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Yasuo in 80% of games

Monkey D Luffy·Sep 22, 2015·17 votes·1,491 views

Can we just nerf him so I don't see him as much, seriously, sick of seeing this guy only.

Edit: I'm not saying he's Overpowered, that's a completely different topic, also the 80% isn't the whole league of legends, I just personally find Yasuo every second game or every game and I'm sick of seeing him, he's really annoying to verse in my own personal opinion and I'd like to see him nerfed or changed in some way or another so he's not as annoying to verse / isn't in so many % of my games.

Edit 2: Trinity force Yasuo is certainly very strong and viable, lots of people are saying Yasuo is a glass cannon, I'm not gonna argue with that, he is indeed a glass cannon but he also has very good defense mechanisms (Shield, projectile blocker, kite and mobility) I don't think he should be nerfed just because he's popular, I'll admit Yasuo can be quite fun to play however it's not fun to play against him all the time. What I am after is variety, this isn't a problem with just Yasuo either, there have always been champions that are hardly ever seen then you have all the champs that always seem to be relevant, and that's the real issue I have, that variety is lacking in this game, I personally find Yasuo in my games more than anyone else and I'm kind of sick of it.

45 Comments

KeevalroySep 23, 20156 votes

He's winning 49.53% of games in ranked, where Riot was strongly considering nerfing him if he got to 50 since he would be too strong...I'd say that's plenty close enough.

Edit: It happened! He's at 50.1! Gut him! Gut him like a fish!

nealgoogsSep 23, 20151 votes

the thing is a lot of those people max q first instead of e when you max e first lol your win rate shoots up to like 52%

nealgoogsSep 23, 20154 votes

actually my bad 55% lol http://champion.gg/champion/Yasuo/Middle

KeevalroySep 23, 20154 votes

Good enough - gut him.

Bastard ChiefSep 22, 20155 votes

I hate frickin Yasuo lol, he is BS. He is almost in every other game for me too. When he was free to play a week or two ago, he was in EVERY SINGLE game. Literally. Luckily he takes some skill I guess, so most of them were bad.

Monkey D LuffySep 23, 20153 votes

Yeah so many Yasuo's

completeness79Sep 23, 20153 votes

He's played every game because he's stupid OP. He has a stupid safe laning phase with not only his dash, but also his shield (not to mention AOE melee attack), he does stupid amounts of damage after only getting a single item, which is ridiculously easy for him to get because of that stupid easy laning phase, then, to top it all off, his ult is on a stupid low cd, so even if only a single member of his team has a knockup (and malph is basically god tier in this meta), you just got ulted AGAIN.

KeevalroySep 23, 20151 votes

He's not overpowered. Now having a broken and obnoxiously overloaded kit is something else entirely, and I'll agree to that.

Sinister MarsSep 23, 20151 votes

His passive, although cool, makes his kit so broken. He's completely reliant on a single stat and when he gets it, he has very, very strong power spikes. And as a result, they had to make the rest of his kit boring and way downtuned.

Shadow GilgameshSep 23, 20153 votes

I wouldn't even mind him showing up that much if there was literally anything fun about playing against him.

They pumped so much shit into the guy that he's able to go MIDLANE with all the mages and assassins as a god damn melee ADC and big shock having so much crap in the kit makes it feel like shit to play against, even if you win, because everything requires you to go the extra mile.

z63XnLCMwXSep 22, 20152 votes

Malzahar

stealthfox94Sep 23, 20151 votes

Takes a massive dump on Yasuo in lane.

SmileLaterSep 22, 20152 votes

Yasuo, Vayne, Katarina, Akali, Mord* are all easy to kill Sure they snowball hard but good cc destroys them.

No nerf needed, he's a glass cannon, easily beat.

completeness79Sep 23, 20156 votes

Wow, what a surprise. CC, every champion in the game's counter, counters champs that do BS damage. Good answer.

qetzelSep 23, 20152 votes

CC does affect different champions differently though.

CC typically has higher value against short range squishy champions. These can often be blown up before the CC ends, if you chain it correctly. CC during Kat's ultimate makes her lose a much larger amount of her damage (if you don't kill her in the duration) than CCing a Sejuani, for example. CCing Morde before he gets his third Q off does more than CCing Morde after he has used it.

It isn't "just CC them" it is "CC them at the right time, and follow up appropriately".

NarasimhaSep 23, 20153 votes

CC, every champion in the game's counter

Sit down my friend, you're about to get a crash course, presented by yours truly.

CC does NOT counter every champion in the game equally. CC is primarily and mostly effective against targets that rely on DPS. These targets have to constantly be outputting damage to get their value. So not only does being cced make them more vulnerable, but they're not doing damage either. Now, compare that to someone like Cho'gath or Renekton. CC is NOT as effective against them. Why? Because they rely on their abilities to do their damage. They are primarily cooldown gated. It doesn't matter as much if you cc them, because it only delays their damage at best, rather than negating it. Their best case, in fact, is to be cced when everything is on cooldown, because then they lose nothing.

BeMyFriendPleaseSep 22, 20152 votes

But he's "weak" because he has low damage to make him "balanced"

StreetonSep 22, 20152 votes

he is a glass canon it is very easy to kill him

Monkey D LuffySep 23, 20152 votes

It's not very easy to kill him to be honest lol, sure CC him, that is if your cc isn't a projectile or skill shot that he'll dodge / block.

Sinister MarsSep 23, 20153 votes

He's not as glassy as other cannons though. He does get a projectile shield and free hp at the start of just about every fight. He's not a tank, but he's not without defense entirely.

BaunjoSep 23, 20152 votes

yasuo is just a really fun champion, he has high skill cap play and is very flashy so people love him. You cannot do anything about that xD

stealthfox94Sep 23, 20152 votes

Funny since he's not even that strong atm. I only have a problem with him if the enemy also has Malphite or MonkeyKing

bad manner kidSep 23, 20152 votes

Yasuo's farming potential is retarded vs mana champions.

If he punishes you at all in lane, expect to have 1/2 his CS at best.

Additionally, his ult range is literally 0% counterplayable. Having him dash an entire lane length into some random CC to crush your face with a huge crit while your stunned.

NemeBroSep 22, 20151 votes

No, that reasoning is stupid.

disregardableSep 22, 20151 votes

that reasoning is the entire foundation of "nerf vayne"

DeadlyStalkerSep 22, 20151 votes

Yasuo is easy to kill, if he is ahead just buy qss or zhonias.

warpenguin555Sep 22, 20151 votes

Link or it's not true

SaltyKrackaSep 22, 20151 votes

I mean, it's not like he's in 25% of games or anything...

IcyPepperSep 22, 20151 votes

Vayne Thresh

Just saying, these two are even more popular.

Monkey D LuffySep 23, 20152 votes

I see Vayne often too, not as much as yasuo and as for thresh i see him too but not as much as vayne and yasuo

SaltyKrackaSep 23, 20152 votes

They're all way too popular. They all deserve nerfs.

...but just fyi, yasuo was in literally half of all normal games a couple weeks ago.

stealthfox94Sep 23, 20151 votes

I seriously doubt that.

SaltyKrackaSep 23, 20152 votes

http://www.lolking.net/champions/yasuo#statistics

See for yourself.

Sinister MarsSep 23, 20151 votes

Vayne is most popular Champ. By a long, long shot. Go check it out!

KeevalroySep 23, 20151 votes

In ranked. You're not taking into account normals.

http://www.lolking.net/charts?region=all&type=champion-popularity&range=monthly&map=sr&queue=normal

Daily, Weekly, and Monthly tabs across all regions all have Yasuo at the front.

Akali is SO HOTSep 23, 20151 votes

git gud op

Sinister MarsSep 23, 20151 votes

Vayne and Thresh. Two most popular champs. They share a lane. Someone fix.

RouterSmiterSep 23, 20151 votes

you forgot to mention your salt

yukonlSep 23, 20151 votes

The more the better. Free lane for my Heimerdinger/Annie mid.

KaminoXSep 23, 20151 votes

lol i main yas and cutting enemies down is so fun :P

Stars ShaperSep 23, 20151 votes

Expecially if you don't feel he is overpowered then the only reason you see him played a lot it's because he is fun to play.

If you want to nerf a champion just because he is fun to play or remove the fun in playing him then you are the worst.

HEXXEN9xSep 23, 20151 votes

I can take that his wind wall is bs, his final is hard to avoid at all, even the over sheild !?!

F*%& his dashing, nearly nullifies my skill shots that costs something to cast on most mages. Even if I time it right, his animation is a whole lot faster >.>.

LaserDeathBladeSep 23, 20151 votes

I don't think nerfing a champ because people like to play him is a good approach

WeatheredSep 23, 20151 votes

Ya, yasuo isn't overpowered or broken, he's kinda like katarina. People can use him easily and make decent plays that eventually win games, so he's a VERY popular pick. Tbh i just pick heimer mid and then he has no cs to snowball xD -- turrets op

awer4553DAFERdaBSep 23, 20151 votes

Yasuo isn't op or anything. He's got an insanely high skill ceiling, one of the highest or shared highest. The thing is tho, people can reach this.. By using scripts.

Vayne and yasuo are one of the best script champions. Use your eyes..

Theres FOTM's in scripts too.. last month it was kalista.. now its vayne. First it was kata, now its yasuo. It's quite obvious in most cases when they script. And it's quite obvious if their KDA's on other champs ( like a support non worthy of scripting basicly ) just plain suck. Or if their match history is full of cassio/vayne/yasuo etc, in that case you don't even have to see much material ingame to confirm they script.

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