Talk:Yasuo/@comment-26869721-20170125163931/@comment-26203093-20170217174839

Some of the most powerful champions in the game are among the most frustrating. I've said before illaoi does enough damage for a whole team's worth of physical damage, so if she gets a team willing to set her up it's amazing. Of course, nobody's willing so she ends up just flailing at air and the only kills she gets is when people run at her not understanding her power.

It's why some of the most played champions are the ones without clear counters and/or broad strengths, not specific strengths; syndra, thresh, lucian, fiora. Or those who gain strength too quickly currently to be properly countered with current playstyles, like hecarim, and apparently vi, though I haven't really seen it myself.

In the case of fiora, even though she has counters, the leeway riposte provides, can dramatically change the way it would usually play out. Making any supposed counter with fiora the archetypical "skill matchup". To a degree, anyway.