Concerning Yasuo

Gorrazin·Dec 11, 2018·3 votes·1,244 views

I've played a bunch of Yasuo at low elo. I don't think he is overpowered. I think he is a balanced champion but I do have some concerns. I feel like, as a Yasuo player, if I get even slightly ahead I'm too oppressive as in the game completely revolves around me with my ability to 1v9. My ability to hard carry a game is too great. Conversely, I believe that when i'm behind that I'm beyond useless to my team and become an over glorified minion. Is there a way to make Yasuo less oppressive when ahead but not useless when behind?

5 Comments

Frosted TipsDec 11, 20182 votes

I see your concerns and for me personally I like seeing that a few champions can still 1v9. Back in season 3 and 4 almost every role excluding support had champions that could 1v9 and I like that, but nowadays it seems more like if you have 1 bad player the singlehadedly lose the game for your team.

Sorry just a rant that your post made me think about, but I do agree that I believe Yasuo is pretty balanced, but when slightly ahead he is overbearing and when behind he is too easy to kill over and over.

GorrazinDec 11, 20181 votes

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I see your concerns and for me personally I like seeing that a few champions can still 1v9. Back in season 3 and 4 almost every role excluding support had champions that could 1v9 and I like that, but nowadays it seems more like if you have 1 bad player the singlehadedly lose the game for your team.

Sorry just a rant that your post made me think about, but I do agree that I believe Yasuo is pretty balanced, but when slightly ahead he is overbearing and when behind he is too easy to kill over and over.

It's nice to have outplay potential and have characters that can 1v9 the game, but in the grand scheme of things does that feel fair for all of the other players in the game? It doesn't feel good for the enemy team because they now have to focus the fed person or lose team fights, and it doesn't feel good for your own team because they never really get their moments to shine. Plus with the communities attitude towards losing a game is really disheartening. It basically boils down to "ff at 15". I enjoy comeback games. I love the feeling of trudging through trials and tribulations to achieve a win that should not have been possible. Well look at that... now I'm ranting. Thanks for the reply friend.[slayer-jinx-catface]

Frosted TipsDec 11, 20181 votes

If you are super fed and better than the other players, yes it is fine.

It doesn't feel good for the enemy team because they now have to focus the fed person or lose team fights

That is how it should be. Why focus the inting marksman when let's say 11/0 Riven is in the game?

it doesn't feel good for your own team because they never really get their moments to shine.

Why would that stop them from doing well? They can do well and still have a person on their team doing better than them.

Plus with the communities attitude towards losing a game is really disheartening. It basically boils down to "ff at 15".

That's the communities fault.

I enjoy comeback games.

This still allows for comebacks. The champions that 1v9 are also very susceptible to miss playing and getting themselves outplayed unless they are unhealthy at the time.

My problem with the game is that it doesn't feel like if I'm doing well it matters because if one person is doing really poorly the other team just auto wins. Also people don't know how to get carried which causes them to die more because they think they need to carry and they actually just lose the game for everyone else.

GorrazinDec 11, 20181 votes

You're assuming I meant extremes when I said "You have to focus the fed person or lose". I simply feel the damage in the game as it is almost nuclear. If you are ahead you should be strong but I think a flat damage reduction to everyone could make everyone feel more impactful. It doesn't have to be large either something between 2-5 percent would be nice. So teamfights don't end in 0.5 seconds.

Frosted TipsDec 11, 20181 votes

That is fine because that also doesn't reduce 1v9 potential. That is how it sounded in your previous comment.