Talk:Yasuo/@comment-35641050-20191226124230/@comment-37810102-20191227111257

Yasuo has no mana and a shield because he has his Q stacks to manage, and his shield to pay attention to the timing on. Not only that, his abilities are:

Another basic attack, A wall that blocks projectiles and does nothing else, A dash with potentially infinite uses to let him actually do the one thing he does, An ult that is reasonably reliant on your team members.

His all-in is only broken at level 6 if you have no way to respond to it. Don't like getting hit by the tornado as Xerath because you were standing too close? Play a melee bruiser so you can fight him in lane.

The passive shield isn't to block poke, it's actually not even that useful if you time your poke right. His passive shield is to stop him from getting instagibbed when getting into melee range, because he has one other thing in his kit keeping him alive, and he also has no way out (depending on the Yasuo's planning). Let's also mention that it ONLY scales with level, and has no stat scaling at all.

Bottom line is: Yasuo isn't broken. Learn to stop succumbing to him, or learn to play a champion that can fight him. Unless enemy or neutral units are behind him, he can only overcommit to you. This is why he has a shield.