Talk:Yasuo/@comment-27403317-20160807173915/@comment-24613667-20160821191405

With Orianna though, she's extremely item-dependant. She won't two-shot you unless she's very far ahead and, even then, AD itemization is stupidly efficient, so it's that much less of a gap. You can buy items like Maw, Scimitar, or Sterak's and be more than relevant while also gaining defensive stats. But, for AP, Half of the armor from Zhonya's is negated by Ghostblade and Zeke's is the only other AP/Armor item (which is a support item). Even AP's magic resist items are terrible, you can buy an Abyssal on pretty much anyone...or you can buy a Wit's End...on, like, 3 champs.

Meanwhile, Yasuo's kit is self-sufficient. He's resourceless, has practically non-existent cooldowns (his ult is 30 seconds, I mean, come on), absurd mobility that makes him very hard to target (even if it is target-dependant), CC that he can reliably land with E+Q, and a 500 hp shield that's almost always up because it generates from walking (which is also guaranteed to fully replenish by ulting). The only part of his kit that requires items to be of use is his crit passive which, again, is a stupidly-efficient AD synergy.

And, his W cooldown isn't hugely important because all he needs to do is block that one ability to completely turn a fight, there's not even any counterplay to it either. It has no health bar so it can block literally everything that's thrown at it and it's coded to be ridiculously lenient, I've seen Yasuo's PHYSICALLY get hit with Ashe arrows, Ziggs bombs, [insert skill name here]., but they just disappear because he pressed W with 0.0000001 seconds to spare. He can even cast it backwards and still block abilities. It's just completely unfair, as-is.