Yasuo really needs a rework
I'll list every point that make him completly OP/BROKEN:
- he can easy engage/chase/dodge/escape with his dashes spam, cost free
- he can insta stun with his tornado (yes INSTA on close range) many other champ similar abilities require a casting time
- he can cast this tornado every 2 seconds, cost free
- he doubles crit (HUGE ADVANTAGE / I'm ok with that, it's an assassin...)
- he cancels any attack every 20 sec, cost free (not huge, but he already has Double Crit wich could be considered as a passive...)
- he can ult very often, cost free
- he has the most powerfull defensive ability of the game, invincible wall, cost free and gets wider every level. (HUGE ADVANTAGE / NOT OK AT ALL)
- he can come back in any game even when shut down from start, no other champ can do that so easily!
So basically he his POLYVALENT, can do more than any other champ, is never useless even in a bad game, and all this for free. No mana/energy (HUGE ADVANTAGE).
So he has 3 huge advantages and has NO DRAWBACKS balancing this. The only one is him being squishy (as every other assassin if you think about it...), this is it...
This "thing" is an anomaly that REALLY must be reworked:
- His wall should be replaced by an offensive spell... IT'S AN ASSASSIN, NOT A SUPPORT ! (To defend himself he already has Passive / Dashes / Tornado, that's enough !)
- His spells should cost mana or energy
- His tornado need a short casting time (like Jinx's Zap or Jana's Tornado)
- His utimate activation range should be melee range only, or short range like his katana hits... not more (Melee champ => Melee range)
The only way he can be countered is by a full synchronized team focusing him and shutting him down from start to the end, because otherwise he can come back at any moment.
This can work in ranked with your full friends team, but this does not work in normal or solo queue. This champ DOES unbalance every SOLO queue games at a point that I now completly refuse any game vs him.
The last game I had vs him, I won my lane against him, killed him several times in early... he still carried the whole game by himself (his whole team was completely useless, no kidding) We had decent top/bot, and a good jun... didn't help AT ALL.
I love hard games, I play every video games in hardest modes, I play Jinx mid/top/jun (even supp xD) because I like it difficult, so I'm never complaining when I loose hard games vs other champs, but this... NO!
I'm saying all this because I want to play against a fair Yasuo and enjoy fighting against him as I do with any other champ. Actually it's 0 fun.
This joke has to stop!