gladly accept the challenge.

Shaponja4 votes

Its always the same: Only the people who play cancer champs (ofc including yasuo) think he is balanced, underpowered, hes hard, struggles hard in every season(also in laning phase, kappa!)...

Durfain4 votes

That's okay, we'll all be happy when he gets nerfed into the ground by Riot because of his 57% win rate :^)

balbraaksel4 votes

During laning phase: Q incoming wave, Q again, dash through the wave and Q to the enemy laner. And repeat that all the time. That's all you need to know to play Yasuo and doesn't have much counterplay to it.

Now to get to my point, I don't really get this attitude of you, Yasuo isn't that hard to play decently and I see you've only gotten to Silver so it's not likely you mastered him on such a high level either.

Only Play Darius3 votes

As someone who plays mostly Yasuo and Darius I don't really see the trouble in playing against him

Bultz2 votes

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As someone who plays mostly Yasuo and Darius I don't really see the trouble in playing against him

There isn't any, just whiny noobs who want to try to nerf him without reason.

Shaponja10 votes

You are literaly acting as the "whiny noob" you are talking about.

Athenes Lulu3 votes

Or look at the brighter side. People complain about people like you playing Yasuo because you're actually "better" than they are, while they really should just learn to get better instead of bitching and whining.

On all honesty, Yasuo isn't even that hard to deal with, and anyone who can zone and/or has point-and-click CC can stop him super easily as long as they know when Yasuo will use that windwall. No, I'd take a Yasuo over most mages any day (looking at you, Veigar and Anivia).

Though of course certain playerbases are ruined by the "bad players", but even so, almost every champion playerbase has a group of whiny people, people here just like to pick on Yasuo/Riven/Vayne/Fizz/etc mainly because they refuse to work around.

Keep calm, and keep playing what you love. Who cares about what they think, especially if no one is really doing anything against you?

######"Bruiser Yasuo" though is another thing and that it already doesn't sound great on paper, but MOST of the whiny complaints come from Yasuo alone, bruiser build or not.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

I think you should rename yourself to actually smart lulu because you understand shit unlike the silver fuckers in my Elo thinking yasuo is some devil cancer shit and that aatrox is op.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

Fun fact, "Genius Lulu" was actually one of my choices before I had the current name change.

Though because I love tilting others by being good at playing what I love and that I want to do matching names with another friend while sounding fitting at once, cancerous is good enough.

TyrekGoldenspear2 votes

Excuse me, not all silvers are idiots.

Also I laughed so hard when you mentioned someone said Aatrox was OP.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

I know. I'm also silver too. And yeah I'm not kidding, I had an Olaf saying he was OP.

Calabok3 votes

I ban Yasuo ever game if i can. And have Fizz banned too if i can convince the rest of the team. Maybe to you he isnt OP but i assure you, that fool is really annoying sliding here and there an shit like that and yelling HASUGOGU AHUOHA and YAMATAI

Melledoneus3 votes

Upvote the scum so his dream will never be accomplished!

MWUAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!

GULAG 4 U2 votes

Honestly what is the difference between calling yasuo mains scum and [insert race/religious group of people] scum different? It's still a form of racism or bigotry. Enough with the stereotypes, not all riven mains are toxic and not all yasuo mains are toxic too.

Melledoneus1 votes

I'll give you a few more minutes to figure it out.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

Ps. It's bullshit in both cases. That's the answer.

OxyPoro2 votes

Sigh... this thread, Yasuo is busted as fuck right now because of a bug and this is the time u use to b*tch even though he was 50%+ winrate before?

SMH

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