User blog comment:AtheistUntoDeath/Which of these Champions would win? Part 5/@comment-24868463-20140604121319

Hey, what's up? Glad to see another one of these Champion Match-ups. Anyway, to get to main points.

The match-up this time is against two extremely skilled swordsmen, Master Yi and Yasuo.

Fighting Styles

Master Yi

Yi's sword style appeares to be similar to traditional chinese styles as seen from his stances and weapon choices. Although this is altered by one cold, hard fact: Yi relies on speed; he strikes twice in the time it takes to swing a sword once. The sword Yi uses is similar to the Chinese Dao which allows a variety of moves. Cutting, slashing, hacking, thrusting, you name it. All of these moves are performed by Yi with blinding speed. This trait seems to be the cornerstone of Yi's variant of the Wuju style.

His Alpha Strike further reinforces this notion, as Alpha Strike shows Yi striking enemies so fast, that he cannot be percieved by the normal eye and all that can be seen are the glints of his sword slashing through enemies. The speed is also reinforced by the fact that he returns to 1st slashed target, after hitting multiple other things.

The true damage Yi deals with the activation of Wuju Style might mean that the essence of Wuju Style is direct damage to an individual regardless of any alterations, precautions, and protections and that regardless of any of these, the Wuju Style will pierce through.

The Highlander skill entails that Yi is able to force himself to break the Human Limiter to perform at superhuman speeds, albeit at limited periods of time (as it should be, btw). The ignoring of slow effects attributes to Yi's mastery of the mind that it overwrites the existence of restrictions on the body and just forces it to keep going. The extension of the duration per kill could be that Yi is encouraged by being able to slay an enemy and therefore keeps his Limiter broken, through willpower and the strength of the mind.

Also, Yi is seen to have mastered both the mind AND the body and is capable of self-hypnotism to ignore wounds and exhaustion, as Meditate heals Yi and reduces incoming damage.

Yasuo

Yasuo's sword style seems to be an unconventional style due to using a sword that looks like an oodachi to perform moves similar to the Iaijutsu of Japan, albeit twisting the defensive style into the offensive Ionian art that we see Yasuo perform. It also seems to be centered around movements that are as if the wind is bent to the warrior's will (and in Yasuo's case, it does). (I think Teemo isn't annoying as f*ck)

Yasuo's passive hints that he is able to manipulate the wind in less straight-forward manners, such as using it to make a shield and emulate a natural disaster, as seen in the mini-tornado that the third cast of Steel Tempest fires. Therefore, we must speculate that he is able to make use of it in other forms, like enhacing linear movements and softening blows.

Steel Tempest is basically a thrust of the sword so fast that he creates a small vacuum at the position of the sword (seen in particles). This says that Yasuo is capable of drawing, thrusting and resheathing the supposedly heavy sword at sonic speeds ONE-HANDEDLY.

Sweeping Blade is basically just Yasuo using footwork to dash to a target but the damage dealt and its stacking implies something else. It might mean that he uses the wind to propel himself and he actually slices with either the wind or sword itself to cut whatever he passes through, all in the span of the time it takes to pass by. The stacking might imply that Yasuo uses the momentum from repeatedly dashing to enhance the next, utilizing it to strengthen the power of the next blow.

Wind Wall is simply a wall made of wind created by Yasuo's ground slash. The amusing part of this is that it repels numerous projectiles, even stopping explosives, high caliber rifle shots, magic bolts, light bullets etc. The tenacity of the Wind Wall proves Yasuo's control over the wind has been refined to that level.

Yasuo's Last Breath is an ability rarely mentioned and considered by many people. In this skill, Yasuo actually blinks to airborne enemies even though Yasuo is never mentioned to possess magic or the sort to do this. The answer? Speed. I assume that Yasuo also possesses the speed of the Alpha Strike, although to a lesser extent that he cannot perform this repeatedly.

Another part is that Yasuo is able to keep both himself and his targets aloft throughout the duration of the skill, no matter the time and disregarding weight and the disruptions brought by Yasuo's slashing. This is made possible by Yasuo's unique wind-sword style  and acute mastery of the wind.

The armor penetration and shield refill Yasuo gains from Last Breath only further reinforces his wind mastery. Any Naruto fan out there would remember the Chakra Blade training Naruto underwent. Last Breath follows the same principle. Yasuo refines the air around his blade that it allows him to disregard a portion of armor. The shield refill is just more solid proof that Yasuo is attuned to the wind to the point that he can form another shield despite it supposedly requiring Flow or movement.

To sum it up, both fighters have distinct advantages over each other but Yasuo takes the cake due to the multiple mechanics and factors that the analysis of his abilities bring to light. the outcome might change though, if an actual battleground was specified.

As always, thanks for reading. To all those who actually read the whole thing, the thing in the middle is just to test out if anyone actually read it.