Simple suggestion for a Yasou nerf

NotSpecialDude··4 votes·618 views

I didn't really want to jump on the yasou hate train, but after a particularly frustrating game against a bruiser yasuo top, I need to vent.

From what I can tell, Bruiser Yasou i.e (item 3078 item 3022 item 3158 item 3053 item 3065 item 3068 ) Works because yasou's base damage is high enough to kill squishes and his ult's armor pen makes up for the lack of damage this build causes making him very sticky, hard to kill, and strong in teamfights.

Personally, I'd gut yas right in his base values, but I'd rather not have a repeat of ekko where the intended role suffers as well.

Instead of that, here's what I'd suggest:

Original:

> ACTIVE: Yasuo blinks to the nearest visible Airborne icon airborne enemy champion to the cursor, instantly generating maximum Flow. Upon arriving, he Stun icon suspends all nearby Airborne icon airborne enemies for 1 second and deals them physical damage. PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 200 / 300 / 400 (+ 150% bonus AD) For the next 15 seconds, Yasuo ignores 50% of his targets' bonus armor. Casting Last Breath clears all stacks of Gathering Storm

My suggestion:

> ACTIVE: Yasuo blinks to the nearest visible Airborne icon airborne enemy champion to the cursor, instantly generating maximum Flow. Upon arriving, he Stun icon suspends all nearby Airborne icon airborne enemies for 1 second and deals them physical damage. PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 200 / 300 / 400 (+ 150% bonus AD) For the next 15 seconds, Yasuo ignores 5%(+ crit chance from outside sources capping at 55%) of his targets' bonus armor. Casting Last Breath clears all stacks of Gathering Storm

Essentially, I want the armor pen from his ult to scale with the crit from his items or runes. Forcing yas to either build crit if he wants that pen from the ult. Numbers may not be exactly what's needed but those could be fixed.

7 Comments

PermabannedGaren1 votes

It's not Yasuo's base damage. His bases are shit.

It's sheen and fervor of battle.

GULAG 4 U1 votes
  1. it's yasuo, not yasou.

  2. Read permabannedgaren's post. He says it right there and clear.

NotSpecialDude1 votes

To be fair, I am rather new to the boards so I wouldn't have known.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

Honestly if you play the game you should know, this has nothing to do with the boards.

IronwallJackson1 votes

@PermabannedGaren is right, Yasuo's base damages are fucking abysmal. Like most ADCs do, he scales with gold, not level, so he actually becomes less proportionately effective to his lane opponents the more they drag out the first back.

NotSpecialDude1 votes

I figured as much but it is a bit frustrating that my nerf suggestion is getting overlooked because I was wrong about something else.

I just want to know, is the ult nerf ok?

IronwallJackson1 votes

Sure, I suppose. It's as good enough a way as any to discourage his non-crit bruiser builds as any I can think of. Locking him out of his arpen unless he crits might also work.

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