Yasuo's ultimate armour pen nerf won't truly do anything...

Asudurga·Sep 8, 2016·4 votes·431 views

Note: Oh boy, here come downvotes galore because I'm not a famous board person or because butthurt Yasuo mains are coming like a hoard of rage zombies from 28 Days.

...not so long as that double crit chance passive is still there, because all he could do is replace one item with to go with his .

So his bruiser build is still going to be there but now it's gonna be . So he could get the benefit of full armour pen while being virtually unkillable from stupid tankiness and sustain.

I believe I saw a post regarding Ekko where someone stated "you can't trim the edges of a tumour". This is the same case with Yasuo, you need to have a sit down and talk with your game designers, Riot. Do it and fix this unbalanced mess because Yasuo is still going to be in a permabanned state with his win rate impossibly high.

14 Comments

Vistha KaiSep 8, 20166 votes

Unlike Ekko, Yasuo doesn't have 3 different, spammable kinds of CC and the build you provided is actually much squishier than what he was building before.

NahuiSep 8, 20161 votes

I was unaware Ekko had 3 forms of spammable cc

FlahertySep 8, 20165 votes

His slow from 3 autos, slow from Q, stun with W

NahuiSep 8, 20161 votes

the W is definitely not spammable nor is it easy at all to land. In fact, it's designed not to really be able to land. It requires mistakes mostly to become a stun. Extremely telegraphed in many ways.

The Q is a spammable slow, yes. Not super spammable like an Ashe slow or a Nasus/Nunu slow, but it's got a smaller cooldown. And his passive is eh. I wouldn't say spammable. It takes 3 hits to activate, has a 5 second grace period once activated where it can't be activated again. It's also typically applied with the Q slow, so not usually separately slowing them for the total combined time of the spells.

The wording is a bit inflammatory and is using a technique that over-demonizes a champion by exaggerating the reality of their kit.

Otherwise, Yasuo with his Frozen mallet has two kinds of spammable CC, one that never ever ends unlike Ekko who has cooldowns on everything with his current build.

Vistha KaiSep 9, 20161 votes

His W also has a slow on it for the full duration.

Akali is SO HOTSep 8, 20164 votes

If he wants to go Bruiser Yasuo but still wants the crit he'll either have to go PD into IE which gimps his early game as a Bruiser or go PD into Tank items and then eventually get IE which won't happen until much later in the game. Plus of the base stat nerfs and the bugfix this is most definitely a nerf to Bruiser Yasuo lol

CerealBoxOfDoomSep 8, 20163 votes

why didn't you post a link to the actual nerf you typed all that about.

How do grown people not know to post the conventional reference. Don't they teach you this in school?

FlahertySep 8, 20162 votes

He probably hasn't reached that part of grade school yet

JbelsSep 8, 20162 votes

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why didn't you post a link to the actual nerf you typed all that about.

How do grown people not know to post the conventional reference. Don't they teach you this in school?

My professor will literally have my class's ass if we don't have every fact referenced in our research papers >_>

HyperiönSep 8, 20161 votes

Why would they need to link it if its in the patch notes. Just go get off your lazy but and click 3 times...

CerealBoxOfDoomSep 8, 20162 votes

I'm not lazy, not only did I click I stopped to remind someone to act like an adult.

You should praise my hard work.

Also they need to link it because since, being an adult isn't enough for you I'll put it this way, it is a common tactic of unethical people to avoid putting sources to maximize the time it takes to come to one's own conclusion and to minimize the odds that one will actually look up the information.

For example a common use of such a tactic is to mention how politician X raised the national debt by n amount and is therefore a bad person. I know you're either not interested in spending forever figuring out if that conclusion is really practical and I know you're probably not brave enough to question whether or not raising the national debt is actually an objectively bad thing, even if you look it up you probably wont have any misleading details I've given you in mind and probably wont want to read any bullshit posted over again. The end result is that by the time you have any real argument against 4 others have already begun the circlejerk.

Not putting your references is unprofessional and in some cases unethical. Especially if you are going to criticize what people did or said and not even mention where the information can be found.

Riddle me this, why is it he has time to make bad zombie jokes about yasuo mains but no time to click 3 times and post a damn link? This is the adult thing to do when you are about to sit on your ass and tell the F2P game designers how much your butt hurts

oSEXYPLATYPUSoSep 8, 20162 votes

however an item like item 3143 would be stronger vs him now.

he is still broken

Sona x RubickSep 8, 20162 votes

"yasuo is going to take 2 more squishy items while having no mr/lvl, it won't change anything!"

SiytherSep 8, 20161 votes

i agree as long as he has double crit passive this nerf does next to nothing he already builds phantom dancer so thats auto 60% crit even if he doesnt build another crit item more often than not he will still crit u . I ve been saying for a while if they want to make him less broken they should just drop the double crit everything else can stay the same. He wouldnt be broken he still would have the flow as a passive. He would just have to build crit items to one shot unstead of build one. The problem isnt that he is building tank but that he does it while still having hyper carry damage