Yasuo Op or not?

Bultz··3 votes·552 views

So with the changes made for season six I feel that playing an Yasuo is almost a struggle now. I chose to play him mainly because i love samurais and he fits the bill. But with the nerfing that has taken place to all of his major core item builds, its just made it difficult. All of his items were weakened and all of them had a price increase.

Everyone always complains about Yasuo, but he in my opinion is far from op. Have you tried facing Quinn recently? That's op. As a fighter/Assassin Yasuo can only survive if he gets a shit ton of kills early on and him being a late game champion doesn't give him much chance of that. Considering most tanks have become so hard to kill and you have some like Mundo running around almost unkillable, Yasuo hardly has a chance against them. All of the Adc were buffed so badly that assassins, whose role it is to take them out, can't do it anymore. Then you have your cc champions who, like Brand, just need to stun Yasuo and being able to to half Yasuo's health with one hit even early on just makes it a terrible match up.

Yes Yasuo has his windwall, but with a fairly long cooldown time its a one shot deal. That and when you have champions like Syndra who stun you then just spam her kit its difficult because you're silenced and that windwall is useless. On top of that champions easily enough side step it. If you play Syndra, all you have to do is get yasuo separated from the minions and bam he has no dashes or escapes.

I'm not saying Yasuo doesn't have his moments, but for him to be considered op is far from true. Unless you get a lot of kills early on, its difficult.

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Flying Buntcake4 votes

Except after 1.75 items he has 100% crit. I'm sorry, but if you can't assassinate people or get gank kills with 100% crit, well then.

Bultz2 votes

Have you tried playing a Darious with grasp of the undying? 100% critical means very little when hes healing constantly. Or a Quinn who literally butt fucks you so hard that you critical means nothing?

Sinister Anubis1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Flying Buntcake,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=cEE2gBlH,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2015-12-21T04:41:38.301+0000)

Except after 1.75 items he has 100% crit. I'm sorry, but if you can't assassinate people or get gank kills with 100% crit, well then.

You do know 100% crit on yasuo is still doing less damage then say any other champion IN THE GAME. If 1 crit was 200% the normal damage of the attack then yasuos is effectively only doing 180% damage. So get off the ban wagon about his 100% crit. its not even as good as other champions who can achive the same thing like "cough" tryndamere.

Indominus Blade2 votes

Yasuo is garbage, 43% global winrate in diamond. He needs buffs/rework. Anyone who thinks Yasuo is strong or hard to lane against is a low elo moron.

Hi lm Negan2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Indominus Blade,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=cEE2gBlH,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2015-12-21T10:28:05.483+0000)

Yasuo is garbage, 43% global winrate in diamond. He needs buffs/rework. Anyone who thinks Yasuo is strong or hard to lane against is a low elo moron.

I just feel like his kit is strong on paper but in game it's garbage. I played some Yasuo toplane in normals and either I went legendary in the first 20 minutes or I farmed heavily (220cs minute 20) and just dominated. Since I am in gold league people let me free farm for a shit tons of time. People just don't know how to lane/play against Yasuo. If focused properly he is really weak.

Indominus Blade2 votes

[{quoted}](name=SKT Rick Grimes,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=cEE2gBlH,comment-id=00020000,timestamp=2015-12-21T15:23:03.350+0000)

I just feel like his kit is strong on paper but in game it's garbage. I played some Yasuo toplane in normals and either I went legendary in the first 20 minutes or I farmed heavily (220cs minute 20) and just dominated. Since I am in gold league people let me free farm for a shit tons of time. People just don't know how to lane/play against Yasuo. If focused properly he is really weak.

Yasuo kit used to be strong when he had flow regen on dashes, stronger and longer lasting shield and health points (pre-nerf) which made him much more durable. Now he is super squishy and his damage isn't even that high, 100% crit? who cares, his damage is still medicore.

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