we'd better be careful with all these yasuo threads

Except braum is tanky and pretty much doesn't takes damage during it after 10 minutes. He can also protect his adc during it so you can't fight back neither.

Yasuo's windwall is strong, but braum's ability to move with it makes it much more powerful than people give it credit for.

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Free is not a cost either. Plus Braum's shield has a smaller hitbox and only functions as damage reduction and not a full on removal since Braum still takes some damage.

Oh, and the most important thing, braum is not a fighter/assassin.

The smaller hitbox is irrelevant because he can cover more ground (side to side, back and foward) than Windwall. Braum can easily itemize for CDR (compared to Yas) to have it up more frequently, and worst of all, it also makes Namims ult irrelevant (like the #1 point brought up on boards when discussing windwall lol)

Braum takes damage but completely negates your intended target, and he's a tank - that's exactly what he wants to do; absorb damage.

Windwall being completely defensive spell literally goes against being an assassin, so I don't see how this is a benefit when his W could've been a more offensively geared spell to deal damage, lol.

I said Yasuo posses some of Azir's traits, but he doesn't posses nearly as many as azir.

"Yasuo has hard engage"

Not very true. Hard engage is like Malphite's Q or shurima shuffle. Aatrox Q if it wasn't easy as fuck to interrupt. His engage is extremely telegraphed (Directed by minions). It's very easy to CC him during it. He has engage as best, but it's much more of a follow up engage.

Yasuo doesn't posses massive lane bullying past level 1/2. I do agree his level 1-2 are too strong and it shouldn't be that way. His ability to trade isn't as amazing as people make it out. It's strong when it shouldn't be (early level 1-2), but the shield's flow comes back after around 15 seconds and his windwall cockblock has a huge downntime. Playing around them are perfectly possible. Outrading him doesn't causes him to heal back to near health neither (See, renekton and tryndamere) and he doesn't pokes you from bullshit ranges (Azir, Caitlyn) with you having no way to touch him.

Hyperscaling: He does, and I repeat, he posses some of Azir's traits, not all of them.

That Q range of 3 teemos is very high, can totally poke your ass down while you're under tower... No, not really. He doesn't siege. I also don't know why did you talk about windwall during this section.

Once again, Yasuo's E is extremely telegraphed and easy to predict. CCing him mid dash (not after it, he can windwall some of the cc that way) is very easy to do and his mechanics make him very predictable.

Except Yasuo isn't a statstick with sustain like renekton and he relies on minion positioning for a way out.

All fed skirmishers can 1v1 tanks. Your points above have logic backing them up, but not this one. Skirmishers are dpsers, they naturally are good 1v1ers. Any skirmisher can 1v1 a tank. Tanks aren't meant for 1v1s anyways.

Being overloaded alone isn't a justification for nerfs, and even if he did have too many strengths, he would certainly be abused by the lcs. He isn't beating the living fuck out of ranked Qs like kennen or Jayce (Irelia, yi, GP, hecarim earlier this season) neither. They should prolly nerf his windwall duration down (2.75-3 seconds I suggest) and tone his levels 1-2 down, but he doesn't needs any big nerfs.