"We can't nerf Lee Sin because of community backlash"

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There's on major thing you overlooked regarding Yasuo's ult and as someone who plays him I feel the need to correct you: Yasuo's ult has something that only one other uses, his ult requires setup. You either must have landed two of your Qs on nearby enemy minions, or an enemy champion to use his knockup to allow the ult, or have a fellow champion charge in for you. Unlike both Nocturne and Vi, you don't just point and click and it happens, but you must either land your Q or have someone else send them up.

P.S. Every tried to ult Lucian as Yasuo? It's friken impossible.

Because pressing Q three times is hard to do on a low cooldown skill with high range for the final Q and a wide hitbox. In most cases I'd go so far as to say a bullshit hitbox considering I've been caught in the tornado with more than a Teemo between the edge of the tornado and I. That isn't very hard to set up, especially given how low the cooldown on his Q is.

Ever tried to ult Yasuo as Lucian? He shoves his dick through the Wind Wall just to taunt at you behind it.

I'm sorry, but I don't care what anyone has to say, or how weak he becomes if he DOES get caught in some CC. He's getting too much for too little.

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Um, no, not at all. Any small mistakes he makes will be severely punished. If he gets neutered early game he can't get back unless the game ends with everyone at full build.

Except that he can just QQQR for a teamfight in the early game then dash back out with up two two shiels and a godmodded wind wall to protect him while his team finishes the job he started off of just his ult. He doesn't have to contribute after that beyond hanging back and poking, and can very easily get fed off of assists to regain his power during the mid game going into late.

Thing is, Yasuo can only dash through enemies so he has to be aggressive to be useful. Being aggressive means getting targetted by CC and he is a sustained fighter meaning he needs to stick to targets. Yes, a fed Yasuo is a complete terror just like any duelist fighter or assassin but that's why you abuse the fact that his early game is shit. He has no other forms of protection other than his wind wall and his shield because he is probably the squishiest fighter there is.

Yes, so give the guy who has to be aggressive to be useful up to three methods of damage mitigation or completely stopping it, give his sustained damage so much burst that he doesn't have to deal it for more than a second or two, and give him the ability to provide two different CC effects as well. And make it so that he only needs two items to crit every single time he right clicks or Qs someone when ADCs, who's kits revolve around the same concept, have to build three items to guarantee critical strikes and give up on damage to build that third crit chance item when he can just keep right on trucking on damage items.

Do you know why Yasuo gets a free shield on ult? Because mid-late it doesn't even matter anymore cause that shiekd will trigger and dissipitate faster than you can land after you finish your ult. The shield has been nerfed numerous times, it's not as big as when SKT Wolf killed the entire enemy team.at the Nexus with a sliver of health left.

Except it isn't hard to QQQR, then use the shield to buy you have a second as you E/Flash away to get some distance, then block whatever's flying at you with Wind Wall so you make a completely free escape.

Nocturne is normally a bruiser meaning he is tanky. Vi is also very tanky. Jarvan is also another tanky bruiser. They are all extremely tanky bruisers and can take a beating but unless Yasuo is fed and rushed BT while the enemies don't have their own core items yet, then he has no means of surviving other than to hope that he doesn't die instantly during and after ult.

Nocturne isn't normally a bruiser, he's normally either a high damage assassin or a fighter. He only builds bruiser if he's falling behind. Vi is tanky, but she isn't getting as much free damage mitigation for diving someone as Yasuo has access too, even with her passive shield. She isn't blocking the next damaging ability or negating the next several that come at her. Jarvan isn't either. Building tanky is what allows them to survive the engagement, but it's stacked in Yasuo's favor when he can build more damage and mitigate so much that he doesn't even take any on his way back out before his team crashes down on you.

And I'd like to see you do a 3-5 man Yasuo QQQR Combo in any Elo above Silver. It is not as easy as you think.

It's much more about where the enemies are than where you are. Late game that's not hard if they group up... which is the standard late game strategy.

Even fucking Yi has damage mitigation and sustain in the form of his W. Trynd has it in his Q and ult. I could keep going on.

Yi is reducing the damage dealt, not completely cancelling it. Trynd risks dying the moment his ult ends, and it's easy to make him waste it.

You can learn his combos just like you can learn Azir's combos but it doesn't change the fact that it is very difficult and tedious to execute them unless you were extremely fed early in which case any champion is easy to play as.

E four times through a minion wave then E through the enemy laner to deal maximum harass damage. Do so with full flow and it's free harass on them. Q twice on minions and then send a third Q at the enemy laner to poke them. Please excuse me while I get try to process how insanely difficult it is to press the same button multiple times. Azir's combos require careful positioning of both his soldiers and himself. Yasuo's combos require something with a red health bar to be somewhere nearby. They aren't the same, and unlike Yasuo, with Azir you get punished by losing your ability to escape or mitigate damage with his shield if you make a bad positioning choice. Yasuo can get caught out and still get away between his high mobility and two different ways of negating damage from chasing enemies.

Nami's ult actually cc's longer and more efficiently if anybody on the enemy team buys tenacity.