Why Yasuo is Completely Balanced

Leafri·11/29/2016, 6:10:02 PM·10 votes·5,113 views

I have been playing Yasuo for years now, i have a lot of experience playing and playing against Yasuo. I even have mastery 7 with him. I can honestly say that he is potentially the most balanced champion in League of Legends. I know what you guys are thinking, with the huge circlejerk that yasuo is op and cancerous. I can totally understand why some people would think that, most players are extremely low elo, and just don't know how to play against a champion like Yasuo. I have played Yasuo at high elo for years now, and i can say an unskilled yasuo player is one of the easiest players to beat with anyone. If you don't know how to play Yasuo, you will struggle, that's just a fact. Anyone who says Yasuo takes no skill is just quite frankly an idiot who has no idea what they're talking about. In my opinion, i would say Yasuo should be buffed. There are a lot of matchups that feel completely useless as Yasuo. For example, have you ever played Yasuo vs an Annie? It's impossible to do anything against her, and you will be destroyed. A bronze Annie player could destroy a Masters Yasuo player, which is not okay. A champion who can be completely shutdown so easily cannot be considered unbalanced at all. The only changes Riot should make to Yasuo is buffing him. You can see from my profile that even though i am clearly amazing at Yasuo, i too struggle to win games even though i deserve to win them. I would also like to point out that i am currently Plat 4, at one point diamond, so i know what im talking about.

55 Comments

Ralanr11/29/2016, 6:14:38 PM8 votes

You only give one reason why he's balanced and that's because he gets trashed by Annie, a champion that heavily counters high mobility champions.

Lux HD11/29/2016, 6:33:40 PM8 votes

Yasuo is just bad champion design.

He's an assassin with nearly spammable hard CC, spammable dashes, and ridiculous survivability.

Windwall is cancer, but it would be bearable if they realized his passive is busted AF, and either got rid of the shield or got rid of the double crit.

khorney11/29/2016, 6:12:58 PM5 votes

ohh yes having infinite dashes and having a broke asss windwall makes him balanced and a op passive....gtfo

Beyite11/29/2016, 6:24:09 PM4 votes

honsestly man, i think everyone here has you wrong. i mean you gave them an opinion only on annie, but to completely honest: they aren't monkeys and can use their brains to figure out why yasuo is balanced. unless they actually all are brainless idiots, then you shouldn't listen to what they say about your idea. after reading more of these comments, im starting to think you all are brainless retards. anyways, good luck with your feedback on buffing yasuo. he is my favourite champion that i have never played before anyways.

Ladrac11/29/2016, 7:27:32 PM4 votes

Dude I just checked your match history and I dont know why you said you re amazing with Yasuo...I mean, you die way too much, even if you do manage to take kills. Also, you had pretty bad scores like 1/6/0 and so on... And you cant prove that you re right by saying that you re platinium...even diamonds can be wrong. Everyone can be wrong.

Primaquarius11/29/2016, 6:20:50 PM3 votes

Too long didnt read

Also, Yasuo can be countered as long as youre paying attention to his position and how many allied minions are next to you.

Requiemsfire11/29/2016, 6:17:17 PM3 votes

Let's just ignore the fact that Yasuo vs Zilean TwistedFate the match up is completely one sided.

Kilanost11/29/2016, 7:04:47 PM3 votes

Ive always felt that the larger issue with Yasuo, aside from his ridiculous wind wall and dashes, is what he gets for free with his free crit chance. Yasuo's free crit chance also indirectly gives him FREE LIFESTEAL (More crits = more life stolen) as well as opens up two item slots for other things that champions would normally need to use to reach 100% crit. He is effectively walking around with a 7th item just from his passive. I truly dont think this was considered when riot's balance team worked on Yasuo. Thats just been my 2cents for a while. I wonder if a lot of these balance complaints (again, ignoring the wind wall and mobility) would get better if riot gave him a penalty to his lifesteal to balance this.

CoIpsum5/27/2017, 7:46:10 PM2 votes

I like when people respond to these threads with Yasuo being an "assassin" when it clearly states on his champions page that he's a fighter. You know, people like... Tryndamere MasterYi XinZhao Olaf Renekton Riven Pantheon just to name a few. They're people who deal good damage while also being kind of off-tanky, which is why Yasuo has his shield, even though it's basically worthless until lategame since it lasts like a second. And windwall lasts four seconds, moves forward quickly and then slowly overtime, meaning you can walk around it, through it, or wait it out instead of unloading all your abilities into it like a monkey. If Yasuo's an assassin then why does building him with only pure damage items like Zed or Rengar make him basically useless? He's not an assassin, not since they made shiv useless on him, he's a fighter, that's why he has his shield, even though it's worthless. His double-crit is legit the thing that balances him the most, would you rather Yasuo's build juggernaut with a wall on a 10.8 second cooldown and do 2000 burst damage to your carries with an easy rotation of Autos qs and titanic hydra? I certainly wouldn't since he can have 4000 health while doing so without criting.

A FLUFFY BUNNY 111/29/2016, 7:09:42 PM2 votes

I do NOT play Yas but i am not afraid of him at all. There are a lot of champs that counter him. I dont think his ult should kill more then one champ at a time but other then that the only thing i find annoying is his shield.

Sharp Chedarr11/29/2016, 6:31:58 PM1 votes

Smfh when are people going to learn. What do you expect to get out of a pro Yasuo thread? Like honestly???