Talk:Yasuo/@comment-28884186-20160817080140/@comment-25970203-20160817222705

Nerfing azir like they did was technically the right call though. It wasn't fair to those who've mained him, but his design had a terrible error from the beginning. If you look at his kit, the whoule thing is perfectly fine until you add his E into the equation. That single-handedly destroys his ability to be balanced and Riot has no idea if they want to nerf his whole kit around the E or just remove the E and give him something different. one rioter RiotGypsy, has made comments that azir needs an entire rework based on his E either removing it or balancing his whole kit around it because of the fact that it is too game warping and intrinsically unhealthy. This was his opinion though and he even said it didnt reflect the current set belief of the whole organization so take it with a grain of salt.

As for yasuo, he's mostly seen as oppressive because of his juggernaut build that uses frozen mallet and trinity and how this has become his new gold standard as it makes him difficult to kill, augments his difficulty to escape and removes his largest weakness, being squishy. This toplane build removes a good chunk of the difficulty of playing the champion so the arguement about him being difficult to play becomes moot because through raw stats he becomes incredibly forgiving to play and is now technically a low skill floor champ since he doesnt die easily.

In short, yes they will nerf him even though he probably doesnt deserve it because itemization is the problem. Yes they will inevitably buff him because he is a champion played by most of the community.