When you realize Yasuo was released over 2 years ago...

All the stats must be going through denial too since they agree with me and have since Yasuo was released. Yasuo is a noob stomper. If you're having tons of trouble with Yasuo, it's because you're a noob. But hey, go ahead and pick Yasuo against me if you think he's so OP. I'll happily crush you for picking a weak-average champion you don't know how to play.

F*ck this Slamurai guy. I can't stand someone that, after a well-reasoned, irrefutable disertation as "2 years ago and Yasuo is still broken as fuck." is, just sits down, takes the keyboard, hacks every LoL-related website and server in the world, manipulates statistics so they show whatever he needs them to show and then mentions those clearly hacked statistics in a comment.

Typical Yasuo main things.

Almost 280k atm. As for Yasuo tricks, playing him is far more about decisiveness and decision making than it is about fancy mechanical tricks. However, there are a few things every Yasuo should know about him mechanically.

The first is your Q: it applies on hit effects to the first target struck but not any other targets, which means that you can poke your lane opponent with Q through a minion and not draw minion aggo. Your Q is also treated as a basic attack for the purposes of CC, meaning that your Q will canceled during the animation if hit by any CC that prevents auto attacking. Think Blinds, stuns, knockups, displacements, suppresions, etc. This is for your straight line Q casts only, your Q will still go through no matter what if used in a E-Q combo or if you have your tornado ready. Keep this in mind when playing against champions like Riven, Udyr, Alistar, etc. Who can CC you with 0 warning. If you start your Q and they CC you, your Q will do no damage, you will gain no Q stacks, and the CD will be refunded. The only exception to this is Amumu's ultimate; don't ask me, ask Riot.

The second is your ult, both when and how to ult. 1 important thing every Yasuo should know is to now ult too early, either in 1v1 duels or a teamfight. Your ult is a 1 second suspension and will cancel out the duration of any knockups on the target before you ulted. Let's say for example that you have a Malphite on your team and he ults into a teamfight. His knockup lasts 1.5 seconds. If you ult immediately, you waste part of his ult duration and replace it with your own, keeping the enemy CC'ed for less total time. Generally, you want to wait as long as possible before ulting unless you need to ult early to get a shield refresh or to avoid getting CCed while waiting and then being unable to ult. This has applications in 1v1 situations as well. Your knockup on Q lasts long enough to get an extra auto attack in before ulting, and doing this gives you a huge edge in duels and assassinations. Doing this also gives your Q time to come off CD while you're ulting, allowing you to Q immediately upon landing if you have enough attack speed. You basically get a free auto and a free Q just by waiting to ult, and considering how much damage Yasuo does, that is a very significant amount of damage; typically enough to 1 shot a squishy late game. Another thing that is important about his ult is that when you press R, Yasuo will ult the target nearest to your cursor and all knocked up enemies within 400 of that target. Normally this doesn't matter, but there are situations where you don't ult people who should have been hit or ult the wrong target by mistake. In general, just move your mouse into the middle of knocked up enemies to give you the best chance to get a good ult off on the right people.

The third is your E. Remember that it will always dash you a fixed distance, and that fact often changes the functionality of the skill. Oftentimes, if you try to E-Q combo someone while standing too close to them, you'll end up flying right past them and having your Q miss. Having this happen with your tornado is pretty much a death sentence if your opponent realizes how vulnerable you are and smart enemies will often move towards you when you try to dash onto them to make your Q miss. The fixed distance on E also allows you to hop certain walls if done properly: Krugs and Gromp are the best examples and you can even jump over small walls using enemy champions if you line it up properly. Also, you can cancel part of your auto and Q animations with E, so it's usually best to auto someone and then E them if you have the time. Another thing to keep in mind is that you don't want to use E directly on your target until you absolutely have to; save that E for if they try to escape or as a finisher.

The final part is your wind wall. The wind wall spawns inside of your hitbox immediately upon casts, and because of this, you can block projectiles even by walling the wrong way if done with precise enough timing. Another thing to remember is that your walls hitbox is very slightly wider than you are, allowing you to dance on top of a wall against ranged champions for some pretty nasty outplays. One trick most Yasuo's will use when closing on a dangerous ranged opponent is to dash towards them, wall the enemy champion at point blank range to block any potential self peel or burst, and then dash through the enemy while your wall floats forward. If done correctly, you will end up on the other side of the wall across from the enemy champion, allowing you to use both sides of your wall and forcing the enemy into a very bad position. Another interesting trick involving your wall is that it's animation overrides all other animations Yasuo can perform, meaning you can hide your 3rd Q windup with your wall animation to make it easier to hit shifty targets.

That's pretty much all the mechanical tricks you need to know about Yasuo. There's a few other things you can do but they're not very often applicable and are easy enough to mess up that I don't usually attempt them. Just remember that your decision making is more important. Yasuo is a very aggressive, kill or be killed champion. Make good decisions and pounce on moments of weakness and you'll be fine.

"I'm a yasuo player and therefore think he's balanced"

You can literally read it in 30 seconds. If that's too long for you then you'll suffer at an office job.