You know why yasuo gets banned?

To come into lane with 2 crit items he must be like 6/0 or smth. Statikk + IE requires like 6000 gold. If you count Statikk + cloak, then he wont have decent damage with crit only.

Nope.

I totally agree with you, but people dont like Yasuo in 2017 not because he's op, but because they see him in every game and he's getting annoying to face every time. But yeah, imo, he's not worth calling overpowered.

Not to mention that counterpicking != counterplaying is flat out wrong. Do you know the difference between playing against a Riven the playing against a Galio as Malphite is? Whether or not it's them or you who's getting completely tossed out of lane, and Riven isn't even that punished by Malphite.

I mean I guess it's not much of a surprise that this mentality has been so ingrained into people's heads when they're so busy bainning Yasuo instead of, y'know, the champions that will actually tear their assholes asunder without some heavy skill advantage on their half. Riot doesn't want to make counterpicking in League as potent as it is in DOTA, sure, but that still leaves plenty of room for effective counterpicks and strong match ups.

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I really hate to be the unpopular opinion guy, but if you're still losing to Yasuo in 2017, you're either terrible at this game or chose an unfavorable matchup. I honestly haven't lost lane to a Yasuo in a long time; I'm not pumping my chest touting my skills either, but it's simply a matter of playing smart and knowing what Yasuo is going to do. Malz and Morde skill counter the ever living shit out of Yasuo.

"But counterpicking is not counterplaying", you can literally beat Yasuo with /almost/ anyone provided you're smarter than your opponent. 70+% of the playerbase is Bronze or Silver and I guess if they can't just face tank 1v1 an opponent it means that said opponent is overpowered.

I think the biggest problem with this statement is that it's almost never the laner that faces Yasuo that bans them in Bronze/Silver - it's the other lanes that don't want to have to deal with the chance that their solo laner doesn't know how to play the matchup.

Thus, it's not that we don't know how to play the matchup, it's more that we don't want to have to deal with a Yasuo that's fed late-game.

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The entire game is built around stat-checking though? Lmao

exactly, riot doesn't want to admit that, and allow other champions to stat check ...

3 kills by accident? Do you understand what that is? At high elo he might get max 1-2 kills and then nobody will ever get close to him and then destroy him in late game.

If he's right inside his wall, then he wont be safe there. The wall is thin, yasuo will still get hit by projectiles. But he can maneuver back and forth to stay behind wall.

taunt passive that forces every player to waste 60% of a teamfight damage on his wall just to prove him we're not afraid of his tricks.

lol