Talk:Yasuo/@comment-37514365-20190319100743/@comment-2179912-20190503163410

That's bullshit. Yasuo is objectively not OP, not by a long shot, no matter what any high-ELO player says.

Yasuo's problem isn't that he's so strong that players get overconfident (Riven doesn't seem to be having the same problem anyway :D). His kit is just reliant on SO many gimmicks his power is spread across, that you literally have to abuse every single one of them if you wanna succeed. You can't play Yasuo 'normally' and expect to win lane. His hyper-aggression is woven into his kit. You have to manage not one, not two but THREE different resources that all need to be maximized (Q stacks, E stacks and passive shield stacks) for optimal play. That means that you have to keep Qing minions, Eing minions and moving around as much as you can.

And as if that is not enough, his skills are WILDLY variable and unreliable. E gives him anywhere between 1 shitty dash (in duels) or like 9 consecutive dashes in minion waves, Windwall is sometimes an impenetrable bastion of safety against some champions (Kayle) but it's literally worthless against others (Jax).

Yasuo players don't keep dying because they're bad or because the champion is OP and it makes them cocky. They keep dying because the champion isn't consistent enough while still forcing them to keep pushing all of their buttons as much as they can to keep everything stacked up- but the buttons don't even do the same thing every time.