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According to Champion.GG 4/5 of the top Ban Rate spots are taken by Yasuo and Irelia

ExternalLink·5/28/2018, 2:37:51 PM·2 votes·1,141 views

Despite this, neither champion has an absurd winrate. Irelia sits at 50% wr and Yasuo has a 47% winrate. They both, however, have something major in common that is likely the cause of their extremely high ban-rate; They're EXTREMELY good at countering ranged champions, and probably exist as the undisputed best when it comes to Melee Vs Ranged interactions. Yasuo can (when in a decent spot), do well against ranged champions from level 1, and Irelia is reliably effective at taking out ranged targets in teamfights. (She's always been good at it, but now she's super good at it and in turn, has sacrificed some of the skirmisher bruiser vs bruiser power that her previous iteration had)

My theory; The hate that Yasuo gets, dare I say it, is actually quite unwarranted. The reason people hate Yasuo with such vitriol is because he disturbs an imbalance that has existed for years in League of Legends: Ranged Champions hold an inherent and arguably unfair advantage over melee. Yasuo and Irelia however deny this, as their hyper-mobile kits allow them to stick to a ranged champion like glue when certain conditions are met. This requires the ranged champion to adopt an atypical playstyle to deal with them; At lower levels, players might struggle with the mechanics or mindset necessary to play against these champs - leading them to cry Broken, Brainless or OPed. At higher levels, while players can quite easily shift in playstyles, they might still resent the fact that they have been required to do so in the first place.

Meanwhile Melees have been forced to deal with aids like Vayne top since time immemorial. /post

6 Comments

Hammermancer5/28/2018, 3:13:20 PM2 votes

I feel bad for yasuo mains because they cant even be 1tricks

FOR JUSTICE5/28/2018, 2:58:14 PM1 votes

Actualy the reason people ban yasuo is because he gets fed so easily and basically 1v9's the game. Hes like a master yi that actually takes a decent amount of skill to play. But of couse this only speaks of the ones on the enemy team.

Sona Ping5/28/2018, 3:14:28 PM1 votes

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Despite this, neither champion has an absurd winrate. Irelia sits at 50% wr and Yasuo has a 47% winrate. They both, however, have something major in common that is likely the cause of their extremely high ban-rate; They're EXTREMELY good at countering ranged champions, and probably exist as the undisputed best when it comes to Melee Vs Ranged interactions. Yasuo can (when in a decent spot), do well against ranged champions from level 1, and Irelia is reliably effective at taking out ranged targets in teamfights. (She's always been good at it, but now she's super good at it and in turn, has sacrificed some of the skirmisher bruiser vs bruiser power that her previous iteration had)

My theory; The hate that Yasuo gets, dare I say it, is actually quite unwarranted. The reason people hate Yasuo with such vitriol is because he disturbs an imbalance that has existed for years in League of Legends: Ranged Champions hold an inherent and arguably unfair advantage over melee. Yasuo and Irelia however deny this, as their hyper-mobile kits allow them to stick to a ranged champion like glue when certain conditions are met. This requires the ranged champion to adopt an atypical playstyle to deal with them; At lower levels, players might struggle with the mechanics or mindset necessary to play against these champs - leading them to cry Broken, Brainless or OPed. At higher levels, while players can quite easily shift in playstyles, they might still resent the fact that they have been required to do so in the first place.

Meanwhile Melees have been forced to deal with aids like Vayne top since time immemorial. /post

You mean that site that has in its Top 10 Bans, a specially listed rate of 4.18% for LeBlanc Support?

saltran6/17/2018, 7:30:11 PM1 votes

Meanwhile Melees have been forced to deal with aids like Vayne top since time immemorial. /post

Vayne top has been garbage even when she had 54% winrate botlane on pre season, you are just desillusional as fk.