Yasuo E improvement
Now that we are balancing marksmen and crit items, I believe it's also a good time to take a look into Yasuo's E and do some improvements to make it more smooth. I am not sure how the cd mechanism is implemented in League, but I believe server maintian the game state. So the round trip latency and server tick rate (I am think we must have interpolation, but for extrapolation, I turned it off) play important roles in consistent fast E combo for yasuo. And I am not able to do it constantly even after some practice.
I believe we could not solve this problem by buffering e while you are still in e's animation. But the similar approach for Riven might work.
It does not says exactly how it is solved but I used to do 2 right clicks (3 for the 3rd q) after Riven's q to cancel animation. In this case it might be a little bit slow but more consistent and won't fail. After the change I only right click once and everything feels good.
Above are all my educated assumption and it's not garanteed to be 100% correct. But I believe it's not the speed of smashing keyboard prevent people doing fluent e combo. So please let me know if there is any mistake. And please don't hate Yasuo too much.
======================================================= Here is some other information might be useful for this issue.
Let me talk about my equipments first. My network latency is about 60 (I cannot improve it any better right now). Monitor is 144 hz. 1000 hz polling rate for mouse and keyboard. Keyboard has roughly 500 hz scan rate. So I believe my total latency is something like 60 + 7 + 1 + 2 = 70+ ms.
And I do fast e by e through a minion, then buffer the right click command, then spamming e. I believe this is the way how most high elo Yasuo mains play. (I slow down their vod and see only one right click and tons of keyboard key spam. You can tell the difference between keyboard spam sound and mouse especially they are using a non-clicky mechanical keyboard (red/black/sliver switch)). And I also believe it's the best way since by spamming e instead of using muscle memory for the timing, you don't have to worries about the cd diff in lvl 4/5 E or your movement speed during e animation or latency.
When I spamming my e I can see feedback like "You can't use the ability now." or "the ability is not ready yet." which means I pressed the e when I am in my previous e animation or during the cd. I believe I can spam e key at least 8 times in 1 sec (I could spam 120+ times in 10 sec on a calculator which means I can press every 80- ms. Most of my friend can have this speed and I should be able to do it better if it's 7 seconds duration for obvious reason). Although Cherry switch is different than a calculator but I believe I can do at least 8 times in just one sec (lots test tools online).