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@Yasuo Mains, Do you think yasuo is in a good "balanced" place right now in this meta?

LICENSED HOOKER··2 votes·823 views

Yasuo /Ekko are my most favorite champions, i can play one and absolutely feed with the other just guess..

Yea... Anyway i don't know where to start to get better at him and believe me IVE TRIED, i used to spam Yasuo games for full 1-2 days at the end I'd just get frustrated and quit hes just so fun to play in bots or 3v3, then you go on SR and get rekted top by virtually a feather or mid by every AP laner out there on top of being camped.

And i know this because I've feed many of games as Yasuo top (** I don't say this to be proud, just honestly** ) and I've also camped a lot of mid lane Yasuo and i see how hard it is.

To me even though everyone hated Yasuo and some 100% still do, coming from a silver player that plays with golds/plats i rarely see a good Yasuo that can manage to not die to everything well except a friend "BestYasuoOnEarth" but i don't think that counts since he literally has Yasuo in his name.

Any mains got some tips and pointers for me? Cause i'd drop playing jungle in a heartbeat if i could just stop feeding with him

19 Comments

Drunk Tsundere2 votes

Yasuo is skilly. A good Yasuo player will always be able to do magic with him. An unskilled Yasuo player will mostly just feed.

So I would say yeah. He's in a good spot right now.

LICENSED HOOKER1 votes

Alright, i guess ill always be bad ;-;

Drunk Tsundere1 votes

Just practice. That's the only way anyone has ever gotten good at doing anything. Failure is a part of learning.

LICENSED HOOKER1 votes

hmm, i've never tried the int ones. Thanks!

Veraska2 votes

Yas is in a pretty good spot, I never liked him top personally (to many fighters thst just body him) but mid lane he does well against mages.

LICENSED HOOKER2 votes

Yea thats the way i feel, he gets bodied by feathers

Dedrius1 votes

Hes strong, mostly because even if you shut him down early he will just split push and still dump on anyone 1v1 if played well. A good Yasuo is almost impossible to deal with so yes he is extremely strong if played well, but you will look silly if you play him poorly.

LICENSED HOOKER1 votes

I usually do just enough damage to almost kill them but that little hp bar to get 1% tilted everytime, then the classic

"not even close yasuo"

Spicy Rice1 votes

Don't worry, just keep at it, and eventually you will be able to spam mastery icon after killing people

TyroneWatermelon1 votes

Yasuo is cancer,and should be deleted

Cubíx1 votes

So I do pretty poorly as yasuo in lane, I assume its due to now really knowing his kit fully and being a jungle main. But what I can do is team fight well as him so I can play yasuo well if I play him that doesnt require me to solo lane as him, I like to jungle or adc as him because I have a little bit of hand holding early on and then I reach mid and late game where I can play well.

ByakuyaTwerkami1 votes

I used to be utter trash with Yasuo. My friends would beg me not to play him because I'd just get super frustrated. Now he's one of my favorite champions to play. What helped me was practicing a LOT with intermediate bots, and watching Trinimmortal's own little Yasuo Guide.

IronwallJackson1 votes

I feel like Yasuo is currently in an alright place. He's on the stack of other "basically ok" champs that won't be seeing much, if any competitive play, but that's because the metagame doesn't especially favor him at the moment, and the loss of crit on Trinity Force hurt his bruiser build a lot, which was what allowed him to be a viable top laner.

As for tips, those are harder to give because I'm bad. Not that I'm unfamiliar with Yasuo, it's just that I can recognize I could be much better. Anyway, the best advice I can give is that managing your E is often the key to winning matchups, so you should max that over Q. That is, unless you're up against someone you do not want to engage on, in which case level your Q and focus on farming instead of fighting.

Spicy Rice1 votes

Actually, regardless of the matchup, you need to max e. The mobility you gain from leveling it makes it the single most important ability to level as yasuo, as without your mobility, you have 0 outplay potential

IronwallJackson1 votes

Let's put it this way. If you end up in a lane against, say, Xin, you don't want to use your E at all, because that makes you move towards him. Level your Q when it's unsafe to approach your opponent. It's also useful if your outplay potential is limited in some other way, such as an opponent whose kit doesn't give you much of a chance to outplay them, such as a Darius, Kayle, or Annie with her ult up.

Spicy Rice1 votes

The reason you don't level up q is because all it does is give you an extra 10 (or is it 20) damage on your q. It doesn't decrease the cool down, or give you a better scaling or anything.

Maxing e on the other hand gives you

  1. Lower cool down on the dash
  2. More damage on the dash
  3. Lower time between dashing on the same target.

By leveling your dash, you give yourself a better chance at survival as you will have greater opportunity to use your dash defensively.

IronwallJackson1 votes

I know the benefits of leveling your E over Q; I didn't start playing Yasuo yesterday. The issue at hand is that's primarily a harass/engagement tool and only a situational escape. It doesn't increase your chances of survival against the opponents I mentioned because more often than not, your dash won't bring you closer to the safety of your turret.

Spicy Rice1 votes

You don't need to get closer to your turret to be safe.

Example: you are against Darius in lane, and he's frozen the wave in the middle of the lane. You come up to cs, and he grabs you and slows you and is trying to all in you. So, what do you do?

Personally, I would dash through the Darius, into the minion wave, and use that to kite him and make him chase me. Now, if you haven't been leveling up e, you are gonna have a bad time as you will quickly run out of things to dash to.

But assuming that we have been maxing e, you can kit till the bleed wears off, and then dash through the Darius again, this time towards your turret, and to safety.

Spicy Rice1 votes

Personally I feel he is ok, but could use a (very) tiny amount of love after losing triforce.

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