Two easy steps to nerfing yasuo to an acceptable state without absolutely gutting him.

HateDaddy··2 votes·366 views

Make his auto attack range 125

Increase his ults cooldown by 20-30 seconds.

Yasuo is largely a problem in lane phase only. In teamfights, though he can be good, it's often the most underwhelming aspect of his game because exhaust ruins his ult and he's easy to focus down.

There, you've made him less consistent in lane and you didn't hurt him in any meaningful way that would harm his designs core intentions.

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Sona x Rubick1 votes

No, i don't know about that AA range reduction but that ulti cd change won't fixe anything

The problem right now with yasuo ulti is that it allows him to go to the backline so easily just by getting an ally having a knock up.

Riot said that the difference between skirmishers and assassins is: -skirmishers can kill tanks -skirmishers can't go to the backline like Fiora Tryndamere

but yasuo is able to do it because he gets a 1300 range blink followed by a hard cc and other stuff

the low cd is here to compensate the fact that yasuo has troubles to trigger his ulti, but it's not hard if you get an ally with a knock up or knock back.

Remove his ability to ulti on allies, or reduce the range of his ulti to 600

HateDaddy1 votes

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No, i don't know about that AA range reduction but that ulti cd change won't fixe anything

The problem right now with yasuo ulti is that it allows him to go to the backline so easily just by getting an ally having a knock up.

Riot said that the difference between skirmishers and assassins is: -skirmishers can kill tanks -skirmishers can't go to the backline like Fiora Tryndamere

but yasuo is able to do it because he gets a 1300 range blink followed by a hard cc and other stuff

the low cd is here to compensate the fact that yasuo has troubles to trigger his ulti, but it's not hard if you get an ally with a knock up or knock back.

Remove his ability to ulti on allies, or reduce the range of his ulti to 600

His problem isn't in teamfights because simply exhausting him during his ult basically negates his ability to kill a soft target. And the soft target is only in immediate danger following yasuo coming off ult but at that point, he has one dash per champ and is a melee champion in the middle of a team, aka easily focused and beaten down. I think ulting off allies is what makes him unique and gives him funcationality to be something other than a cheesey split pusher like Trynd.

And his ult isn't unreliable in lane, it's easy to proc whenever he wants since he can dash/Q you in melee range, which leaves you almost no way to really outplay it if you're melee/short ranged. I don't think that's a bad thing but I think his ability to do it so frequently to the point where he's basically using it to simply harass you out of lane is a problem.

Aerothal1 votes

or, just go to the folder with all the champs, find Yasuo, hit DELETE. There would be more happy players than unhappy ones, guaranteed!

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