What is special about yasuo??

Ao Dracona··1 votes·3,364 views

Whenever I play league of legends with friends they always play yasuo and boast to everyone in their lobby that they play yasuo and whenever anyone else in our group plays him or at least touches him dear god cause we are gonna get flamed the hell out.

Like holy crap calm down fam anyone can play yasuo it’s not like riot only allows only a select few to play him in fact there are a lot of yas out there but the yas mains in my group think they can ctrl others on who they can play yas. Im not even upset about it personally I don’t play that champ but I find it funny on how ppl can get that obsessed over a champ

So what is sooooo special about yasuo that makes ppl treat him like a toy that they just not share with others?

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The Whamboozler3 votes

Before Yasuo came out, the champ who had this issue was Riven. She was the most likely champion in the game to ragequit after her first death for over a year, if I recall. Riven players are still like this to an extent... but Yasuo has far eclipsed her as having the most obnoxious players in the game.

Yasuo seems to appeal to the teenage edgelords of the world... all wanting to be the anime badass supercarry that puts the team on his back. All arrogant as hell and convinced they're the best player in the game but that their team is holding them back.

In Riven's case she fed the same kind of ego. Her kit was manaless and spammy, and she was encouraged to go in yolo hard early because her level 2 was one of the strongest in the game and she was INSANELY snowbally if she got an early kill on you. So she was played by people who wanted to just faceroll on you over and over again because that was a valid strategy for her at the lower ranks where it was pretty likely to work. At higher Elos people like Boxbox made outrageously difficult technical plays with her, making the average Riven player twice as arrogant and obnoxious because she was "mechanically demanding"... even though most of them didn't do any of the animation canceling or high level tricks she had. Then of course, Riven's character is a very weeb-bait brooding anime waifu to bring in the angsty teen edgelord crowd and the neckbeards and... boom. You got a champ with one of the most obnoxious playerbases in the game.

Then enter Yasuo... and he ticks almost every single box Riven did and then some. He's a broody anime badass for all the teenage edgelords (Seriously, this mofo has NOTHING but edgelord skins out of a 14 year old boy's bad fanfics). He's a spammy, manaless champion that isn't that hard to play but IS hard to play well. Every Yas thinks they're pro because of how "hard" he is to play... when he's got no resource management to worry about, his kit is VERY powerful and unlike old Riven he scales really well... so even when they yolo in and die four or five times early they're still assured of being relevant if the game lasts long enough.... which they will tned write off as skill and further boost their egos. Add in that a lot of people feel validated by "haters" and Yasuo has a lot of hate... and you can see why so many Yas players think so highly of themselves. To further the problem, Yasuo's ult is very strong but very team-reliant... encouraging the belief that Yasuo's TEAM failed him by not picking or playing to better enable him. After all, he's the real hero and the other players are just his anime sidekicks, here to watch him 1v9.

Save yourself some stress and just ban him every game. He's not even OP or anything... but it's generally just not worth having him in the game on either team... because it's 90% likely that the person playing him is going to be some flavor of toxic asshole. Save yourself the stress and just ban the mofo... or at LEAST mute anyone playing him the second the game starts.

Ao Dracona1 votes

Ah this explains a lot of why yas is such an asshole character but tbh there are champs a bit edgier and anime than him like kayn, like come on he’s edgier and animer than yas, but the part that explains that yas is a high skilled champ differentiates him from other weeabo champs and why he’s “special”

BoringLittleF1 votes

Unlike Kayn, who is unapologetically arrogant and self-centered, Yasuo has that " selfless lonely misunderstood noble warrior" appeal that his mains THINK they can relate to. As in "OMG nobody of these noobs understands my secret technique! Always 1v9!". And also, he is quite easy so they get to feel themselves special for free.

The Whamboozler1 votes

Kayn is...

A: Not manaless and/or spammy. B: A jungler, first and foremost. C: Weak early, while also not scaling as hard into late.

All three of these deter the anime weeb edgelord egomaniac. Managing a resource like mana means they can't just mash their fist on the keys when it's go-time and expect everything to work. Jungling is a role that by default requires one to think about one's teammates, jungle paths and so on.... it might not be HARDER than laning, but it requires a lot more forethought and planning than most lanes and a jungler needs to have an iota more awareness of the game beyond "I shall 1v1 this guy again". And since Kayn has a silly tendency to not be very strong or useful if you've dove in like a moron and died 5 times in a row, he's more punishing if you show the kind of skill the average Yasuo player prefers to show.

So while Kayn is most CERTAINLY anime as fuck (I would argue the shirtless samurai is still more so, but that's splitting hairs) and he is such a massive edgelord that every 14 year old in the game spontaneously creamed his pants the day Kayn was released.... Yasuo still hangs on to that toxic shitlord playerbase. Oh sure, there are plenty of anime edgelords that play Kayn. But Yasuo's playerbase isn't just anime fans or edgy teens. Anime fans aren't inherantly toxic or awful, and even some edgelords are ok if you get to know them. But Yasuo appeals to the (infuriatingly large) community of TOXIC, arrogant, self-absorbed, lazy, edgelord shitstains that feel they are god's gift to the world and everyone needs to fear them. The people who unironically believe that they could kill a gunman with their mail-order katanas, and that the girls in their school are only disinterested in them because women are all insert neckbeard sexist terms here and not because they act like a brooding manchild with no social skills.

So yeah. Yas's fanbase isn't awful because they're all weebs. Yasuo's fanbase is awful because he appeals to awful people that happen to be weebs.

Kei1433 votes

Don't you know, its proven by science that your team's Yasuo will always feed and the enemy's team Yasuo will always be godlike?

Ao Dracona1 votes

Welp that’s why my yasuo friends always force me to go alistar for that knock up so they don’t feed, honestly just ego boosting the fuck out of them

BlueBilberry1 votes

People get attached to little things.

HyuneyBuddha1 votes

It's the hair and the flute. They love a good musician with nice hair. [sg-ahri-2]

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