Yas is just about as op as kat, akali, teemo, fizz, yi ect. in fact, a fed yi is more op than a fed yas, same with teemo, kat ect. Disagree if you will but if you think about it hes pretty balanced compared to other champs
Rhyto4 votesIt really just depends on how the player uses him, people call him OP because of poor teamwork, feeding, flamers, or the player has (I'm not trying to insult) a better way of playing by exploiting your weaknesses and even unexpected ganks, tower dives. All possibilities of how Yasuo can get fed and be as OP as many people think.
ThaRealDirtyDan3 votesI completely agree
IO zz3 votesKatarina is counterable with a stun/invulnerability move. Kayle is an easy example. Akali is counterable by anyone with MR. Galio is an easy pick. Same with teemo. Yi is countered by hard armor based champs like malphite. Yaso has yet to be countered like anyone on your list.
MackleDoge1 votesYou are joking right? Yasuo is a squishy champion. Want to counter him? Have a solid team composition that allows for a little bit of poke before fights to pop his passive shield and then treat him like any other damage carry in the game, CC and burst damage to delete him from the game. The best CC in the game is death, and I have yet to see a single person build Yasuo tanky and the only defensive item I've seen built on him at all is a GA (except for one game where the player built a mercurial scimitar because the enemy team kept CC'ing him and blowing him up).
Sai Aquarius1 votes
o,o this lady likes to get blown. I mean she beats him lol
Limakoko8081 votesA shield that regenerates like 3 times in 1 teamfight late game that gives around the same effective health as a warmogs. I think that he is far from balanced and that in any competent players hands is just too difficult to deal with. And yes it is a skill based game, but it seems that your own skill has to be a LOT higher than the yasuo player to beat him. And since you are matched with players around the same skill.... Yea yasuo is just too strong right now
MackleDoge2 votesAnd there is zero possibility that your opinion is based off of being dumpstered by Yasuo right? I love some people's attempts at balance reasoning. "like 3 teams", "around the same" so basically that's just pure conjecture, not seeing any evidence to any of that. People's inability to coordinate with a team doesn't make a champion too powerful, it just makes them terrible at team play. Any champion that you let engage in behavior that is perfect for their kit is going to wreck you, Yasuo, Riven, any ADC, every champion. Yasuo is easy to shut down in lane, easy to force that person in to catch up so they have to focus on farming instead of mid-game rotations, and can be handled with relative ease as long as your team actually uses some common sense in fighting against him.
Limakoko8082 votesAnd your point of team coordination is absolutely correct. This is the only way to shut him down, however if you play as yasuo you dont need the same help that your enemy does. His skillshot tornado isnt nearly as hard to get off as people make it out to be. I dont think thats very fair that a yasuo requires the enemy jungle to basically camp him. It offers no other choice for that jungler because yasuo will snowball otherwise.
MackleDoge2 votesYasuo does not mandate being camped. All you have to do is play aggressive pre-6 and focus on shoving the wave against him so he can't easy farm and has to deal with your harass.
Limakoko8081 votesActually no, this is coming from the times ive had yasuos on my team. I rarely play mid and when i do i have yasuo banned because of his shield that makes trading with him in lane stupidly hard. And yes it can be easy to shut him down early, with good synergy with ur jungler who has to camp ur lane. good luck getting a jungler to help you out this much in soloqueue. I watch yasuos on my team and they take zero damage when trading and then get their shield back really fast. I dont think its fair that yasuo gets to have incredibly mobilily and damage plus extra safety. His kit is just way too overloaded, period. Either nerf the shield or tone down his damage, otherwise he will stay too strong of a pick to be anything less than an absolute pick or ban
MackleDoge1 votesAgain, if you and others are not being able to trade against him, it's because you are doing it wrong, not because it's impossible. Poke him with an auto-attack to proc the shield, use your abilities to shove the wave while it's active, then harass as the lane is pushing against him. Repeat. It is not difficult to do, it just requires a player to know what they are doing and have solid mechanical sense. I'm sorry, but I'm just sick of people complaining about how overpowered a champion is when it's obvious that a significant portion of the champions power in the game comes from those people not doing the right thing to play against it.
Icy Hot Shoto1 votesI know someone who can play Yasuo in every lane as everything needed. Support included. He mains Yasuo, and not only that- I've seen him become legendary and get shut down in a 1v1 before with him and the one who shut him down being at full health.
Small list of champs who can counter him; Katarina, Fizz, Yi, Diana, Vi
Kat; Full melee other then Q. Fizz; Full melee other then Ult. Yi; Full melee, can build lifesteal. Diana; Melee, has attack that can go around his windwall. Vi; Melee
Now here's a small list of champs he counters completely;
Jinx, Ashe, Sona, Caitlyn, Teemo, Lulu, Nami, Nidalee.
Jinx, Ashe, Sona, Caitlyn, Nami; Windwall blocks every attack, including ult.
Teemo; Windwall blocks all but his ult.
Lulu; Windwall blocks all attacks, not sure about her polymorph though.
Nidalee; Windwall blocks her q and normal attack, does not block her ult. Unsure if it stops her pounce though.
Now see? Not hard to counter Yasuo. And if he doesn't have his windwall up, there you go. Ranged can have fun until his windwall is up. No offense, but Yasuo IS OP. But only if you don't know how to counter him.
And if you say Katarina can't defeat him, think; Katarina's only real ranged attack is her Q, and she builds AP. Not only that if his windwall is up, all you need to do is e, w, q if you have the time, then ult.
madmyster15661 votesin my opinion it dosnt matter who youre fed as yi gets 1-2 items and one hits almost all squishy champs, that is if he has the right first starting item its completely true and I can show you video proof if youd like its not bullcrap its a problem alot of people have and riot seems to not doanything because people like you say things like this yi's anoing and needs to be nerfed or removed haha i have alot of poeple to back me up with this as well:)
Enchanted Chiken1 votesYasuo's laning phase is pretty ridiculous but if he gets champions on the other team that are good against him like rammus or other hyper tanks he really is not a threat. He is like Riven who if he loses laning phase he is not very strong until he gets his core items so if that is stalled until the other team has enough items to win already he does not have a huge impact on the game.