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Yasuo broken - Or items?

Intrinsically·8/30/2016, 6:36:46 PM·1 votes·687 views

Full disclosure : I'm a Yasuo main with 666(teehee)k yasuo mastery points.

I honestly don't believe that Yasuo himself needs nerfs. Rather, it's three things that make a lot of champions, not just yasuo, pretty strong. The holy tridefecta of item 3078 item 3022 and Fervour of Battle. Each of these items is incredibly over tuned right now. Fervour and frozen mallet is core on Tank Teemo. Fervour and Triforce is core on tank ekko. Fervour and Triforce is core on Irelia. Hell, Triforce is even core on ezreal now. It's meant for bruisers, but it just gives so much damage that way too many people build it. Fervour gives a huge advantage to attack speed based tanks, as it raises their DPS significantly. Honestly, these nerfs are probably coming anyways - My only worry is that the champions hit with the nerf bat, such as yasuo, ekko and gnar, will not be able to recover after having both their items and their stats nerfed.

I wouldn't be so convinced if I hadn't seen this happen time and again before, such as sejuani during the cinderhulk meta. She got nerfed hard, cinderhulk got nerfed hard, and now shes a weaker gragas.

Please, even if you hate yasuo, try to see the problem here. It's not Yasuo, or ekko, or irelia. It's the amount of damage and utility in items and masteries such as triforce, frozen mallet and fervour of battle.

12 Comments

Sahn Uzal8/30/2016, 6:38:18 PM1 votes

Its the combination of Fervor, Triforce and the overloaded nature of their kits that make it as strong.

Beethoven8/30/2016, 6:43:32 PM1 votes

Tank yasuo definitely needs a nerf, hence the changes on the PBE that state

Last Breath (R) - secondary effect of increased bonus armor pen now only applies to Yasuo's critical strikes rather than all attacks.

Dynikus8/30/2016, 6:45:19 PM1 votes

tank teemo

wut

King of Mongoose8/30/2016, 6:53:38 PM1 votes

items

Word of the Lord8/30/2016, 6:58:57 PM1 votes

I don't actually believe Yasuo is broken but I ban him every game. I ban him because I don't trust any of the players on my team to know how to counter him. I don't trust any of the players on my team to know who to target with damage, or with cc, or who and how to peel. I ban him because I don't want a bad one on my team. I just can't find any reason not to ban Yasuo. I even ban him when I plan on picking a champ that counters him. He is too easy to snowball off of bad feeding players and take over a whole game. Low risk, high reward defined in one word. Yasuo.