Talk:Yasuo/@comment-25038920-20140612150840/@comment-25101827-20140624215945

Not weird or hard to play at all really; and at the moment he is in a VERY powerful position as an AD Melee Hypercarry. What I think you are confused about is his resource Flow; he does NOT use flow in place of mana, he strictly is only limited by cooldowns. (Making his abilities naturally spammy!)

Flow pretty much just determines when your passive sheild is ready; and the way it replaces the mana bar just shows you the sheilds strength. You don't have to worry about it at all, just ignore it really; you move so often that is generates very fast. (Considering half the time in lane your circling waiting to CS anyway...)

Positioning wise he is really easy to use; just don't use your dash too close to tower as you can overshoot and take turret shots. Poke with Q, Sheild abilities and ults with W.

I go for build Statik first (first item Brawlers into Avrice,) Berserker Greaves, IE, Last Whisper and BotRK (order pending on sitiuation,) and then either a GA or Bloodthirster pending on sitiuation.

I don't have runes for him specifically yet; but I would go a Crit Damage Reds and Q's then Crit Chance Yellows and Blues (for a glass cannon page.) If you want to really end a game at the begining (but sacrifice the worth of the runes late) you could go full on Crit Chance for a whopping 56.3% chance only with your Brawlers at start. However, considering that IE and Statik alone give you 90% the build will max Crit Chance earlier meaning your runes are worth less once this happens.

Masteries go most if not all Offense.

As far as tactics goes just practice hitting every 3rd Q Tornado you can as this is your main source of ranged poke. Even better try hitting all minions with one tornado to get that damage as a good practice technique. Also make sure to practice using minions to dash and catch targets, (same with retreating.) Practice proc'ing your tornado on jungle creeps WITHOUT killing them so you can have your ult ready as much as possible by yourself for fights that DON'T happen in lane, (often in river or jungle; this is vital as your ultimate is you biggest weakness in regards to not having it availible all the time like all other champs.) And again, pracitce hitting those Q tornados can't stress it enough; its your only means of using your ulti if there is no other knockups on your team, you miss you die.

In Draft or in Ranked if you plan on going Yasuo tell your team as people are willing to build around this Hypercarry. Wukong, Malphite, Nami, Blitz, Lulu, and Xin are really strong partners just to name a few!

Otherwise enjoy! :)