Yasuo's Passive Could Be Much More Interesting
Right now I feel like Yasuo's passive is very bland and not useless but just stupid and unimportant. Other resourceless champions have special interactions with their passives, like Renekton has a fury bar which is used to buff his abilities, Rumble has a Heat interaction which has to be managed and can also be used to make sick plays and stuff. Riven and Garen are exceptions. (DEMACIA NEEDS NO INTERACTION! And Riven, well its Riven)
But I feel like things like Yasuo's passive could be used in much cooler ways then just giving a free lame shield that doesn't really make sense with his kit at all. Like what if we added back Yasuo's E building up the bar and made it so you had to have a full bar of flow to use his windwall. He is a WIND CHAMPION after all, I feel like there is very little thematic sense to do with the wind other than his jokes. The idea of having his E wind up his passive was a very good idea, but proved to be very broken because it meant a free shield every 2 seconds.
Here is my proposal:
> Resolve: Yasuo generates 1% of his maximum Flow for every 59 / 52 / 46 units he travels by any means, requiring a >total of 5900 / 5200 / 4600 units travelled to obtain maximum Flow. At maximum Flow, the next instance of >champion or monster damage against Yasuo consumes all of his Flow and shields him for 100 - 510 (based on level) >damage for up to 1 second.
-Removed
> Wind Wall: COOLDOWN: 26 / 24 / 22 / 20 / 18 15 / 13 / 11 / 9 / 7
Wind Wall Active: Yasuo creates a gust of wind that travels forward to form a wall in front of him. The wall slowly drifts >forward over
3.75.5 / .75 / 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 seconds, blocking all enemy projectiles with the exception of turret >attacks. Wall Width:300 / 350 / 400 / 450 / 500150 / 175 / 200 / 225 / 250 Consumes full bar of Flow
>BUGFIX: No longer blocks projectiles coming from behind him if the windwall is cast forward.
>Sweeping Blade: Generates 5 Flow per cast
I feel like these changes will make Yasuo more of a wind based champion and really change his W from being this huge hulking thing in teamfights that makes all ranged champions irrelevant for 4 seconds, into this more agile and refined craftsmanship that is made more to block things coming towards him. (After all, none but the wind are his friends) The interaction with his E will make up for the removal of the shield. Thank you for listening to my ideas. Spammer out.
