Yasuo has been in the top 3 bans consistently since his release. When can we please have changes?

Mafia LeBlanc··3 votes·414 views

This is for the benefit of the Yasuo players as well as the people who have to vs him. Yasuo mains want to play the high mobility, high skill cap champion without him being banned every game. No one wants to have to play vs him because his kit is so incredibly frustrating and oppressive. Despite his high playrate, he still sports a > 50% winrate, which is absurd given his skillcap.

Here are the key things I find most frustrating:

-Constant, low CD, mana-free poke, that he is rewarded for spamming as fast as possible to charge his tornado. -Constant, low CD, mana-free mobility so extend his threat radius, especially vs melee or low-mobility opponents -Extreme ease in charging tornado, then able to sit on it like an Annie stun for quite some time - high range, wide skillshot with high damage and the strongest type of CC in the game

The one single thing I find most frustrating about him is that even if you stomp him out in lane, even if he plays horribly and goes 0/9, his enormous base stats, along with, once again, free and low CD farming abilities ensure that he ALWAYS can come back into the game and has the easiest wave clear in the entire roster, yet he also has amazing teamfight potential with tornado/ult combo, meaning he never really has a weak moment in the game except for Lvl 1.

Now, that being said, there is a lot of outplay potential in his kit, he is a high-energy, fun to play character, and he is a champ that can be one-tricked because of his skillcap. But, as the data shows, he is one of the most complained about champions since his inception. I'm tired of having to waste my ban on him because no other champion frustrates me in anywhere NEAR the same amount as this character, and I'm sure that people who love playing Yasuo would want to play him more consistently.

What can be done about the problem?

8 Comments

HaIlMonitor2 votes

His skillcap isnt even high. Its finish 2 items before the end of the game and stomp everyone.

The Minion hunt1 votes

lol this item alone counters him.item 3143 , plus his own reduction to crit, lol makes him a joke.

MorganFreemanBot2 votes

Yasuo is basically a meme at this point.

Piss-poor players dislike him because he can punish them for being retarded, and his moments of power are extremely visible. As such he's basically an overworked target of pent up aggression, despite being far from good and even further from being toxic or oppressive.

TitanAnteus1 votes

Someone gets it.

NoPaxt1 votes

Olaf and smash him...

TitanAnteus1 votes

He's only banned because he's popular. People want to play him and the enemy team knows that so they deny him.

It's not even because he's good.

Mafia LeBlanc1 votes

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He's only banned because he's popular. People want to play him and the enemy team knows that so they deny him.

It's not even because he's good.

That is not true. There are plenty of popular champs that aren't perm banned. Vayne, Trist, Ezreal, Janna, Thresh, Riven to name a few are also extremely popular champs that are never banned. Why? Because they don't have absolutely frustrating toxic kits.

TitanAnteus1 votes

None of them as popular as Yasuo. Also yeah a lot of the champs you mention also have relatively high ban rates.

High pick rate champs usually also have high ban rates. It makes sense.

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