Talk:Yasuo/@comment-26380451-20160817141404/@comment-26808509-20160820180216

Everytime a champ with a high scillcap, and I think we all agree that Yasuo has one, has a winrate above 50% you can assume he is too strong, especially if he is so popular. Because that means also less experienced players are doing well with him, although they don't utilize all parts of his kit properly. Normally high skillcaped champions have a pretty low winrate, because only those who have a lot of experience with this champ are really successfull with them. An example for that is Lee Sin, a pretty popular champion and a real nightmare in he right Hands, but he never seems op because you need to be really good with him. Yasuo at the moment too strong by default and thus you don't need to be a main to stomp with him. There are several Things that cause this, but the most obvious one is his snowbally nature combined with a strong laning phase. Some may disagree with this, because he is a meele fighter without any form of sustain, so how could he have a strong laning phase? The answere is his mobility in minion waves combined with his damage that is allready early on pretty high and his passive shield. These three talents make him a really harsh lane bully and difficult to deal with. His dash doesn't have a down time as long as there are enemies and his shield makes trading against him pretty hard. Especially in midlane it's hard to deal with him, because most champs there rely on skillshots, but Yasuo can either dodge them, soak them with his shield or just block them with his windwall.

However a strong laning phase doesn't make a Champion OP if his strengh decreases in mid and late game, but Yasuos doesn't. As many other snowball champs, his damage is really high and crit keeps plus armor pen keeps him on curve. Lately there even appeared the tanky Yasuo, who deals a bit less damage but lives longer if he makes mistakes. So different to other snowball Champions (Fizz, Katarina, Akali ect.) he has a damn strong lanephase and that shouldn't be. The games with Yasuo mostly end up with a snowballed Yasuo, because laning against him really is a pain and even if he didn't snowball, he can still go tanky and be a damage dealing but tanky threat for the ADC/APC.

Either they have to lower his snowball potential with gutting his late game power or they have to nerf his laningphase with higher CD on his dash early on. Thats my standpoint to Yasuo.