Talk:Yasuo/@comment-4022742-20131124183325/@comment-9705522-20131125190127

yi is a melee adc, yes. but building bruiser on him doesnt really work. or rather, depends on what you define as "bruiser". building trinity on him is incredibly stupid, and thats why it isnt done. building a bit tankier on the other hand isnt building bruiser. its building him like a melee adc. no melee adc can build full squishy. also, its not its cost. its it cost and its "stats all over the place" thing. this is the thing about trinity. its cost efficient. but you get all kinds of stats, and very few champions can actually make use out of all stats. and those champions are the ones who get trinity. lucian, jax, corki, ezreal. yasuo cant make any use out of the mana, obviously, but the ap is also very ... meh. sure, he gets a little damage on his e, but its kind of irrelevant. another problem is the fact that all those stats are fairly little. 30 of ad as and ap, and so on. its not a bad item, but on people who scale well with crits, and who have high ratios, trinity is not good. how often do you see trinity on riven? or on kha zix? (assuming you play at a level where people know how to play kha zix, i saw trinities on lower levels). never. because they make more use out of other items. as for atmas impaler, im kinda mixed opinion on that one. he either gets a lot of hp and his damage is subpar, or he doesnt, and then atmas is pointless. like, with 4000 hp it only gives you 60 ad. and you need 4k hp for that. phantom dancer seems like a possibly good choice, yes, although statikk does seem better, if you do want to pick either. pd has a bit of crit chance overload, statikk costs less, gives a little more movement speed and has the active. although, pd is strong too.

tl;dr, trinity on yasuo is bad, its ineffective, and he does better with items that give more ad or crit, e.g. ie, pd, statikk, ghostblade, bloodthirster, mercurials etc.