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AP Yasuo?!?!??!?!

xredstarriddlax·8/29/2014, 1:50:08 AM·1 votes·1,561 views

I got this idea one day and looked further into it, Yasuo's E, sweeping blade, has a 60% ap scaling on it thats pretty good. So I created a custom game and tried it on bots. At it's best the dashes were doing around 650 magic damage to it's target(without runes). The only limitation to your damage is the cd on your target. But I still found a way for this to be useful:

  1. dash through 2 unimportant targets( minions,jg creeps, or champs other than your primary target) this will increase your next dash's base damage by 50%

  2. hit them with D.F.G to boost magic damage dealt

  3. Dash through an enemy carry and follow with a Q and a few autos = death

This can be much tougher when dealing with tanks as you can only dash through enemies once per 6 seconds at the highest rank so your damage is not very sustained through out the fight. But in a teamfight you can easily put around 600 damage on each member of the enemy team as the fight begins.

The build I used consisted of: item 3128 item 3100 item 3089 item 3020 item 3116 item 3135 though lichbane gives mana meaning that using it is wasting stats so if you want you can replace lichbane with: item 3023 I have yet to try this in a match with real opponents but I'd love to hear what you think about AP Yas

7 Comments

xWildflower8/29/2014, 1:56:55 AM1 votes

Interesting, but why would you play AP Yasuo instead of AD Yasuo? AD has much, much better sustained damage and is able to make use of the ultimate's armor penetration and can stack Q faster.

67chrome8/29/2014, 2:39:11 AM1 votes

though lichbane gives mana meaning that using it is wasting stats

Increasing your 0.6 burst by 0.5 is totally worth the ~50 gold you waste on mana (Mana is increadibly cheap). A decent number of manaless or APless champions still grab Trinity Force.

Also - Lich Bane is pretty much mandatory on any champion with 2 or less AP skills. It should be the first major item 100% of the time on derp AP builds, because it's often 100% responsible for making them work, and work considerably better than they really should.

Especially on a champion with no cooldowns on 2 skills like Yasou, you should be able to proc it every 1.5 seconds - which is a fairly considerable addition to his burst.

I got this idea one day and looked further into it, Yasuo's E, sweeping blade, has a 60% ap scaling on it thats pretty good

As for this:

Only 8 champions in LoL actually don't power at least 1 of their abilities with ability power.

And 0.6 is pretty average.

Pretty good is more like 0.8~1.0 IMO.

TBakes9/20/2015, 3:25:23 PM1 votes

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