Talk:Yasuo/@comment-4068613-20140702185205/@comment-8506165-20140715103519

"innate on 45% bonus crit chance worth 2250 gold. around 1800 gold with crit reduction.

Yi gets a 80% AS buff worth 2400 gold.

Warwick gets an AOE AS buff worth 2400 + 1200*nearby ally, to a maximum of 7200 gold. "

throwing around gold efficiency stats is all well and good but it's a somewhat gimped method of grading the strength of steroids. Wanna know who gets a 4800g buff; twice as strong as Master Yi's?! Urgot. The closest thing League has to an "official" weakest champion in the game.

Even if it were a good method though - Yasuo's crit steroid is permanently active once he has the items (being an innate, and all) as opposed to the two temporary steroids Yi and Warwick get (one of which is tied to an ultimate) and given that he has an ability that also crits it's not really fair to just arbitrarily knock off 10% of the gold cost because that's his crit damage penalty. That said, you have to factor in that Yasuo has to buy the items for that half of his innate to do anything aside from maybe doubling 5% crit runes if he runs those, and the likelihood that he'll have his crit items at the point when the champions you're comparing him to level their steroid ability to maximum... All in all it's just difficult to make a straight comparison. Which is why I'm not sure just throwing around gold numbers is a good idea even if gold efficiency were the be-all and end-all for evaluating how strong a champion's steroid is.

None of this however really addresses the issue of Yasuo being at the very least annoying whether or not he's actually OP. But given the first post was somewhat loaded I can understand the impulse to defend him from a balance standpoint.