How I can play Yasuo in ranked?

LyingOnTheSky·Jul 28, 2014·1 votes·914 views

I say "Yasuo top" but the rival team already banned it in draft mode. I am still below level 30, but I hope to play ranked with Yasuo. What I can do about it? In which rank people stop banning it? I can skip somehow to this rank?

If you want to convince me not to play it: I am good with it, I did 7 pentas with less than 80 games, my record kills is 48 in 47 minutes, my minions per minute is about 7.5 in average, and most of the times I can get the other turrent without my turrent being scratched with using teleport of course.

6 Comments

CaptainWednesdayJul 28, 20142 votes

Just be aware of how the Ranked system works. It's completely random as to when Yasuo may or may not be banned. There's no set rank where no one bans him or does (As of this post Yasuo is at a 69.42% Ban Rate, making him the 3rd most banned champion in League). You should be able to play every role to some ability before playing Ranked. Relying on one champion and one lane will not get you anywhere.

LyingOnTheSkyJul 28, 20141 votes

I am planning to be in ranked team, that obviously each one in the team will practice in one role. By the way I know this 69% thing, is this number the ban rate in draft mode? or ranked? (or Both?)

Sire HippingtonJul 28, 20142 votes

if it'S from lolking, it's usually both, or atleast all ranked typs(solo/dou,5v5,3v3) in all regions but from my experience, he's definitly on 70% or higher in soloQ, probably a bit lower in 5v5 but still above 50%. U shouldn'y relay on 1 champ only. Mastering 1 role is fine if u want to go 5man premade only, even though i still recomand learning other roles, as it helps u understanding the game alot more while improving ur teamplay as u know better whats going on for ur mates. However, u should definitly have atleast 3+champs for ur mainrole to not get outbanned/picked.

If u like high mobillity high damage melees with strong lategame, Zed and Riven might be good choices to learn beside yasuo, akali also is great, and i guess Jax and Irelia would fit that playstyle aswell, but it wouldn't hurt having some other typs of champs, like renekton or lulu so u can fit in more diffrent strategies and adapt better(also, knowing how to play a champ helps really a lot at playing against it)

CaptainWednesdayJul 28, 20141 votes

Good question. I believe the statistic is taken from Solo Ranked 5v5 & Team 5v5 on LoLKing.

Yasuo could definitely work in a Ranked Team, provided the enemy team does not ban him.

WorgslargJul 28, 20141 votes

A lot of it is because yasuo is pretty much the strongest fighter at this time. He is hard to shut down because of how his crit passive works, and he will almost always reach lategame power, regardless of laning. People simply dont want to deal with him

DocRedgraveJul 28, 20141 votes

You've hit the nail, perfectly. That's the motivation behind the Yasuo bans, and it's also because nobody has any idea how to counterpick Yasuo in lane. I can deal with Yasuo so easily I never ban him. (That's because I have a huge amount of experience with the guy). Anyway, Yasuo dominates low elo so you might see him banned less at higher elos such as Platinum. However, they will probably counterpick Yasuo so be careful if you take him.