Yasuo actually has more counterplay than you think

Cloud273··2 votes·284 views

I'm going to compare Yasuo to an assassin because I can. They're both squishy and do tons of damage. #DEALWITHIT. Anyways, an assassin can steath and point and click on you whenever they feel like it, and they usually have a SAFE way of bypassing your frontline (stealth, untarget ability, etc). The ONLY way Yasuo will ever touch you is if you're standing near your minions or your allies. If you don't want Yasuo to dash onto you, don't stand near your minions. It's that easy. Furthermore, he relies on a skillshot for damage (which has an EXTREMELY short range btw). And the only way he can ult you (not counting ally abilities) is by landing a skillshot (or by dashing onto you and using the knockup). Having said all this, the only part of Yasuo's kit that doesn't have counterplay is windwall. But the ability has a super long cooldown, so you have PLENTY of time to abuse him while he waits for it to come back up.

TLDR stop complaining about Yasuo. We have so many other champions/abilities in this game that have ZERO counterplay.

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Dark Nephthys1 votes

First you shouldn't compare Yasuo to an assassin because he isn't one so obviously he won't have some of the mechanics that assassins have and you shouldn't judge balance for that reason. That's like if I was trying to compare a Control Mage Anivia Ziggs to a Burst Mage Annie Lux which are different and can't really judge balance because of what they don't have over the other type of mage.

Also everyone has their own reason to hate Yasuo, though I'm guessing a lot of people do hate him for the wind wall. I personally hate him only for the double crit he gets and I find that is a really bad mechanic on him that should never be in a champions kit. Maybe if that was all his Passive was then I'd probably be ok with it but the fact that he also has a shield for his passive on top of the already strong double crit is why I hate him.

As for "Counterplay" on him...The counter play for him was suppose to be to CC him since he is squishy and can die quickly and the fact that hes melee so you can kite him. While you can some what kite him as long as you avoid your minion wave but the CC him and kill him isn't really easy to do since he generally builds 2 damage items into tank...Because once he gets those 2 crit items (like item 3046 item 3031 ) he can just build tank after that and still have a lot of damage thanks to 100% crit.

That's just my opinion on him though...While I do find his windwall and dashing really annoying...it's the double crit that pisses me off about him the most.

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