The new yasuo changes are a nerf, not a buff

Choryon··2 votes·659 views

His shield rarely ever uses it's full duration early game.... It will now just have less up-time

I find this change upsetting, not so much that it is drastic as much it is a showmanship if riot's inability to understand how to balance their game. They clearly think this is a buff.

I request that only CertainlyT make changes to yasuo. I do not believe the rest of the staff at riot are qualified to changing yasuo. He is too complicated to play and buff/nerf.

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Phife2 votes

its burst mitigation for free... are you on crack?

ChargeItDownMid1 votes

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Choryon1 votes

it's on 4.8 patch notes Basically, they increased the shield value but decreased the rate it charges. As i said before, yasuo's shield rarely ever even used it's full charge . People just poke it off with an auto then intelligently use their spells after its short 1-second duration wears off. This will just increase the time when yasuo does not have a shield in lane.

ModAcademy Kayn1 votes

Let's see. Counter more damage for the exchange of playing safe between those period, or countering less damage while still having to play safe in between?

I choose the first.

Knight SoIaire 1 votes

the thing is that part of your exchange goes through the window

its playing safe for shorter periods, or playing safe for logner periods

because yasuos shield expires most of the time anyway its realy rarely broken in early game

so i must agree with op, its a nerf unless he gets the duration up

ModAcademy Kayn1 votes

What part of the engage goes out? If you see him dashing in you're going to hit him regardless of his shields capacity and if he's in combat (Serious combat not any of that dash in-q-dash out) it's not going to make any difference, OTHER then the initial burst an opponent would do to him.

Knight SoIaire 2 votes

If you see him dashing in you're going to hit him regardless of his shields capacity

you realy do it like that ? well then its a buff because you intentionaly play to make yasuo win

ModAcademy Kayn1 votes

You think I'm going to waste an Ability to break his shield? No, I'm going to AA before anything. It's going to punish players who are trigger happy, while still keeping the same weakness.

Knight SoIaire 1 votes

so why you contradict yourself ?

either you cant convey to me what you realy want to tell or you make stuff up and troll me

It's going to punish players who are trigger happy, while still keeping the same weakness.

its going to punish trigger happy guyus even more while making his weaknes even bigger

the problem that we go on about is that ... we lack trigger happy people, and its quite hard to be triggetr happy in early game anyway, so its preety fair to say that he doesnt gain anything from this while losing rather much

ModAcademy Kayn1 votes

When did I say I was going to use an ability to break his shield?

Edit: You changed your post after I posted. Just to make sure I get where you are going, please clarify Yasou's weakness.

Choryon1 votes

sigh

Choryon1 votes

The ironic thing is that this actually makes yasuo stronger against people who don't trade with yasuo properly. For people who dont poke down his shield before attacking this will actually be a buff. For any players higher than bronze (im going to even include silver in this) a reasonable person will just poke the shield down before actually initiating a trade.

Knight SoIaire 2 votes

turned out that the guy who called this a buff actualy fights yasuo like that

Choryon1 votes

I think it's really interesting to see the flaw in these boards. This is obvious nerf to anyone who plays yasuo, but it isn't to anyone who does not. So you are going to see non-yasuo players respond unintelligently and upvote/downvote. Thus, it impossible to have any real intelligent discussion about a generally disliked champion on these boards.

Even reddit is more intelligent. In fact, this very topic is on the front page now!

http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/3477cn/the_58_yasuo_changes_arent_a_buff_theyre_actually/

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