Can we get a Yasuo rework already?

Tuskor·12/21/2017, 12:38:57 AM·4 votes·889 views

This has been a long time coming, but with the addition of the Year in Review, which is actually a very sweet thing of Riot to do for us, it's come to my attention just how much of a massive issue Yasuo truly is. I got curious about other people's Year in Review results and decided to ask around about people's stats and such. They all said the same thing; they have died to Yasuo more times than any champion in the game.

Now, whether that's an issue of him being the most common character to see, which he is, or the matter of being at such a low skill requirement despite what everyone says, which he is, is up for debate. But it's reached the point where I can't go one day without having a Yasuo ruin the match no matter what team he's on. When he's on the enemy team, he's a typical enemy Yasuo getting 7 kills in 6 minutes because he takes no effort to do damage with his nonexistant cooldowns and lack of ability costs, a lot like Katarina, but that's a rant for another day. Whenever he's on my team, he's feeding out the ass due to being a bonobo ape smacking the keyboard with his feet and screaming at the rest of us when he dies. Or he gets fed as all hell because the character takes no effort, but at the same time he's taken so much gold from the rest of us that everyone else falls behind to irrelevancy and the match becomes what is essentially a 4v6.

The man has a shield he gets for walking, the most basic mechanical function of the game, and for ulting, which requires no actual effort on his end. He also gets double crit chance, which can get to 100% with a Phantom Dancer and that 20% crit chance cloak thing, which he WILL rush to build right off the bat. Having his crits do less damage than normal doesn't mean anything when he's always fucking critting. Once he gets a Phantom Dancer and an Infinity Edge, the first of which is only 2550 gold, he can just build tanky and still do ridiculous damage. Or he can build full AD with a Bloodthirster and still take no damage because he gets free shields and has a shield for walking. Not to mention that he moves around so unpredictably that even if he didn't have the shields he still wouldn't take damage because you can't fucking HIT him. And even if he wasn't moving around the battlefield like a god damn ballerina and didn't build defensively and didn't have shields, he can still just Windwall and delete every ranged attack except Nautilus' ultimate and any ult like Lux or Vel'Koz that's a laser.

His survivability aside, the man does too much damage and actually has a gross amount of crowd control. There's his knockup that he can spam. A SPAMMABLE knockup. That doesn't cost any mana, health, or energy. Because his resource bar is a shield. And even if he's got the aim of a suicidal gun owner and misses his knockup, he can just ult to anyone knocked up by an ally. Which extends the knockup even more. You can't cleanse his ult, you can't flash out of his ult, you can't escape the ult. All I can ever do is just Exhaust him and pray that it counts towards his ult damage. And even if it does count, he gets free damage and armor ignoring just for pressing a button and blinking to the enemy. Because this ult has no cast time. Remember when Warwick's ultimate before he got reworked just popped him onto the enemy and surpressed them for a while as they took a bunch of damage? And how they removed that because it was nonsense? Well at least that ability cost mana and could be stopped by stunning Warwick. Yasuo presses R and pretty much starts a cutscene.

In short, Yasuo takes little effort for such a high payoff. He has no cooldowns on his main damage sources, he gets damage for free and defenses for walking because we need to hold his hand more, and his character design appeals to so many people that you'd be hard pressed to go one day without seeing the fucker. If everyone I've spoken to so far said that their stats said they've died to Yasuo more than any other champion, why has he gotten a buff in the last patch?

(They also say that he's the most killed champion they went against, but that's because he's in every other game.)

Riot, please just delete Yasuo and replace him with that Voodoo guy you scrapped back in Season 1 that's apparantly in the Jurassic Anivia splash art. (also stop making every skin you release priced at 1350 RP)

From, A support main who's been here since preseason 2.

7 Comments

Daddy Braum12/21/2017, 12:47:01 AM4 votes

Been here for about that long as well But anyways Yas isnt a problem the problem is how much he is rewarded for doing almost nothing He's too easy to learn and the whole 10% less crit damage isnt enough he just needs that bumped down a little bit more Or just reduce the duraration of his windwall he dosent need a rework as his kit does take a lot of time to master but his damage is too much for how available his skills

Bronze 6 Yasuo12/21/2017, 12:44:55 AM3 votes

Quality shit post.

Sektah12/21/2017, 12:50:12 AM3 votes

Yas is just a low risk high reward

Ayanami3rd12/21/2017, 3:08:29 PM2 votes

Totally true. I always wonder how people even manage to feed with Yasuo. But I won't sacrifice my honor just to try him out myself. No, no, no.

Shahamut12/27/2017, 7:36:31 PM2 votes

You should add me and 1v1 me, I want you to show me how "low effort" it is to win as Yasuo...

Im a top lane main, I destroy Yasuo. 99/100 times. and that 1 time out of 100? will either be his jungler camping his lane 24/7 or the Yasuo player is ACTUALLY good at the champion.

You can't have it both ways, "He's so EZ low skill floor he gets so much for so little effort" and then when his winrate is brought up say, "Its cuz people are bad at him".

He obviously takes a lot more skill than you will give him credit for.