Yasuo Pre-Season 6, Desperate need of a nerf somewhere.

Its Anubis·11/16/2015, 7:38:28 PM·18 votes·4,308 views

So with the Pre-Season underway, I have had the immense displeasure of facing off against a few Yasuo's as I have had teammates that refused to ban him. My displeasure is this; Before 15 minutes Yasuo has 100% crit chance with only a Static Shiv and a Cloak of Agility, and then there is the fun little thing about how he has 97% Armor Penetration after he ults if he has the maseries and a Last Whisper(or upgraded version). Now I understand that sometimes things slip through during the Pre-Season changes, but I seriously fail to see how somebody did not notice these very impactful issues. How do you deal with a Yasuo that has 100% crit and can basically deal True damage???? Anyone have any thoughts on this?

18 Comments

Sehlikah11/16/2015, 7:56:46 PM4 votes

Was Riot aware that crit-using melee carries would be outliers before they shipped the patch? Yes, they were.

In order to properly balance them, Riot needed to see how unbalanced they were and where they need power-gating. PBE can give vague ideas, but Live provides the best data. Another problem at the moment is that Warlord's Bloodlust is insanely overpowered, so it's hard to gauge how much Yasuo is the problem versus the mastery. True data for nerfing Yasuo, if such a nerf is necessary (though it will likely be needed), will only be collected after the hotfix.

Andrionar11/16/2015, 7:54:21 PM2 votes

Warlords bloodlust masterie will be nerfed to the ground in patch 5.23. It will no longer activates itself while criting minions, it gonna work on champions only. And that's the only nerf I know, I don't think that they gonna nerf yasuo or tryndamere specificaly

fugatotabued9111/16/2015, 7:53:31 PM1 votes

Yas ult and lw both grant BONUS ar pen

Andrionar11/16/2015, 8:26:24 PM1 votes

I think they don't realy care about "ashes", they care about more FOTM champions like yasuo. Also, in my opinion they didn't nerfed tryndamere, becouse it would be unfair looking from hes perspective yasuo would have to receive a nerf to.