Re-Balance changes for Yasuo: Quick Thoughts

JohnnyFallDown·6/23/2017, 2:10:06 PM·3 votes·519 views

So Riot announced that they are going to look at Yasuo. 10 Bans ensures Yasuo has a very high ban rate. I am by no means a Yasuo main but every now and then I dabble with Yasuo in blind pick Normals. I admint that if I cant think of anyone that I wanna ban in ranked, Yasuo is my go to ban. My perspective on him is that he has a kit filled with potential, gated mostly by cooldowns. I like his kit in that it is fun and fulfills his fantasy really well. but playing against him can be no fun sometimes. I am not going to cover that ground as most people on this board know what the negatives are. So here is my thoughts on a way to rebalance him.

His passive is flow. The more he moves, he builds flow. once his flow is full he gets a shield. What it his flow is a also a resource for his abilities. I would leave Q and R as is but he needs to build flow in order to use his dashes and his windwall. Now currently his shield needs full flow before it can 'activate'. This would require some reconfiguration but what if eah dash used a small portion of flow. If he runs out of flow... no more dashes. if no more flow... no windwall.

  • Some of the balancing could be if he only has a little flow and he windwalls does it reduce the duration of the wall?
  • Currently dashing builds flow, if it now costs flow could you gain more flow from hitting Qs and gain full flow on R?

These are just some thoughts...

What are your thoughts?

Thanks for reading.

6 Comments

Kledy McKledFace6/23/2017, 2:40:27 PM2 votes

at this point just rework him entirely into something completly diffenrent.... everyone is complaining about how broken his kit is since the beginning no matter if hes 53% win rate or 40% at the moment....

They failed miserably at his kit better redo it entirely with the same staff from the lasts updates since they're great (post- mordeGaiser)

Rainfall6/23/2017, 3:45:33 PM2 votes

the most basic and vital change is that his shield passive belongs under his W not as a general passive. that way maybe riot canget some of his player base to go back mid. a champion winning lane with 1 less ability is unhealthy for the game.