Talk:Yasuo/@comment-30539124-20161119012315/@comment-24496127-20161120211646

Honestly, everything I think of Yasuo's character can basically be summarized as "Himura Kenshin but willing to kill people", since you're bringing anime into this. It's not a perfect one for one comparison, Yasuo is much more cynical, but that seems to be the inspiration for his fighting style and archtype.

It's confirmed he meditates in Taliyah's teaser story, and he was willing to help her, so he's a traveling samurai that wants redemption, but seems to have grown well enough that he doesn't really expect to be considered innocent, since he didn't put much thought into fighting off the enemies in Taliyah's teaser story.

So a peaceful wanderer that strikes out and kills in the blink of an eye if he's pushed into it. Of course, a samurai sword isn't a great assassin champion design choice, the nature of a sword like that just makes you think of a sustained fighter, and personally, his ultimate doesn't fit at all with what his theme was, yet it's also the least controversial part of his kit, since aside from slight cc that people love to exaggerate, and a shield reset, it really doesn't do too much.

I think his dashing is conceptually and visually perfect, it just quickly becomes frustrating to play against due to the nature of constant dashes with very little down time.

I just had an idea, give his dash literally no cooldown, but if he doesn't dash to a new unit within, lets just say four seconds, he's unable to dash again for 15-5 seconds. Now when he dashes, he's commited to going in, but if he goes in too hard, he won't be able to dash to escape. The idea for it's use would be similar to how you can set up a preparation dagger with new Katarina.

The only issue is, I have no idea how that would work in teamfights. That's off topic though. I think the best direction to go with him, would be to make him into a sword based fighter with a heavy emphasis on techniques augmented by wind rather than just straight up using the wind as a shield and occasionally copying Janna.

I have no idea what to do with Windwall. It shouldn't be there, but it can't be changed without leaving Yasuo gutted. That's why I never go into any changes for it, because it's just always feels like a bad idea.