Talk:Yasuo/@comment-24496127-20160625230719/@comment-26286171-20160709014051

Playing crit yasuo isn't weaker at all and he can still go tank with crit though? What the hell are ya smokin'?

Yasuo functions in two ways:

His primary role, as a Fighter, which is to get your core items (PD/IE OR Shiv/IE) and go full tank thereafter, to get the most out of his tankniess you only really need two items and a life steal item, or three defensive items with wrath elixir for healing in combat (if you don't have bloodlust or just want some more.)

Secondary is Assassin, the previously more popular one, because of his ability to shit on people in seconds and hard carry once he has a lead. But he's entirely more vulnerable to burst, CC, and naturally every other form of "Get fucked close range hyper carry" damage in the game.

Think of it this way, though. Those non-crit utility builds don't give him any more damage than a crit build does. What they do is give him more room for mistakes and less of a need to focus on damage rather than just survivability, and Yasuo's kit allows him to deal damage well enough on its own if the player has put in enough time and effort to know when to use what and how to use it in any given situation. Same can be said about crit Yasuo.

It annoys me as a Yasuo main to see people always saying something needs to change about him or he's too strong, when the power is in the hands of the player's knowledge, both in favor and out of favor of the person playing him or against him. There are so many ways to shit on Yasuo with any build, the winner is determined by each person's knowledge during the game. Don't pin it on Yasuo himself. He's vulnerable enough as it is.

You know why those builds are even popular right now? Because ArKaDaTa, one of the best if not the best Yasuo players around, popularized it in a video with Redmercy. Non-crit Yasuo has always been an option and a viable one if anyone ever took the time to understand the champion. Why does it work? Because Riot designed him to function both ways. The crit passive doesn't MEAN YOU HAVE TO BUILD CRIT. It's literally mentioned in his kit as an aid, a bonus, something to "help" if needed.