Remember when people asked for Yasuo buffs?

I agree. I feel like Yasuo's kit is inherently designed as an anti-poke, similar to Irelia when she's played in mid lane. Against a poke mage, Yasuo excels in getting in their face with his multiple dashes (like Irelia) and destroying them since, of course, he's melee. The way to play against Yasuo is to beat him at the melee game, not try to outrange him.

I feel like Yasuo's kit is a little bit frustrating though, because no matter how well you position in lane, he's practically guaranteed to get into your face and out-trade you, but he's definitely not overpowered by any stretch of the imagination and people complaining about him aren't saying he's OP so much as that he's somewhat annoying to play against if you aren't melee.

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Play or any AD/AP bruisers against him and you will know why people think he is weak.

As a Yasuo main, is only good against skill shot mages and ADCs. can easily destroy an or in lane because he can avoid their skill shots and hence not get 100-0'ed.

However, against burst mages ( ) or assassins (), Yasuo gets deleted with no chance of retaliation. Wind Wall has been bugged since release to not block targeted spells at close range. This means that most burst mages can kill Yasuo as he tries to close the gap. (Even better if the burst damage doesn't need a projectile) Most assassins can also outright kill Yasuo before he kills them.

In the top lane, Yasuo simply gets out classed by most champions. Wind Wall is useless against an AD fighter, and Yasuo lacks the damage early to fight AP bruisers. , , and can all easily beat Yasuo in lane. Yasuo is essentially laning with only 2 to 3 abilities against them. Yasuo will struggle to even put a dent in their health bar, while these fighters will steam roll Yasuo with their high base damage on their abilities.

, , and can also win against Yasuo. Yasuo has a base 30 MR and extremely low base health despite being a melee champion. Yasuo simply can't trade back against these champions early game until he can get his core items.

That being said, when Yasuo does get a favorable match up, he gains an immense advantage. Against squishy ranged champions such as mini or , Yasuo can negate most of their damage and delete them with his burst. As well, Yasuo snowballs extremely hard due to his double crit chance passive. When he does get ahead, it is almost impossible then to defeat him 1 v 1.

I think most people just want Riot to tone down his double critical chance passive. Perhaps it can be tied to Yasuo's ultimate level to kick in at a later time in game. In turn, Riot would buff Yasuo's combat stats against melee champions so he doesn't get stomped every time.

Just a reminder; Yasuo was a lot more powerful when he was just released. Imagine higher health, more MS, stronger passive shield, longer shield duration, passive shield recharging every 4 Sweeping Blade, stronger IE, and 300 to 400 damage per Sweeping blade at level 1. (Guaranteed first blood) Current Yasuo is actually quite sub-par compared to the monstrosity Riot released almost 2 years ago. When people complain about Yasuo, they often do so with that bad memory in mind.

Nonsense. Full build Yasuo destroys everyone, especially if he has another champion that has knockups on his team. I've literally watched a full build Yasuo destroy a full build Malphite in seconds late game (alone). If Malphite can't withstand his damage than no one can.

I'm not complaining about him though, because he does take skill to play and he's very manageable before he reaches late game. His late game is insane for sure though. There are very few champions, if any, that can match his late game.

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Only reason people bitch about Yasuo so much is that he counters quite a few community favorite mid picks, like lux as an example. They yolo que into him, get destroyed and QQ about it. It's not that he is OP, he just counters many popular picks. xP

So you can't pick any skillshot mage mid if yasuo is open , because you will get extremely hard countered

Didn't we nerf Kass and other silence-inflicting champs because they were hard counters?

Hmmmmmm

First thing I did when crit was nerfed was build Trinity on him. I just laughed at the people saying "Trinity is bad on Yasuo wtf are you doing xd"

I never saw running crit runes in lane as a weakness. Give me 20% crit over 8.5 AD any day.

As for Yasuo's power level, he was pretty shit when they cut his base HP and MS, but they gave him an extremely strong buff in 4.21 that made him solid again. The shield change was also a decent buff for good Yasuo players and finally bugfixing his Q was also nice. No more buffs though please.

I will give you azir but I personally would choose any of the other 3 than yas, kat and zed

He's not fun to fight at all even if he isn't overpowered. If you don't play versus him perfectly in every aspect you could play perfectly, he's going to beat you down and take relatively no damage back with his combo of dashing in with his shield, chunking your health, and dashing away with his wind wall to take significantly less damage. He's frustrating to play against and it doesn't help he has an overloaded kit. Wait, how many passives does he have again?

Oh, look, I'm not the only person who enjoys facing Yasuo and views it as a challenge instead of some unstoppable force.

Well braum has the same sort of thing ( though it's not as wide ) and theres a lot of champs that have dodges and invincibility

mainly any champ that has a passive that saves them like aatrox or zac

but also champs like fizz and vlad

(then there's psuedo saves like bard ult)

no it's just dash Q dash Q R pentakill