Talk:Yasuo/@comment-26869721-20170125163931/@comment-4091261-20170214145213

I can see why we are still debating this now. It's because of people like us who love to debate things to death.

Here are some clear facts to clarify things a bit.
 * is the most popular champion in Normals in the past month.
 * deals above average damage.
 * gets high CS on average.
 * has a terrible KDA in ranked.
 * has few inexperienced players playing him in total.

If you look at deaths and assists in comparison to Top Laners, it's complete garbage. Even so his kills is only above average so it's not nearly enough to offset his overall KDA. Despite this, is still doing "okay" for a top laner and is below average as a mid laner.

That said, his performance is definitely not being held up by neither his KDA nor his winrate, what is left anchoring it then? Well, what is left to keep him at an okay state? It's simply the fact that he kills a bunch of minions for how hard he scales.

There really is no other way to explain it. Given how experienced the playerbase is in general, the sheer fact that gets more CS in general sets them on a lead over the enemy. The thing about CS is that its relevance is maintained throughout the entire game as early on it means one is pressuring the enemy enough to get an lead, and later on the minions simply have a lot of money pumped into them due to the /time scaling.

As such it keeps his earnings above average and even quite high for a top laner. It is this combined with very good scaling that serves as a foundation for him to be relatively strong.

Another champion who is in the relatively same situation right now, but is arguably performing much better, is. is actually Villian number 1 when it comes to killing minions. This combined with the fact that he has increased gains in gold from killing minions and even contributes to increasing his ultimate power causes him to be also number 1 in earnings.

Its this foundation that even keeps KDA high and even dealing more damage than. However, I guess that comes at no surprise. even deals more damage than on average right now.

In the end the only thing really annoying about is that he can get the lead over the enemy fairly easily. It's not impossible to deal with, but it would be quite annoying if you played a champion who is not late game orientated like and suddenly got boned just because  farmed a lot while you weren't paying attention.