Talk:Yasuo/@comment-9920688-20131127133811/@comment-6301771-20131130172455

Think of it like this: An assassin tries to kill an opponent in a single rotation of their abilities. No matter how short a cooldown those abilities are, an assassin wants to get in and out before the first one is off cooldown. Yasuo is the exact opposite: He's really much more of a dps champion. It's just that his dps is about as high as the average assassin's burst.

In addition, assassins fall off late game. Yasuo's designed to snowball like mad.