I always ban Yasuo midlane.

Haze97·11/7/2018, 5:16:52 PM·21 votes·5,894 views

If I had more than two middle fingers right now, I'd stick them all up against Riot.

What the hell were they thinking when they made a character who -

  1. Can practically go any lane.
  2. Used no mana,
  3. Has a ranged attack which knocks units up, has incredible range, and an area of effect larger than most attacks from other truly ranged units,
  4. Can dash multiple times, all day long,
  5. Double crits on will,
  6. Comes with an automatic shield, and
  7. Still somehow gets a windwall as if that shield didn't make it difficult enough to poke at him.

I can play against Zed, I can play against Fizz, I can play against Le Blanc, and literally any other champion mid lane but not this guy. Yasuo is beyond unhealthy.

How on earth do you even poke this guy? I play mid lane and i have played League for a while, both on here and Garena's servers and this is one idiot character who gains a shield every 15 seconds or so just by moving around. Yes, by walking like walking around the map by itself is something worth rewarding by the standards of Riot games. Every hit gives this guy an automatic shield preventing you from being able to go in all out trades even later in the laning phase because all this cancer has to do is walk around for a couple tens of seconds and he gains a buffer to take you on, couple that with his knock up attack with the huge aoe which will leave you unable to attack him followed by an ultimate which does true damage you see where i am going with this. Oh, and you also cannot attack him while he's using his ultimate.

So fuck you Riot. Until you'll nerf Yasuo or double or hell, even triple the time he takes to pull off a full charge for his shield I am going to keep perma banning this character. You guys take a character and give him literally possible form of damage and utility which exists in the game and make a simple task of 'walking' rewarding like the character couldn't build tanky items and still play successful late game.

57 Comments

TehNACHO11/7/2018, 5:36:20 PM7 votes

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  1. Can practically go any lane.

"Practically" is the wrong word.

  1. Does true damage

This is a result of runes and items and is not a problem inherent to Yasuo

  1. Has a ranged attack which knocks units up, has incredible range, and an area of effect larger than most attacks from other ranged units.

Which also needs to be stacked, is hyper telegraphed, and has very small and clear windows of activation.

  1. Does true damage

Don't do that.

  1. Has unlimited dashes,

Don't do that either.

  1. Crits like crazy,

For a reduced amount.

  1. Comes with an automatic shield, and

So does Malphite.

  1. Still somehow gets a windwall as if that shield didn't make it difficult enough to poke at him.

Because his passive shield doesn't? You can pop the shield with a single auto and you'll often be popping it accidentally just throwing an ability at the wave since Yasuo is melee.

I can play against Zed, I can play against Fizz, I can play against Le Blanc, and literally any other champion mid lane but not this guy. Yasuo is beyond unhealthy.

This says more about you than it does about Yasuo.

How on earth do you even poke this guy?

With an auto attack. Then, every time he walks up for minions.

I play mid lane and i have played League for a while, both on here and Garena's servers and this is one idiot character who gains a shield every 15 seconds or so just by moving around.

A lot of champions gain shields just by waiting, no moving required.

Every hit gives this guy an automatic shield

Yeah, that's the point. Hit him passingly then strike him when the shield is down.

Couple that with his knock up attack with the huge aoe which will leave you unable to attack him followed by an ultimate which does true damage you see where i am going with this. Oh, and you also cannot attack him while he's using his ultimate.

Yeah that's how CC works.

Ignoring how easy it is to ignore or at least predict Yasuo's knock ups

Or that Yasuo has no built in true damage

I realize you're just here to rant but you're being unreasonable.

Hot Miss Fortune11/7/2018, 5:49:14 PM7 votes

I have also banned Yasuo every games for ages now and I don't plan to stop. Why? Cause of one specific reason: his Wind Wall.

As a MF main, I love having my entire DPS countered with one W.

PrismalDawn11/7/2018, 5:24:23 PM5 votes

True, and I blame the conqueror rune. In seasons before Vladimir was an easy counter to him.

Now he just out damages me with boots and attack speed items.

That rune needs to be looked at.

Bent Pixels11/7/2018, 5:47:37 PM5 votes

Dont forget that he has no mana*[zombie-brand-clap]*

JohnnyNeverSins11/7/2018, 7:38:26 PM5 votes

Fuck this cancer of a pick,i dont care how "skillfull" you need to be,you are a fucking abuser if you play him..the damage and healing of old adcs with the mobility of an assassin and survivability of a tank.no go fuck yourself.

Daddy ReTaric11/7/2018, 11:01:16 PM5 votes

Yasuo is perma ban for me, even if someone hover him on my team. Windwall need to be looked at.

Side note: Conqueror break a lot of champion :Draven Jax Irelia Kled MasterYi Tryndamere Yasuo ... This rune make counterable champion making uncounterable damage unless you have a health shield.. The whole true damage spam everywhere is lame.

Stars Shaper11/7/2018, 5:39:56 PM4 votes

Well, I always ban Fizz and I do that by default.

Personal dislikes aren't bound to the balance state of the character.

Alzon11/8/2018, 12:27:07 AM3 votes

Just another polarizing champion who hard counters half the roster and loses to the other half. Pay him no mind.

SCP 10611/7/2018, 7:25:05 PM3 votes

Hes probably the easiest person in the game to beat, You act like infinity edge doesn't give everyone double crit, so yasuos passive is pretty lame rn, His base stats are super low, CC Him and its over.

Everyone technically has infinite dashes, Yasuos cooldown is just lower. His crits do lower damage, and with the new infinity edge everyone can do the same, So no point in that. Everyone can go in every lane. Plenty get a shield. Stop being the classic, Bland, annoying yasuo hater that we see enough of. Yasuo isn't broken get over it.

Also (Get out of bronze)

Fear the Kayn11/7/2018, 5:28:25 PM3 votes

I think Yasuo is pretty overrated and hes not that hard to play against, UNLESS that Yasuo has like 500k mastery points. He's extremely skill expressive and relies heavily on experience to perform well on.

HP Crookshanks11/7/2018, 7:16:50 PM2 votes

Me too.

DeracadaVenom11/8/2018, 5:49:01 PM2 votes

I'm a Zoe main, and her basically her entire kit revolves around her Q. Guess what her Q is, a projectile, guess what yasuo can do, wind wall it. SO ANNOYING

Gilgayu11/9/2018, 3:02:04 PM1 votes

But yea, Garen do becomes extremly strong with a few items. and his sustain is no joke...

Pika Fox11/7/2018, 8:21:43 PM1 votes

The entire point is that hes supposed to be strong against ranged champions. Hes weak into melee match ups.

I only ban him because i dont have anyone else i want to ban, and yasuo is a common pick so its always nice to tilt someone who mains said champ on the enemy team.

FCJAAAAGOOOO11/7/2018, 8:07:38 PM1 votes

He needs more focus, for sure. He does too many things well and not enough unique things.

Yasuo is currently the most boring and watered-down champion in the game. He's been that way since release.

Gilgayu11/8/2018, 8:41:48 PM1 votes

Just some remainders...

Yasuo is actually not one of the champions where you just cc them. His mobility requires a target and it isn't even that long His q requires a target for it to stack

During lane phase just stay away from him(or punish him if you are playing Vlad, Riven, etc.) Mid game just roam, Yasuo can't follow you if you are lb, tf, talon, etc. Late game just zone him out (I know it sounds easy on paper, but with enough pratice, it is actually not hard to do) and keep him away from carries

Btw late game lucian can solo kill yasuo unless hit by a tornado.

He is much easier to make irelevant than, say, a fed master yi that literally just ult and right click.

Gilgayu11/7/2018, 8:48:00 PM1 votes

Want me to list other all in carries? Graves is relatively tanky, with dash from e and ult and blind from w Irelia is a brusier, and her "countless" dashes actually do a ton of damage Khazix have invisibility, and can literaly just kill squashies with e-auto-q-w. I don't even want to talk about Akali Fizz also have dash, and she(he?) can kill yasuo easily at her level 6 power spike.

Mid laners who can beat yasuo? Fizz can a good Anivia can predict yasuo's dashes and wall his inside right before he ults so he get punished by either minions or tower. a good zed can, but about 1/3 of his power will be blocked by yasuo's windwall Vladimir can laugh at yasuo's face, just abuse him pre-6 and dodge tornados post-6 even Ryze can (don't look at me like I'm crazy), yasuo's windwall has long cd, the point and click root and the mobility of Ryze's passive will allow him to kite yasuo like a joke.

Yasuo's tornados are much easier to dodge than, say, Lux's q, and in team fights you can deny yasuo and peel him off your carries easily if you have tank/cc support like Alistar, Leona, or Tham Kench(less effective but works)

So many people fail to understand yasuo is not as easy as it seems. Can every yasuo player poke their enemy with their q (and not just the third one) like how good lucians can poke their enemy by q'ing through the minions? Does every yasuo player know when can they beat their opposing laner and start to abuse the lane? Of course not, because if the answer is yes Yasuo's winrate wouldn't be about 48%