The Legendary Topic: Which one takes more skill? Zed or Yasuo?

ŠupremeIzzy·9/1/2017, 10:53:03 PM·2 votes·693 views

Look here as a Zed and Yasuo player I find that Yasuo is a bit easier to play. His E gives him quick engage and disengage in battle and in lanning phase. His Q (Hurricane) and His normal Q combined with his E adds decent poke to peel the enemy and adding the Ult just adds more damage. On the other hand I find that Zed you have to plan in advance where are you going to put your shadows to outmaneuver the enemy. And yes you can be a basic zed and just W,E,Q every chance you get but it has quite a cooldown early game while as yasuo he will continue spiraling everywhere and poking not being withheld by the bounds of consuming energy/mana and on top of that he could windwall which could completely turn the tides of a fight.

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7 Comments

Shahamut9/1/2017, 10:58:50 PM5 votes

It's not truly A fair comparison: Yasuo is an auto attack reliant skirmisher and Zed is a combo caster assassin.

That being said, if I had to choose one, I'd say Zed. But their playstyle and what not are different enough that I wouldn't compare them, since the types of skill requirements are different.

I Love Thresh9/1/2017, 10:55:05 PM2 votes

Zed hands down.

Zed genius9/1/2017, 10:56:41 PM1 votes

Mechanically speaking, Zed is easier but in how to play the game, when to roam, how to flank the enemy team, find a way in to assassinate someone and get out Zed is harder to play. Yasuo's laning phase is easier imo, but maybe that's just because i have had more practice on him. Those two champions though are completely different and not easily comparable. Yasuo is a melee ad carry who can follow up engages from his team and zed is a mobile assassin that needs to find his own way into a teamfight.

Sir Fuzzi9/1/2017, 11:03:22 PM1 votes

I think Yasuo's mechanically more difficult, but Zed is going to be tougher to play because misplays can put him out of position really bad. He's also got more things to worry about like Reaping the high impact targets. He also manages the shadows which can be used to pull off some very powerful plays in the right hands.

Yasuo worries about his Flow and how he can use it in-battle (if he can), as well as minding team knockups and his own and where his ult will put him (because he can't just bounce back or away from it). He's pretty shoehorned into crit and so he has a phase in the game where he's going to need to be more careful. Zed also gets poke and a slow, Yasuo has to combo into his one CC (although it's also quite potent). Both are off mana, so spamming isn't really offensive to them.

So Yasuo's got a lot more going on mechanically I think, it's just that Zed probably has a higher skill ceiling due to his manipulation of movement and zones, as well as having the capacities of a mage (CC and damage from far out of engagement range).