Talk:Yasuo/@comment-25562166-20150317181650/@comment-26227036-20150320193512

@PentaBacon

Any champion can look broken on paper. Melee carries especially, because their kits need very pronounced strengths to balance out their near-crippling weakness of being item-dependant squishy melees. Ultimately you need to play champions yourself to judge their strength, and you obviously haven't done that if you're just gonna point at his kit and say "and therefore he's broken."

He's honestly a lot more balanced than his rival melee carries like Master Yi, Fiora, Tryndamere, and Gangplank. Weak but workable laner, he has good and bad lane matchups (and some really, really bad lane matchups), he's never overwhelming to play against unless he's fed, he's not completely useless to his team if he falls behind, and you've got that skill floor keeping him in check. And he doesn't become a free win at 6 items either. His lategame honestly isn't that amazing unless he gets a really good ult off and his team capitalizes on it.

Honestly he feels really weak after the nerfs, though the reverted nerfs help. He's only played as much as he is because you can feel the potential when you play him, and he's really rewarding when mastered.