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Yasuo still needs nerfs

KyleTheConqueror··5 votes·823 views

Yasuo is that one champion in the game that is just about unstoppable when he gets at least 3 kills. If everyone thinks he isn't broken, let's explain why he is:

  1. passive shield. shield blocks all the cc damage. The shield's regen is too easy to recover, and it's not fair for someone to have a wind wall AND a passive shield.
  2. Passive crit. It's ludicrous. you nerf kalista where 90% of her damage goes to basic attacks, but you don't nerf yasuo's passive crit? It's not fun to play against a champion that snowballs just because the champion has high ratios.
  3. Dash. This isn't too bad of a problem, it's more of a mistreatment towards other champions. not only is Yasuo naturally mobile, with an almost free banishee's and bonus crit, but you give him the ability to be faster. He is faster than the wind, not light.
  4. 50% armor pen with his ult. Greeaaat, so a champion who builds crit already, gets to be able to deal more damage and ruin a tank's day... this is so balanced.
  5. HP. he starts out with hp close to a fighter jungler. shaco is barely 70 more than his base HP, and anivia is lower on that scale why? she's slower than a bronze 5 game.
  6. Q's AD Ratio. problem would be that if he is going to crit you anyway, why would his Q's ad give him more damage than he needs? 1600 crit chance is broken...
  7. cooldowns. Crit, speed, shield, and armor pen? Flipping trynd has longer cooldowns than this guy...

as for my conclusion, Yasuo is a champion that gets away with way too much. more than olaf, akali, shaco, fiora, mordekeiser, garen, etc., and it's time he was redressed with something that can be agreed by many to not make him a champ who is seen every other game.

4 Comments

KaminoX4 votes

I take it you must have just got smashed by a Yasuo XD

BeerOfRoot48432 votes

He did.

Kêndo3 votes

Or instead use your cc

DarthSpectrum3 votes

I can't tell if this post is sarcasm or if OP is actually this misinformed.

  1. Yasuo's passive shield doesn't block CC. It is fairly decent early and mid game, but it only blocks around ~500 damage at level 18 and only lasts 1 second. 500 damage is a considerable amount; however, at level 18 with item 3087 and tier 2 boots, it will take Yasuo 13 seconds to gain his shield. At level 1, it takes closer to 20 seconds or higher to gain an less than 100 HP shield.

If you cannot land an ability in 20 seconds, you will struggle with every champion in this game.

  1. Yasuo has a 10% critical damage reduction, and an additional 25% on top of that on his Q. He received the Kalista treatment before Kalista did.

  2. Yasuo's E CD scales with rank. Late game his is fast, but early game he isn't that difficult to hit with a skill shot. (Unless he dashes behinds minions of course)

  3. It is 50% bonus armor pen on a conditional skill. You can either avoid the knock up or cleanse yourself. Most tanks get base ~70 to 100ish armor (although some may be from their passives), so Yasuo is really only shredding 25% of a tank's armor at best if the tanks have around 200, or 0% if they don't build armor.

  4. HP? Are you kidding me. Yasuo has one of the lower base HP in the game. He ties with most mages such as Syndra or Annie. Some mages such as Azir even have slightly higher health. It is probably the item 1055 and the Defense masteries that are confusing you.

  5. Q is just his AA. I don't know how this is difficult to get across, it does exactly what his AD value shows plus 100 more damage at rank 5. To compensate, Q damage is further reduced when it crits.

  6. His cool downs are pretty low. Wind wall has ~26 seconds and his ultimate around 30.

Yasuo may be played a lot, but his win-rate is rather mediocre. Unlike Garen, Mordekaiser, or Fiora who constantly stays above 50%, sometimes even 55% win rates, Yasuo hovers around 48%. Search him up on Champion.gg Further more, the average Yasuo player has 90 games on average played on him to achieve 48%. Most people start at 42% or even lower. People play Yasuo because he is fun to play, yes his kit is loaded, but he is not that strong.

Play Malzahar , Annie , or Azir mid against him and you will see what I mean. For top lane, almost any fighter can beat Yasuo.

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