Wind Wall is completely infuriating to play against.

Strawberrycocoa··10 votes·927 views

It blocks every damn thing to a point Yasuos can even use it to deny CS.

I'd love to see it get a limit to how many things it can block, like Sivir and Nocturne's and Banshee's spellshields can only block one spell, or no longer be able to block auto-attack missles so it's primary use is to provide safety from skillshots (and maybe stop jerkass Yasuos from denying people CS with it).

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tXQbsPrjN58 votes

What, you have a problem with a manaless AD assassin that gains a free shield from walking, has double crit, can follow up ganks from half way across the map, 50% free arpen, has flash on a 0 second cooldown, essentially builds attack speed first yet can still do more dmg than most mages and has a no counterplay bullshit ability that negates all of your abilities cause lol why not.

What you got a problem with that?

tooomine2 votes

upvoted for extreme accuracy.

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

Naaaw it's fine, just stun him and oh shit he bought Tenacity we're fucked.

Revali3 votes

if a yasuo is using his windwall to deny cs ( depending on your champ)

Punish the shit out of him

Strawberrycocoa4 votes

I've tried telling my junglers that, but they don't always use it. And he still has his free shield to protect him regardless.

Zorasama3 votes

^ This. His free shield is already make it hard to trade with him to begin with. Windwall just make it even harder.

Kai Guy3 votes

always pop his shield when you have the opportunity, no reason to let him lane with it. very few mages mid should have a struggle to get his sheild down and retreat a bit to make shure he has to dash a few times to get close, after that he is less likely to try and go ham on you unless he thinks he can wind wall your combo, and if he is blowing that for cs you should be able to punish him when he moves in for damage or cs.

Saljin2 votes

proccing his schield with spells cost you alot of mana, doing with aa's cause health considering minions will target you. punish him with spells when he burns his wall is fine but if you are already losing the lane he can use it for denying cs and nothing u can do.

TheWeatherWax1 votes

Would be nice if junglers would listen when you tell them it's down because he thinks denying cs is a perfectly reasonable use for it. (If top and jung would roam down it would end him but that doesn't always happen)

Strawberrycocoa2 votes

One of my biggest gripes is when the recommended counter to a champion is "teamwork", because outside of the upper 1% of games good luck getting people to coordinate enough for that.

TheWeatherWax1 votes

Agreed. Which is part of the reason I may be unpopular but I do like the dynamic queue. I can choose people who I trust to play with me and that means when I say "help" I get it (usually). The only time I run into trouble is when I play solo.

GaleWinUnleashed3 votes

If he's not using it to block your main combo or a hard CC, make him pay for it. Don't just throw your burst at him in one shot and hope it works; space out your abilities and keep him on the defensive if you can.

MunchCrunchLunch2 votes

well the point here is that yasuo is one of the easiest champion to dodge skillshots with. couple that with his shield. means that poke does almost nothing against him. so you can't punish him that heavily. laning phase against him and his ear cancer sound effects hasagi makes him one of the most painful champions to play against

EarthenDragon1 votes

I concur.

Kai Guy1 votes

As malz you could use Q to cs behind wall, E still works As karth, Q is used more then autos and you won that game too so figured this post is from the malz match. Also if Yas is blowing WW to deny cs, he is losing one of his best defensive tools and you got a solid 10+ to get some harass in on him. use that to deny his ability to cs safely.

Strawberrycocoa2 votes

That's a good guess, but naw, on Malz I don't have a problem with the Wind Wall cheapness because Malz doesn't really use projectiles. Q fires from two directions so one or the other will likely hit Yasuo, and as you mentioned E is click-target so it bypasses the wall entirely.

This rage is coming from the recent Sivir game. I couldn't safely engage on him so I was using Q + item 3087 -empowered W to clear waves coming down the lane after the inhib went down. He kept throwing down wind wall to stall my waveclear by making it impossible to Q or use autos for W.

I've also had other games where the lane phase becomes an annoyance of being denied farm from Wind Wall bullshit blocking auto-attack missles when I try to CS. I've also seen bot lane Yasuos do that pretty much just to screw the enemy Marksmen's farming up to feed theirs a gold advantage.

tooomine2 votes

I agree with you that its a problem. I'd like to see some significant trade offs for all that power, you know.

Psyturkey1 votes

Honestly, I love Yasuo and I agree that his Windwall is a little too free.

I've always said that Windwall should empty Yasuo's flow.

I wouldn't mind seeing some compensatory buffs (possibly the size of his shield increased to make up for the fact that when he uses windwall, he wont get a shield).

tooomine1 votes

This.

This would pretty much fix it, I think.

wow.

to be clear, it can still be cast with 0 flow, still has a same cooldown, but if he uses windwall, he loses his shield as well (IMO).

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