Riot, any nerfs for yasuo?

Dr Poro··9 votes·765 views

I'm going to take a break from league until this abomination gets nerfed. He's just anti-fun to play against. I play League for fun, but I can't have fun with this champ in every single normal game. If I wanted to play fast-paced action game, I'd be playing something else than league. I liked this game much better when positioning and teamplay were more important than how often you manage to dash in half a second.

And, yes, I know that for the majority of the players (those who are in elo heaven: plat and below) don't have to deal with this issue, but when you're at diamond+, every Yasuo you see is like a nolifer who spent half a year doing nothing else than playing this one abomination. That's the worst thing about him: he rewards you for playing less than 1% of the content because he can win games with pure mechanics and 0 game knowledge. (Basically Riven²)

If you'd ask me how to nerf him:

  • Reduce the duration that his whirlwind is active. Atm it is 10 seconds, which means that you can't get near your lane minions for 10 seconds because he'll dash dash Q in your face and you die. Reduce it to 8 or 6 seconds.
  • Reduce his MS by 5. He's super mobile in lane because he can dash through minions at an insane speed. But even when not near minions, he outruns most champs because of his high MS and MS in his natural build.
  • Slightly reduce the speed of his dash. This'll probably be the most crippling for Yasuo players and will be most frowned upon but personally I would love this. He currently just dashes at me and out before I can even react. Making it a bit slower so I can atleast do an auto attack or spell during the dashes or see him coming before half of my health is gone.

24 Comments

luckmallory5 votes

Remove his double crit passive. Congrats, he is balanced now

KayleeT3 votes

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Remove his double crit passive. Congrats, he is completely garbage tier now

fixed

luckmallory1 votes

Why because he doesnt get to build one crit item and have 50 percent crit chance? lol its the same reason people hate tryndamere. He relies on RNG to win. Build crit like everyone else, congrats hes balanced

Abyssphere1 votes

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Why because he doesnt get to build one crit item and have 50 percent crit chance? lol its the same reason people hate tryndamere. He relies on RNG to win. Build crit like everyone else, congrats hes balanced

Eh I dunno. I'm all for getting rid of that ridiculous passive but I wouldn't suggest it without suggesting compensation too.

luckmallory1 votes

I made a post before about what to replace it with, and still keep the identity the same.

Passive- If Yasuo doesn't crit on his last auto or Q then his next auto or Q has a 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9% chance of criting on his next attack. This does stack and raises every 2 levels. So at level 12 if he doesnt crit his next attack has a 6 percent more chance to crit, the one after 12 percent, 18 percent, 24 percent and so on and resets when he crits.

Ramza Paradise2 votes

he's already been nerfed to hell the only thing that would make a difference (maybe) is a kit rework which is low priority for sure since older champs need it more

i know it's not a popular pick but i always like Heimerdinger vs Yas

Dr Poro3 votes

Nerfed to hell, that's why he's pick or ban in LCS. Always picked as one of the first picks even in comps with only enabler for his ult. In every game Yasuo is played, he's fed as fuck and if he loses it's because the rest of his team was terrible.

Ramza Paradise2 votes

not true at all, you just sound like you have blind hatred for him

i watched most of the qualifiers yesterday and yas wasnt banned or picked in quite a few games, lol.

Dr Poro2 votes

Okay, it's not as bad as kalista, but still, whenever he's picked, and he's picked a lot, he wins lane and snowballs and it becomes all about him carrying or their team losing. I'm fine with that, he's a carry champ, but he just succeeds way too often.

AtheosisX2 votes

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Nerfed to hell, that's why he's pick or ban in LCS. Always picked as one of the first picks even in comps with only enabler for his ult. In every game Yasuo is played, he's fed as fuck and if he loses it's because the rest of his team was terrible.

He has been nerfed heavily, but CertainlyT's abominations are hard to kill...

LadyRenly1 votes

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Nerfed to hell, that's why he's pick or ban in LCS. Always picked as one of the first picks even in comps with only enabler for his ult. In every game Yasuo is played, he's fed as fuck and if he loses it's because the rest of his team was terrible.

Pick or ban? Are you serious? Alistar, Sivir, Leblanc Lulu and Azir are probably more "pick/ban" than Yasuo..

Dr Poro1 votes

Leblanc? Does she still exist?

The others, yeah, they're also too omnipresent, but you know what? All of them have just received nerfs or will get nerfed in the next patch.

O Fallen Scholar1 votes

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Nerfed to hell, that's why he's pick or ban in LCS. Always picked as one of the first picks even in comps with only enabler for his ult. In every game Yasuo is played, he's fed as fuck and if he loses it's because the rest of his team was terrible.

Stay in elo hell.

Akali is SO HOT2 votes

git gud op

Mr Broken Wings2 votes

He is fine.

Arsames1 votes

Salty guy just lost a normal game to Yasuo at 1950 mmr rofl.

First of all, your ranked mmr has nothing to do with your normal mmr. Second of all, Yasuo has tons of counterplay, I love playing vs him, you should learn to play vs Yasuo, simple as that.

Dr Poro1 votes

What's wrong, Arsames? Salty because you can't get to diamanda anymore? In my normal games I usually play vs higher tier players than ranked (considering I have 20x as much normals than rankeds).

Troy2426211 votes

He doesn't need a nerf, he needs a light rework. His kit is too jumbled right now in my opinion.

Vier1 votes

Yasuo will always feel terrible to play against if he has the same abilities, especially with skill shot mages. I don't care if he's trash tier or top tier this champion is just sacking all of the fun when playing an immobile champion. No other champion have I ever felt like they start with a huge advantage over you.

Dr Poro1 votes

But if he's trash tier, he won't be played in every game.

SwapShadows1 votes

You must be really bad if you cant beat a yasuo in lane.

His laning got nerfed so hard that it's almost impossible to lose lane to him as a ranged champion.

Dr Poro1 votes

I must be worse than you. Why aren't you diamond yet?

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

Yasuo seems op only if you play immobile champions with many skillshots. He can't do anything vs tanky teams with cc and lockdowns, also vs other fighters who can manfight him. Try playing Yasuo top vs any bruiser. He is good top only vs champions who can abuse immobile melees like Lulu, Liss, Gnar, Teemo and so on. Yasuo vs Jax, Riven, Renekton, Fiora, Xin and so on is one sided matchup.

Toxic Samurai1 votes

I main Yasuo. yeh i know, HAte incoming. I may be bias but Yasuo in my opinion is probably healthiest melee carry you can find in the game. Think about it for a minute. Tryndamere's ult is so good that the rest of his kit has to be lackluster in order to be balanced. His kit is inherently broken. It's very difficult to balance him without removing his ult. Old Fiora was basically press r and someone dies. Warwick is basically suppress someone for 2 seconds while dealing a respectable amount of damage.(Yes i'm calling Warwick a melee carry cause he's very aa dependent). NOw that isn't to say they don't have counterplay because they very much do. Warwick's ult can be stopped through crowd control on Warwick. And old fiora... zhonas? Yeh that's not real counterplay. Forget about her. ANd so much more. It'll take forever to name them all. But the point is, what do all these champions have in common? They all have a single ability in their kit that is very hard to play counterplay without a specific item. You can't dodge it and so you're forced to spend gold on a specific item just to deal with them. Now on to Yasuo. WHy do I think he's a healthy melee carry. None of Yasuo's abilities is inherently broken in any way, but they synergize very well with each other in a way that you have to use all of them to effectively win any engagement. I'm not saying he's perfectly designed in any way and I'll get to that in a second. For Yasuo to win most engagements, he has to get 3 stacks of his q to really do any of his work or he's down one of his abilities so going in for the kill when he doesn't have his 3 stacks of his q is how you fight him. His mobility is very dependent on his positioning and the positioning of enemy units. So in a way you can predict where Yasuo is gonna dash and that's one of the ways you can outplay him. His wind-wall is very situational but if put down with the proper placement and reaction time, it can turn the tide of a fight drastically or save simply safe you or your teamates' life. But of course windwall can be made useless if you just position yourself right or just waiting it out. IT's a make or break ability. HIs ult on the other hand has a really low cooldown but it has a downside. It cannot be used on anyone except airborne units. This means that Yasuo or someone else has to knock you up to even use his ult or he's down an ability but if used, it can turn a fight easily. NOw this is where it gets iffy. Champions that can knock you up without any way for you to dodge or get out of can make it frustrating to play against Yasuo especially if his jungler is a knock up champion. Just pray the jungler and Yasuo aren't duo. Personally, I think Riot should just remove his ability to use ult on anybody his teamates knock up.

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