Talk:Yasuo/@comment-15280970-20150726022659/@comment-15280970-20150803085815

About Mid lane being safer than Top lane.... Naah, mid has a lot of points to be ganked by, it's by far the most camped lane and the towers are much more closer which hinders yasuo's kill potential a lot (he's short range and melee and uses minions to chase fleeing champions). Mid lane as you go up in elo is by far more ganked than top lane, particulary because if you see the jungler in top lane you rush dragon and because turret diving isn't really hard for junglers when they know the numbers. Also, there's always the Blitz, Braum, Bard, Leona that comes mid lane to gank. Top lane has easily two or three spots to ward, depending on what side you are on.

About the farm and exp, top gets more farm and exp, because of a comon move that is trascendental across all yolo Q, that is, to end early game by transforming the game into an ARAM by just going all mid. All of your team steals your farm and exp. Also, losing ADC's steal farm and exp from mid lane because they get killed in bot.

Wind wall isn't the master move of yasuo at all, if you have ever seen any kind of professional play, yasuo often gets kicked out of mid lane by poke.

About playing cards perfectly, yasuo has more resources, that in return, are harder to pull off than most of the other top lane matchups. Other top lane matchups are just plain survival because the only way to beat riven are her mistakes, like not dodging a cho gath Q or something like that.

And finally, what has riven to do with all of this (and why do I notice that you haven't even seen yasuo top enough times and you are just plainly theorycrafting)  because it is his most played matchup. Riven top is very popular herself and is most of the times picked to counter yasuo top. So it kinda makes sense that Yasuo's rival is his most played matchup.