Playing a mage into Yasuo is really fun

Chris Chiaki·11/21/2015, 12:21:09 PM·155 votes·9,765 views

Ever tried playing into this guy?

Between his shield, wind wall and dashes it's near impossible to harass him. And even if you do, he just takes Feast, the 2% life-steal mastery and and can be full health after a wave of minions. There's no downtime between him windwalling your abilities, shielding your abilities, dodging your abilities or healing off minions.

I don't know why he's allowed to have such a good laning phase (resourceless, mobile) combined with one of the best assassin late-games.

At least you can buy for Zed, nothing stops Yasuo ulting off his team's knock-ups and hitting you for 1800+ damage with Q+AA.

298 Comments

Big Lincoln11/21/2015, 1:09:58 PM65 votes

wow, counterpicks exist, color me tickled.

Malzahar Mordekaiser Swain will laugh in his face and then eat him

TehNACHO11/21/2015, 2:57:48 PM20 votes

Why yes, I do enjoy playing a mage into Yasuo Malzahar

disregardable11/21/2015, 12:23:55 PM17 votes

You actually can QSS his ultimate, as it is a suppression. And unlike with Zed, Yasuo will still be stuck in the animation while you get away.

Edit: Love how I get downvotes for nicely correcting the post. This community lol. Have you ever considered that Yasuo isn't the only person in the game? Maybe, for example, Annie is mid and Yasuo is top. If you get the QSS to lane against Annie, you can still use it against Yasuo. Maybe if you are against Yasuo, you don't even rush the QSS and get it after 2 items and boots. This is valuable information to know, kids.

KaisadiIIa11/21/2015, 3:02:21 PM10 votes

he just takes Feast, the 2% life-steal mastery and and can be full health after a wave of minions

Feast has 20 seconds cooldown. Maybe you are talking about Warlord's Bloodlust, which only triggers against enemy champions.

CasterGilgamesh11/21/2015, 2:34:52 PM7 votes

ive had good luck fighting yasuo with Diana i still think he is cancer though since mid game i struggle killing him even as diana with him criting every fucking hit and my armor means nothing against crits

OverpoweredSoap11/21/2015, 3:45:28 PM7 votes

I feel like I'm the only person that enjoys playing against Yasuo as Karma .

Although, I might be the only person playing Karma.

Too bad Riot removed the bonus damage from Mantra W, would make this match up even more fun.

Dehitay11/21/2015, 6:19:52 PM6 votes

I'll agree with the general consensus that complaining about Yasuo being strong against certain picks is a weak arguement if you're hoping for a rebalance. He has enough counters to where that's not the biggest issue.

When I complain about Yasuo, it's because he he has 2 different passives each individually as powerful as the average champion passive; he's a manaless champ with 2 high damage skills on less than a second cooldown; while as a melee assassin, he needs mobility, but unlike other melee assasins, his mobility skill is essentially always up allowing him to dodge with ridiculous consistency on top of his survivability skill and passive; although he's an assassin, and he has 2 forms of hard CC (the only assassin including ranged like this).

If you ignore who he's playing against and just look at his kit, you better realize There are certain aspects he doesn't need on top of everything else. Mainly the extra crit passive that only serves to give him extra damage and isn't necessary for his kit at all. And I would really appreciate if his dash could be used repeatedly like it is now, but once he doesn't use it for 2 seconds or something, it goes on a 5 sec or something CD so there's actually a window of opportunity to attack highly skilled Yasuo players.

Deaeras11/21/2015, 2:37:01 PM5 votes

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Ever tried playing into this guy?

Between his shield, wind wall and dashes it's near impossible to harass him. And even if you do, he just takes Feast, the 2% life-steal mastery and and can be full health after a wave of minions. There's no downtime between him windwalling your abilities, shielding your abilities, dodging your abilities or healing off minions.

I don't know why he's allowed to have such a good laning phase (resourceless, mobile) combined with one of the best assassin late-games.

At least you can buy for Zed, nothing stops Yasuo ulting off his team's knock-ups and hitting you for 1800+ damage with Q+AA.

He is a very aggressive laner, with the damage and tools to back it up, but he has 0 escape, is too team reliant, goes glass cannon and can be easily focused, and can be harassed when his wall is off cooldown. The problem with you is that you're fighting him in your minion wave, and letting him stack his E damage up, then complaining about him being some bullshit broken champ. Instead you can roam and get kills elsewhere, and dodge his tornado, his ONLY way of getting his ult off in a 1v1. Late game, you should treat him like a Yi or Kat, focus him before anyone else, as he is a glass cannon type champ, if he has 2 defensive items, he loses out on A LOT of damage, and is still somewhat easy to kill. The problem with Yasuo isn't Yasuo, it's you.

ChaoticPinecone11/21/2015, 2:53:35 PM1 votes

Xerath works pretty well. His Q, W and R cant be windwalled.