User blog comment:AXE MURDERER/Yasuo is disgusting/@comment-1985493-20131226152250

I used to think Yasuo was hilariously crappy for the same reason I originally dislike Lucian: a terrible/unusable ultimate. But when I saw more comps with different knockups, my opinion of his ulti changed. There's a bunch of champs who, in combination with Yasuo, make him incredibly strong. I could list them out, but I'll just give you the best right away: Vi. The fact that her ult will hit 100% of the time and gives Yasuo a second to react is amazing. Plus it's not like Thresh hook in that you actually have time to react and press R. I'd just like to reiterate: 100% knockup on ANY squishy target. Not to mention Yasuo's armor pen from his ult along with Vi's denting blows armor pen meaning that target should have about as little armor as possible when everything's getting unloaded on them.

As Yasuo's strength for kit-wise, Wind Wall is obviously strong, no reason to get into that. His q seems weak and unusable in the fact that it doesn't do a whole lot of damage and is very reliant on being used 3 times. From what I've seen, it's very difficult to hit in all-ins, and that's where Yasuo *should* shine, am I right? Finally, as for his dash, it's similar to his q in that it takes too long to get going and actually become useful, and not to mention that if he spams it out while in lane, he'll be balls deep inside the enemy's creep wave. It's not useful for escaping unless you get really lucky with positioning and again, doesn't do that much for all-ins.

Ulti-wise, with a good comp surrounding him, yes, Yasuo's ult is incredible, but the rest of his kit shys in comparison (other than Wind Wall, which doesn't do damage anyway). Have Riot created a farm-centric laner? Yes, but those already existed in much more atrocious states (i.e. Nasus). Can Yasuo be easily countered due to his weak-ish and conflicted skillset? Hell yes. Just put an all-in assassin on the enemy team and start roaming before Yasuo can farm up and that's the end of that. So I doubt we'll be seeing him when LCS rolls around unless he gets some Lucian-level buffs beforehand.