Riot should consider doing Yasuo changes aimed at reducing his frustration to play against.

Foucz·2/9/2019, 2:07:10 PM·20 votes·10,592 views

When Yasuo is strong he gets high ban rates but he never goes under something like 30%. This is his state for years. I think there is a place to work with him and its possible to find solution where Yasuo players can enjoy their champion every ranked and he is less frustrating to play against.

30 Comments

Its All Skillzz2/11/2019, 2:56:42 PM8 votes

The best way to fix yasuo is to find his character code and press the delete key.

DuskDaUmbreon2/9/2019, 2:18:28 PM6 votes

Agreed. Change the visuals for his wall into a sign that says "STOP FUCKING THROWING YOUR ULTS INTO THIS", and whenever his passive is up he holds a sign that says "AUTO ME AND WAIT A SECOND BEFORE ULTING ME"

Netorare2/11/2019, 8:17:20 PM6 votes

Yes, remove windwall.

Poske2/9/2019, 2:26:26 PM3 votes
  • Suggestion number 1 remove the windwall curve. More like a IIIIIIIIIIIIIII LESS like a ((())()()()()(

  • Suggestion number 2 make windwall overall shorter / or more extreme make it have a hole in a middle (the hole suggestion is prob worse)

  • Suggestion number 3 change Dash tracking system on minions make it available for enemies to see as well (Color shifting, better then a circle decaying due to league angle tilt sometimes I dont know on what minion I can/cant dash on due to Angles)

  • Suggestion number 4 lower his R damage yasuo is sustained dps champion and not a combo burster

This is coming from a veryyyyyyy veryy good yasuo player. I peeked as top 10 yasuo world and was probably the best ** ADC ** yasuo at in a past I am all up for removing some of Yasuo frustration

The third change also helps yasuo player distinguish on what minions they can dash so free gameplay clarity for yasuo mains :)

Et Tu Geddn XNa 2/9/2019, 6:28:52 PM2 votes

Fact is that Yasuo is one of leagues most loved champions in terms of playerbase which is why they wont change much of his kit ever.

Salron2/10/2019, 4:13:49 AM1 votes

Riot cannot change what people hate about him without ruining him what people enjoy playing him for

Josh Sand2/12/2019, 10:00:24 PM1 votes

I cant stand the argument against nerfing Yasuo where you don't want to step on the toes of the "players who have fun playing him"

OK fine, let those players have their fun, but at least 30% of the entire playerbase hates him, so lets knock him down a peg, so hes under a 47% win rate. If people are playing Yasuo primarily just for fun, then why would they mind it if he's weak?

People still keep playing Thresh, even when his win rate is low, so why wouldn't they keep playing Yasuo if he's grossly underpowered? Just give him the Akali treatment already. Nobody is ever going to like playing against him.

Troll Slaiyer2/12/2019, 7:09:17 PM1 votes

remove dmg on dashes .. im so sick of ap yasuo's in my games

Linna Excel2/11/2019, 8:11:04 PM1 votes

I'd say there are three fustrating things about yasuo. The first is his E gives him a lot of damage/waveclear/mobility. It's crazy overloaded so dealing with yasuo is something you have to learn. The second thing is a lot of people love champs with big ults and his windwall when properly used deletes those big ults. So basically he can take a big chuck of what you love about your main away. Finally his passive lets him get to 100% crit very easily with very little trade off.

So can riot remove any of those things?

I'd say Yasuo needs at least one if not both of the actives to act as a skirmisher. He has to be able to get to a target so at least the mobility aspect of his E needs to stay. As for his windwall I don't think riot can outright remove it. When I play overwatch (not as often as I like) I like playing D.Va. Being able to eat damage and ults is just fun and useful and it's not something you can delete. So that leaves yasuo's damage steroid as a possible avenue if riot is just going to do one thing.

I think I'd experiment with the following three things as riot:

  1. Increase the damage penalty on his crits so that he needs to buy IE to do double damage on crit.
  2. Follow blizzard's lead and lock down the duration of the windwall. I'd also consider making it so that eating an ult makes it go away completely or maybe require Yasuo to be at max flow for it to block ults.
  3. Delete the following from his E: "Each Sweeping Blade cast increases the next dash's base damage by 25% for 5 seconds, up to 50%." If that isn't enough make it do half damage to champions. Or riot can make it more of a risk/reward skill by giving Yasuo a stacking 10AR/10MR debuff every time he uses it. Riot needs to make it less overloaded or make it so you have to be more deliberate on using it.
PrinceOfStorms2/11/2019, 4:52:06 AM1 votes

Just gut ADC itemization (like increase the cost of every attack speed item by 1000g and reduce the stats they give by 20%) and Yasuo will get weaker.