An Idea to fix Yasuo

Linna Excel··5 votes·1,280 views

Yasuo has a bit of a problem right now. The short of it is too much of his power is budgeted for his passive skill. If he gets too much crit he's too powerful, if not he's too weak. So this is an idea to free up that budget for the rest of his kit.

Yasuo is supposed to be a wind champ. What is wind, what does it mean? It is speed and movement.

So here's the idea: make the passive scale off of AS and Move Speed more than just crit. Reward him for swiftness.

Here's how it would work: for every 10 move speed or 10% AS, yasuo gets 1% crit chance on his auto attacks. This might not be the doubling he's used to, but it would make him crit more than someone with a similar build, it'd give a mechanic that more reinforces who he is, and it'd free up his power budget so riot could make the rest of the kit better. Right now his passive is a bundle of stats sort of thing and if he wants to be healthy, he needs to move away from that.

12 Comments

kokopelli22 votes

First good yasuo idea ive seen

I Am Florg1 votes

I actually think yasuo is in a good place right now. I say don't fix what isn't broken.

DisasterSola4 votes

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I actually think yasuo is in a good place right now. I say don't fix what isn't broken.

except wind wall is one of the most broken abilities in the game o-o

wolfax5 votes

Mmm, gonna have to disagree with you there. Besides, it fits well with him and he's nowhere near dominating like he used to. Just because he has one strong ability doesn't mean he's a broken champion.

Cale0172 votes

Gonna have to disagree with you there. It fits well with him but for how low of a CD it can be it shouldn't be able to come from nowhere. He should have to expend the Flow he's built up to cast it, otherwise he's pulling it from nowhere.

What is he farting it out?

AHeroNamedHawke2 votes

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Gonna have to disagree with you there. It fits well with him but for how low of a CD it can be it shouldn't be able to come from nowhere. He should have to expend the Flow he's built up to cast it, otherwise he's pulling it from nowhere.

What is he farting it out?

> 26->18 second CD > low

You kill me G&B

I Am Florg2 votes

Yes it is a very powerful ability, but I don't see how that is inherently a problem. It fits his character and playsyle well. It also can be player around.

DisasterSola2 votes

[{quoted}](name=I Am Florg,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=tKwZoYL4,comment-id=000100000001,timestamp=2015-02-16T03:15:12.518+0000)

Yes it is a very powerful ability, but I don't see how that is inherently a problem. It fits his character and playsyle well. It also can be player around.

Because one ability should never completely nullify a majority of the skills in the game.

And no, wind wall doesnt break yasuo, but it makes him really bloody annoying to lane against and makes it annoying to do team fights.

JustMyBassCannon3 votes

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Because one ability should never completely nullify a majority of the skills in the game.

Welp, guess we need to get rid of every single Shield in the game. And every Untargetable effect.

Oh, wait, we're not that fucking stupid, are we?

DisasterSola1 votes

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Welp, guess we need to get rid of every single Shield in the game. And every Untargetable effect.

Oh, wait, we're not that fucking stupid, are we?

No, But clearly you are. The difference between a shield and yasuos wall is that a shield generally doesnt stop more than 400~500 damage. The exception being morganas shield, which has 300 base and eats all forms of CC. Yasuos wind wall has a long duration, and totally nullifies an infinite amount of damage while its up. This potentially renders entire champions (such as varus or anyone else with a wholly projectile based kit) useless as long as the wind wall is off cooldown because he can literally wait two seconds and pop it at the last second to avoid damage.

JustMyBassCannon1 votes

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No, But clearly you are. The difference between a shield and yasuos wall is that a shield generally doesnt stop more than 400~500 damage.

Not the only difference, if you start rubbing those two brain cells together instead of dropping them.

  • Shields can block any source of damage, whereas Wind Wall can only stop projectiles that pass through it.
  • I can only name one shield that has a longer cooldown than Wind Wall, and that would be Shen's ultimate. You might also technically include Kayle's ultimate, but that breaks the "can't stop more than [a flat amount] of damage" rule you're using.

And if you think there's a difference between Yasuo blocking 500 damage with Wind Wall, and Lux blocking 500 damage with Prismatic Barrier, you cannot be helped. Good luck, and may Zeus' lightning restart your brain some day in the very near future.

DisasterSola1 votes

... i wish people would use chronological veiw instead of ritoddit.

Theres no disadvantage for ritoddit people to veiw chronological posts, but people who use chronological posts have a large disadvantage because discussion posts never adress or qoute who the poster was...

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