Idea for Yasuo's Passive Shield & Windwall

48983507DEL1··1 votes·550 views

Why not combine them into the same ability? Actually the idea is a little more complicated than that so here's my 2 cents:

Part 1: Yasuo's Shield Passive is moved to his W. However, instead of statically sitting there like a worse version of Malzahar's Passive, it behaves more like Night's Veil: forming a defensive barrier when Yasuo activates it.

Part 2: Windwall no longer has a cooldown. Instead, the ability only becomes available whenever his Flow bar is completely filled. Casting W in a certain direction will activate Windwall, while self casting W will activate his Shield. He can only use one of the two whenever he gets 100% Flow, however.

This is just a fancy little idea I had a little while back.

It makes a bit of logical sense, as building up his Wind power would also affect his Windwall.

It also goes along with Riot's decision to make cooldown reduction a completely worthless stat on Yasuo.

Finally, it removes a bit of frustration from playing against Yasuo, as now you can actually tell when he has his game-changing basic ability available.

I don't play a whole lot of Yasuo, so any Yasuo mains feel free to pick this apart. Just wanted to get it out onto the boards as a legitimate idea that I thought was pretty cool. Thanks for reading!

EDITED FOR FOR BETTER WORDING

5 Comments

Tormentula2 votes

I like this change actually, leave his passive as the crit chance, but if you give his W his passive you can change the numbers for the rate in which he can use his wall and shield.

Perhaps instead of giving the shield an edge of night effect, make it one or the other when his flow meter is up (block with wall, or get the shield). This would make yasuo have to take the risk decision of walling for ranged abilities or shield vs. melee.

48983507DEL11 votes

That's essentially what I was going for. I guess my wording is just a bit confusing.

lumanachi1 votes

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48983507DEL11 votes

I see what you mean. Essentially this post was just to come up with an idea, but I didn't include any numbers because I'm not a Yasuo main and wouldn't know how to perfectly tune him.

Of course if this change was implemented there would have to be changes to the rest of his stats, such as actually giving him scaling MR.

To address your comment, I'd probably assume that if Riot actually made this change, they would immediately increase the amount of Flow it takes to fully stack the bar.

48983507DEL11 votes

So just to clarify, this wouldn't be the only changes that would be applied if somehow this idea was implemented. He'd definitely need buffs and nerfs around the rest of his kit to compensate.

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