Why do people hate Yasuo

Danjeng·Nov 2, 2016·2 votes·1,457 views

"upvote if you hate yasuo the champ" "Upvote if u don't like yasuo mains"

both of these get a ton of upvotes. The content of the posts make fun of angry Yasuo's: "here come the downvotes", but there aren't any downvotes.

I never played Yasuo in my life. He's one of my main laning opponents, because I play mid and top. He's powerful, but I've seen some pretty terrible Yasuo's, and I know when I'm beaten is fair. Yes, I admit that some of them are more skilled than me. I'm only a Silver-Gold level anyway.

Yasuo mains are perceived to be cancerous, but it seems it's the community which is picking on the Yasuo mains instead. Fuck me. Now I'm a symphathizer.

6 Comments

OneMustFallNov 2, 20163 votes

Something to do with wind and a wall I think.

RalanrNov 2, 20163 votes

And using minions as stepping stones.

DireXconNov 2, 20162 votes

or maybe getting 100% Crit Chance with 2 items

EcchiOtakuTMNov 2, 20162 votes

Sigh people still think wind wall, dashing or 2x crit is an issue.

Wind wall is clear and obvious to play around

Dashing is to enemies only

2x crit requires crit and his crit debuff+omen can do a number on it.

The real issue is after the LW changes LW is a lackluster item and thus since yasuo can turn any tank item into a LW it's ruining his mechanical skill and dumbing him down pisspoor easiness. And unlike crit, he doesn't have to build armor pene to benifit from 50% free armor pene just ulti.

It's giving him far too much hidden power because there's no real way to get around it, crit there's omen, Windwall you can still move and reset a teamfight due to it's CD, dashing is enemies only which can be used against him. But 50% armor pene? Tanks will die no questions asked, there's nothing to actually prevent it and it's far more reliable than GP's barrels(the barrels are another issue though :P).

People keep misguiding the issue as windwall, 2x crit, or mobility which are pretty obvious in terms how to beat. But the free armor pene which makes any tanky item a better LW is really breaking yasuo quite hard.

However there's really no suggestion to be made to fix it, simply changing the bonus isn't the answer because it can't be something to help kill squishies but a way to take out tanks in a more counterplayable way than free 50% armor pene. Shame they tried to mirror riven when making yasuo cause now they have a huge hidden power balance issue and there's no fair way of fixing it. (By fair I mean fix the issue of blowing up tanks and non-LW buying without making it easier to kill squishies)