User blog comment:Psychofreak2/Yasuo Rework/@comment-5001455-20170506075424

Hmm, as a whole, this is a step in the right direction at the conceptual level. Yasuo's flow mechanic has always felt so tacked on and not integral to his kit. With your idea, you now have Yasuo being more flavorful as a wind samurai.

Personally, with your idea in mind, I would rather have him gain the flow shield AND crit as he is attacking at 100 stacks instead of the random shield that just pops up when he happens to be at full stacks.

At the moment, you see a lot of Yasuo players just kind of ignore their flow shield and just use the free crit percentage to stack more crit on top of it.

But I do like how your crit mechanic on him triggers after each time he would sheathe his sword (as it also opens up more item paths for Yasuo for those who want to do more than just cheese with 100 percent crit builds). But I do strongly believe he needs the limit of the stacks themselves because I don't like the idea of his abilities getting the crit so repeatedly.

And in regards to the rest, part of my biggest gripe with the current Yasuo is how he doesn't utilize flow in any shape or form outside of the shield that pops up from time to time. I think Riot missed out on just making it a resource for Yasuo. You could argue it would just be too similar to the energized-attack items, but I think having Yasuo build up flow to empower his next auto/ability would have been the way to do it.

You then would have a wind samurai who would take actual skill to use instead of a person who just spams his abilities again and again for no reason.