Talk:Yasuo/@comment-38258081-20190611165650/@comment-38800792-20190716110212

I'd say its because he simply has a weapon against every type of champ

- assassins want to burst you? you got a passive shield to prevent 100:0 within 2 secs

- ADCs want to AA you to death? you got a windwall to prevent that

- mages/sups want to hit you with CC skillshots? you can dash around whole minion lane (plus windwall if you dont have minions around)

- tanks want to tank you and slowly kill you? you got a 50% armor penetration on ulti they can't dodge, you just have to onclick charge with E thru them and activate Q during it (making the knock-up undodgeable)

- bruisers want to kill you quickly? shield + but also larger amount of damage then bruisers allows you to health thru this if you have at least one healing item, again using ulti passive to eat thru armor if they bought any

....you see yasuo is not the best in anything of the above, there are champs which perform in each area above better than yas (e.g. Vayne in tankbusting)...BUT, yasuo perfoms in all of those areas adequately...adequately is usually not enough in an agreed 5-man team which requires more specialist champs or in very high elo, as you simply need to perform best...but in gold and below (90% of lol players) adequate performance is enough...he is especially strong in blind picks as he has very few match-ups which are downright counters, usually he can perform adequately against any sort of match-up (unless he is too kill-hungry and dies a lot (very common problem)), and in blinds you do not know your match-up so playing champs which can perform ok anywhere is the way to win these games the most

...also fact riot has been removing onclick CC and changing everything to skillshots is hidden-buffing champs with dashes and dodges, as onclick CC used to be a counter to that...but nowadays almost nothing has onclick CC so yasuo can dash around creeps to dodge pretty much anything...only thing they recently added which is onclick is Eve's charm and frankly I'd say she is one of the big counters to Yasuo...however, due to his passive shield he is usually not able to burst him (i.e. the assassin problem mentioned above), I always ask a laner to bring down the shield and once it is down before a gank 0 problem as she counters him hard with onclick charm and then onclick E dash to him to apply the CC