Why does it seem like Yasuo has so much favoritism

Jefftiffy··5 votes·453 views

Not single one of his gameplay mechanics has anything that thinks about the other player.

He can dance from side to side in his wind wall to negate any ranged champ even in close range.

His ult is one of the highest up times in the game with a huge effect (gapcloser and aa enchancer) with an algorithm to place him outside of tower range if it can while also doing the damage last to prevent him from taking tower aggro if he is in it.

His passive was never nerfed when it was made possible for him to hit 100% crit chance with just 2 items without runes.

His MS is really high (345) for someone who is one of the most mobile champs in the game as long as he is around enemies thanks to his E which can also be used to set up an AoE ult and doesn't do reduced damage with the combo.

Riot you can't give him everything otherwise you are stuck with what he is right now. He is either really good or garbage with no inbetween.

He really needs his E Q combo to do like 75% damage while having his ult have a longer CD (30s CD with a 15s active on passive like wtf). His ult late game should at the very least be on a 45s CD with a 10s active). Honestly his ult needs to be made 80/55/30 -> 90/70/50 (still really high uptime late game considering most ults are 60s+ CDs) so he can't just kill you and have it up to kill someone else before you even respawn.

If you don't want to go there then nerf his E Q combo damage and his E damage should no longer get bonus damage but have slightly higher base damage and make his windwall have a cast time where it doesn't spawn from him but instead spawns where it normally would rest from him but after a small cast time of like .5s.

You can't tweak his raw numbers right now. You have to mess with his kit. His kit is the problem not the raw numbers. And until that is addressed he can never be balanced.

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Baunjo3 votes

Yano who my favorite mid laner to gank is when I play jungle? None other than Yasuo who has very situational mobility, arguably the MOST situational mobility. the movespeed only helps generate his passive and make up for otherwise poor mobility

Jefftiffy2 votes

For those of you down voting tell me when he has ever not been vaible. Since his release he has never had a point where people have not used him. He has always been good and is honestly one of the most toxic champs in this game in terms of counter play. There is almost none and his kit has not been addressed. In fact the counter play (aka counter picking) is slowly going away due to the prevalence of skill shots over on targets and other non projectile abilities.

Shahamut1 votes

He had some time in the sun (LCS) when he was brand new. There is a reason you do not see a ton of mid lane Yasuo right now... You mostly see him top if at all, but with Maokai, Ekko, and now Irelia and Jax available, you wont see him there much either. At least I haven't seen him in the games that I have been watching.

Yasuo is a high skill cap high risk high reward champion. Im still trying to learn him. Lissandra beat me pretty readily today. I beat Yasuo as Skarner, so I mean, he isn't too op if you ask me :P

Mr Broken Wings1 votes

I dont know, every yasuo I face when I jungle or go top goes 0-10 and ragequits, maybe just my luck. I also disagree with the " he has no counterplay" part. he interacts a lot with you, the only thing that can be considered aids is the windwall and even that has counterplay. He is fine, fun to play and generally you play him because you like him not because he is ridicilously broken like tanko or some shit. Personally I rather would have a yasuo in the enemy team then one in my team, his midgame is ridicilously weak if he didnt get fed in the early 3-5 levels and if you know how to play the game you will not feed him that early. He is on the weak side at the moment, people still use him because mobility champions are fun for a lot of people. I mean if you have the decision of playing malphite or shen or yasuo, who wouldnt pick yasuo? I mean a lot of people dont like being afk till 6 and pressing r like malphite or some other binary champions.

Jefftiffy1 votes

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I dont know, every yasuo I face when I jungle or go top goes 0-10 and ragequits, maybe just my luck. I also disagree with the " he has no counterplay" part. he interacts a lot with you, the only thing that can be considered aids is the windwall and even that has counterplay. He is fine, fun to play and generally you play him because you like him not because he is ridicilously broken like tanko or some shit. Personally I rather would have a yasuo in the enemy team then one in my team, his midgame is ridicilously weak if he didnt get fed in the early 3-5 levels and if you know how to play the game you will not feed him that early. He is on the weak side at the moment, people still use him because mobility champions are fun for a lot of people. I mean if you have the decision of playing malphite or shen or yasuo, who wouldnt pick yasuo? I mean a lot of people dont like being afk till 6 and pressing r like malphite or some other binary champions.

The thing is if he brings him jungle or top he negates his most useful aspects. Jungle removes his interaction with range champs completely and he offers nothing to ganks until 6 unless the enemy lane is pushed out really far. Top he is against mostly melees with few to no ranged attacks and often like to all in or trade really heavy then back out. In mid he counters about 75+% of champs and doesn't really fall off. So yes he should be losing quite frequenly when played top and jungle because he is playing his weaknesses and not his strengths.

The thing is you can't afford to send a melee mid unless they can definitely beat Yasuo and most melees that can are kind of immobile in comparison and die easily to ganks in mid lane.

Mr Broken Wings1 votes

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The thing is if he brings him jungle or top he negates his most useful aspects. Jungle removes his interaction with range champs completely and he offers nothing to ganks until 6 unless the enemy lane is pushed out really far. Top he is against mostly melees with few to no ranged attacks and often like to all in or trade really heavy then back out. In mid he counters about 75+% of champs and doesn't really fall off. So yes he should be losing quite frequenly when played top and jungle because he is playing his weaknesses and not his strengths.

The thing is you can't afford to send a melee mid unless they can definitely beat Yasuo and most melees that can are kind of immobile in comparison and die easily to ganks in mid lane.

He is really easy to gank, there are also a lot of mages that destroy him.( swain for example, he is also really strong right now) He is surely not too strong right now, more the contraire.

Aptest1 votes

he interacts a lot with you

yes but how do i interact with HIM?!

specifically, when he has neither shield nor CC?

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