Runes for Yasuo post 5.1?

Annies Revenge·Jan 16, 2015·2 votes·1,606 views

I've been playing Yasuo and really enjoying it, especially the skill cap since I used to play Annie a lot ;)

With the recent changes to IE, reducing its crit. chance by 5%, it means my full build (with Static Shiv + IE) only gives me 80% crit. chance.

It used to be 90%. I would use a 4 crit. chance red runes and 1 crit. chance yellow rune to make it 100% late game. Now with this change, do you think it is viable to still go for 100% crit. chance? That means I would need more crit. chance red runes, sacrificing some flat AD or attack speed. Or I just go completely without crit. chance runes and accept that my crit. chance will only get to 80%?

4 Comments

Fed by Snu SnuJan 16, 20152 votes

Well, you can try 3 things:

a) Going for 100% with SS/IE by sacrificing more AD from your runes. b) Going full AD runes and building PD/IE. c) Going full AD runes and building SS/IE/yumou's.

100% crit is kinda a core part of yasuo, so you should aim for it. Now which method is the most efficient, well, that's up for you to test, but my bet goes on the SS/IE/yumou's one, although not the cheapest one.

GrimspeakeJan 16, 20151 votes

idk and im so sad, yasuo is fucked. :'(

ccseancc143Jan 17, 20151 votes

Yeah i think youmous is still a good item on Yas. AA boost and move speed. Also the armor pen. With the youmous would his q be on like a .5 second cooldown cause the active gives alot of attack speed.?

Miku Lv99Jan 17, 20151 votes

100% crit chance is overrated and you shouldn't make a big deal about getting there. When it's already at 80% or 90% you'd probably usually get more out of raising some other stats instead.

I'd recommend you just don't use Yasuo in this patch as he's pretty much useless right now.