Talk:Yasuo/@comment-30539124-20161119012315/@comment-4091261-20161124100139

Fortunately, the sheer flexibility of the rational is what is amazing about the design process for a champion. Since you can rationalize anything, you can make the wildest things possible. While there may be limits in terms of balance and contradictions, there are so many things that can be done that scarcely does it feel like there is a limit at all.

Think about some of the reworks as examples. Where did Riot even come up with the huge knockback for ? Who the heck thought up of making a thing? They worked though. They also served as very important themes for their champion. Many things break down in terms of contradictions, logic and even balance does. This is why I find fault in something that could be so thematic as.

The fact that anything goes easily makes contradictions the reliable thing that can be focused on. Something that is 100% false in any scenario, can cause major mayhem. The scary thing about contradictions is that they reset an entire argument. If there is one present, anything goes because anything other than a contradiction is possible. A contradiction has the potential to absolutely destroy a character's image in this sense.

In a balance perspective this can be grave as someone being balanced to kill tanks, but realizing the champion is only balanced by not being able to kill tanks. A dissonance like this can completely throw a champion off course and force Riot to scrap the project by hitting him/her with the nerf hammer. It's been seen countless times with examples like in terms of DPS vs burst with his.

In all honesty, a champion can have their whole lore but then have an ability set that has no relation with the lore seen and still work. If there is no contradiction with a balanced kit and the existing lore, there is nothing saying the kit would not work. It can also make people curious about why the kit exists the way it does. Hell, the entire feature connecting and  is based on this since a lot of what  does in her kit goes unexplained.