Talk:Yasuo/@comment-5494818-20140522193738/@comment-6281696-20140527103847

His shield early on functions are rather effective sustain, probably better than some other forms of sustain. Also the free crit makes a tiny bit of lifesteal extremely effective on him. Also, how does Jax have sustain? They both build lifesteal quite quickly, and Yasuo has his shield on top of that... If you're going to claim Jax has CC than so does Yasuo, and virtually every other AD top & mid laner...

His chasing/escaping is more than fine. First of he has high movementspeed thanks to Stattik, second of as long as there are minions he can chase, which is roughly the same level Jax's chasing actually and third, his windwall allows him enough time to create a distance between him and his opponent so he can't be hit by CC anymore. Jax's escaping is probably slightly better as he can also jump back to friendly stuff..

Q is increadibly reliable as lóng as you're actually fighting. The only situation in which his Q becomes unreliable is if you want to use it to engage because people might be at maximum range and you can miss the skillshot... if you're poking with it it's fairly unreliable, but as soon as you're actually fighting everyone is at pointblank range anyway and it becomes a moot point.

His shield gives insane amounts of tankiness (it's better than malphites which is just insane...) and apart from that he isn't even supposed to be a tank.

How is his tower pushing not fast? Yasuo has high attackspeed and high AD...

Jungling, how is that relevant? He's not going to jungle anyway, there's still plenty of roles left...

Yay he has counterpicks... so does everyone else...

Actually, given how easy it is to hit stuff with his Q once you're actually fighting that weakness of his ult is kind of neglectible. Unless you want to basicly engage with his ult, or demand you hit at least 4/5 in a teamfight with it, it is effectivly not all that dependent on others at all..

Anyway, I'm not saying he's the best champion ever. Just that he has a kit that is obnoxious as hell to deal with. Significant parts of this other champions have too, or even better (e.g. Lee can more than measure up mobility wise, Trynda & Yi have the same levels of ridiculous damage, Janna effectily has a better version of the CC on his Q) However, he just has one of the more toxic combinations of it all..