URF is designed to be unbalanced. A champion being good in URF doesn't mean that they're poorly designed overall, it means that they're good in a mode where EVERYTHING can work (except Yasuo). Even Galio, old Yorick, and Urgot are god-tier URF champions, despite being horrible in the normal game. TLDR, if you think that Riot's design is poor because champions aren't balanced in URF, why the hell are you playing URF?
SpecterVonBaren2 votesI think there IS something to be said about how Yasuo doesn't really gain much of anything when played in URF.
Stand in my X1 voteswell he can ult with every or every 2nd tornado he launches which is kinda sick
Junkο1 votesHe gains nothing?
He has a perma windwall, 2 Es will fill up his flow, he caps Q AS with a Zeal item, his ultimate has 0 cooldown and he can afford to do EQ flashes way more often since Flash is on a low CD.
Brutalitops011 votesThe flow has no cooldown, it's just how far he moves. His Q doesn't benefit at all with CDR, only attack speed, and his E is on a fixed cooldown.
Junkο2 votesFlow has increased gain rate in URF just like Rage and Blood Well. His Q benefits from the AS buff URF gives which increases your AS by I think half, and his E is faster the more MS Yasuo has, URF buff gives you a lot of extra MS as well.
Trias0001 votesURF is designed to be unbalanced.
I keep seeing this fallacy. No, URF is not meant to be imbalanced. It's just is, because of it's nature and because of the fact that it would take too much effort to balance it. Although some adjustments have been made, e.g. 3 stacks per soul for Thresh, who previously was the worst URF champion.
Brutalitops011 votesThen you weren't around for the first URF. Riot literally said in the post on the first URF, "We thought we'd remove everything that makes the game balanced to make it a lot more hectic and fun." It IS, in fact, confirmed by Riot, literally designed to have no champion be balanced.
Trias0001 votesIn the first URF they disabled Ryze and Kassadin, because they were ridiculously OP. Later they added some balance changes, like limiting the number or time of Teemo's shrooms. Obviously, Rito are perfectly ok with URF being imbalanced, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't want to make it at least a little bit more fair.
Qiy4na1 votesIts not that they're op. Its just that if i can't pick an op champion in urf then why do i have to go against them?