Riot wants Yasuo to have reduced passive shield and have his windwall up more frequently.

CatSith·Jul 25, 2017·3 votes·605 views

Yasuo - Exploring weaker shield and more frequent windwalls early game. Goal there is to test shifting defensive power so he's similar or slightly stronger against ranged match ups and weaker against melee, making it clearer how to deal with him if he gets picked/give him situations where he's a better choice without just being a better generalist. We're still looking to do larger work on him at some point too, this is initial investigation, not a comprehensive set of long term changes.

I think the windwall should be changed to only block Ranged auto attacks and not every single projectile, which would actually make him stronger against ranged champions and not a generalist.

4 Comments

awdafJul 25, 20173 votes

Should remove the shield completely, that would balance him.

Rito StaffJul 25, 20171 votes

I think it's the wrong direction.

He's not weak against melee, putting aside Jax and Master Yi (two in which the duel can go either way), who does he lose against? I'm not going over the whole roster but with lifesteal and outplay Yasuo wrecks a lot of ass,

You could remove his shield entirely and he'd still be one of the strongest melees.

One of the problems is the duration of his W, it stays there forever... blocking 1 or 2 auto hits from an adc is already a huge thing, think of two equal damage portions, either 400 - 400 damage, 800 - 800 mega crits, is any of those scenarios not enought damage block?

He also has his E (which is fine), but since he can get out easily, why does his wind wall has to last so long? I mean, go in, use W, block some damage, blocks an ult, pretty enought.

Could last like 1s or 0.75. Would require more skill which is all about Yasuo aint it

MeriipuJul 25, 20171 votes

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I think the windwall should be changed to only block Ranged auto attacks and not every single projectile, which would actually make him stronger against ranged champions and not a generalist.

I can accept the windwall being up more often if its duration drops so that it becomes like a kayle ult or spellshield that you have to actually time correctly