Tell you what. I'll play nothing, but ranked for a week, and since I gain upwards of 30lp per win, maybe then you can look at my rank. I don't play much ranked because the toxic assholes in bronze, who apparently inhabit OCE as well, are rampant within the division. There's 4 types of people in bronze. The people with a massively unstable internet connection that result in continuous disconnections and 4v5 games for their teams. The people who jumped straight into ranked without even having a proper page of t3 runes. The people who rage endlessly at their team for their own mistakes, blaming everything that happens in the game on someone else. And finally the people who the "soft reset" dumped them out of silver and into bronze to deal with the other 3 groups of people, which they got tired of doing and stopped playing ranked all together.
I didn't say there's no counter play to Ahri, the counter play to Ahri is also simple, but all it does is make her push you into tower unless you have enough waveclear to deal with the fact that she heals all of the harass you give her back simply by pushing the wave.
You know how else you AA his shield off? Not brainlessly walking up the center of the lane, there are other parts of the lane to stand in that aren't right on top of your minions. If you can't understand that, you haven't learned a thing in your three years of playing. It's also pretty simple to understand when you can move forward, like idk, not when his tornado is up. The counter play to Yasuo is so brain dead obvious that anyone who doesn't get it shouldn't step outside of bot matches. No counter play to a passive shield lmfao, if that were true the shield would be constant, never deteriorate, never break, and never need to charge up.
I didn't mention the ganking counter because that's not consistent, it relies on another person, the entire focus of my argument is consistent, always true counterplay, which you would understand if you actually had some reading comprehension.
You're right in that win rates aren't determined exclusively by who does better in lane, however, there is something to be said when a champions sits above 52% against each champion match up. There might just be a common denominator involved in that equation, but what do I know I'm a lower rank than you.
It's just weird that you sit here and tell me he's super safe in lane through his dashes, then tell me he's super vulnerable to everything. Please pick a side, arguing both sides is a waste of time for us both. In fact I'm realizing this entire argument is a waste of time in the first place, you're very stuck in the rank means everything, and clearly it's impossible that a lower rank can have any understanding of the game at all mentality. I was going to go into this big thing about how your ranked MMR is in the toilet and is equivalent to my MMR in normals, but just knowing you're dropping out of the rank with which your arguments to heavily hinge on, while I'm climbing is enough satisfaction for me, and I'll leave you with this last tidbit.
I'm just curious, why do you think it is that pro teams employ coaches and analysts that are lower ranks than their players? Clearly the players can't have anything of value to gain from these people are they're higher ranked so they must know much better than each of these people, just seems like a waste of money when you look at it with that approach, but that's just me.
I'm actually done replying to this now, because it's just a waste of time to argue a point with people like you in this game. So you have a good one.