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Pros and Cons : Yasuo

Buzhidog·11/24/2016, 9:16:21 AM·3 votes·1,380 views

Ill be doing more of these because I dislike Yasuo, but I'll do more to get it out of my brain. The numbers of ticks represent the level of use. In cons it shows how weak it makes the champion.

Pros + -Double Critical Chance III -Movement Shield II -Ability CD reduced by Attack Speed III -Dashes II -Can build tank I -Easy ultimates (team required) III -Can build nearly everything II -Low cooldown ultimate II

Cons - -Squishy I -Conditional Ultimate I -Slow shield I -Long CD shield I

Personal thought on difficulty - 6/10

Though his R is conditional, many champions have knockups anyway and his ultimate has a very low cooldown compared to other champions. Though Q is predictable, you are only required to hit any target twice, to get it empowered. He also has very high ratios, one of which is AP based which makes no sense but is there I guess. Yasuo only has a short CD on his E when dashing from one target to another, but cannot dash to the same target for a few seconds. This makes Yasuo's laning phase usually very rewarding. In other environments, his E is not used as much after dashing through monsters. Overall, the Yasuo is very strong, and even stronger with just slight stats from items.

10 Comments

JustMonika1311/28/2016, 10:51:46 PM4 votes

Add another lesser known con: Yasuo's dash is the only dash in the game completely interrupted by all hard movement CC, while other dashes are only stopped by airborne displacements.

XxMLG420NoScopeX11/24/2016, 9:23:32 AM3 votes

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Cons - -Squishy

Yeah, """""squisy""""". Getting a shield 2-3 times a fight makes him anything but.

appleswuashswiss11/24/2016, 9:26:11 AM2 votes

So whats your point should he be nerfed or buffed? Low elo everyone blindly instabans yasuo cuz they got no balls of steel. i mean its so easy to counter pick yasuo and to counter him in lane and team fights in general. 6/10 i think it should be at least 9/10 . Give the champ credit as he requires some skill in laning and learning the champion altogether.

GULAG 4 U11/28/2016, 10:59:45 PM1 votes

I'll just list what I disagree with you.

-dashes: Despite they are in abundance, they are in a fixed range and determined by minions. Also interrupted by CC too. That makes his trajectory very easo to predict.

-Can built tank That's not exclusive to Yasuo. Most melee carries/divers can do this too.

-can build nearly anything

Are we talking about mordekaiser, shyvana, aatrox or Yasuo here?

Feed Me Laddie11/24/2016, 7:12:46 PM1 votes

I used to main Yasuo, and I do think he takes some skill. (My elo is low gold high silver so I'm trash) I do think the one huge thing that could be nerfed is his windwall. I think they should change it to block one ability or a number of auto attacks. That would make it more skillful to block a ryze q or jinx ult. Just my opinion though.

SSrikeShadow11/24/2016, 2:50:18 PM1 votes

He's definitely not squishy in lane b/c of his shield. In lane he has very very few counters and with draft pick you rarely get to counter pick anyhow so he's basically safe to first pick. I mean who really hard counters him? Swain, but not till lvl 6. The problem is that one hard cc ability does not counter him b/c of his shield + windwall. How many champions actually have 2 hard cc's that his windwall won't block? Leona? Vi? Riven? Any viable mid laners? Just google Yasuo counters and look at the list - it's laughable how much a reach most of those champs are as an actual counter to Yasuo. I mean they actually list Ryze as a counter to Yasuo - what a joke.

His windwall, shield or dash need a hard nerf. I mean his windwall is exponentially more powerful than Braum's and his dash has way too short a cdr as does his shield. With a hard nerf on one of those, his ultimate is fine.

Oglaf11/24/2016, 7:13:42 PM1 votes

Pros: Oveprowered and overloaded as all hell.

Cons: Perma-banned outside of Blind Pick for the above reasons.