Why Yasuo Nightbringer is the only Skin that changes how the Champion works!

Some skins are considered OP since they make abilities harder to see, but Yasuo Nightbringer actually changes how Yasuo works!
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[@amaterasu6083]

I already died for this interaction playing yasuo when rumble jungle was meta

[@spockling6538]

I miss those days

[@riotsee8553]

Exactly this is dumb

[@bearpowder8807]

@@spockling6538 Youre the only one

[@Fleam92]

@@spockling6538 You totaly can onetrick him to Dia in the Jungle. If you put the effort in ofc.

[@spockling6538]

@@bearpowder8807 I know I just love jungle and weird old champs like rumble

[@DiegoHernandez-vv3iv]

There is a riven skin that changes her direction when she backs/emotes, so she can Q in a diferent direction instantly if done correctly.

[@thanujanmukunthan3040]

Boxbox found this im pretty sure

[@xyz72936]

It's on a few skins and it changes which direction you go if you doublecast recall.

[@pinnacleexpress420]

Are you sure they didn't fix that when they removed the ward changing her direction mid-air? (Terrible decision btw, the ward backflip was bad ass) I'm 100% sure I read something about riven using emotes to alter animations in the latch notes.

[@xyz72936]

@@pinnacleexpress420 how long ago was that?

[@pinnacleexpress420]

@@xyz72936 prolly 2 years?

[@kklc5477]

If you watch frame by frame you can see that both normal and nightbringer received the same number of damage ticks so that means nightbringer yasuo is actually pay to win

[@colaonyourface]

im pretty sure yasuo spends the same time ulting as a normal skin so

[@shawnmyers6571]

@@colaonyourface he's saying there no downside. You don't get hurt by rumble more but you have the added benefit of not getting liandrys proc'd on anyone else nearby.

[@Betroid]

Dunkmaster darius is pay to lose

[@Pinke4]

@@Betroid why?

[@yulien7571]

@@Pinke4 In a Darius mirrormatch and in general too Dunkmaster ironically always dunks last

[@teekien98]

The dev that removed the trash codes when developing for nightbringer yasuo: lol Notice how normal yasuo animation slashes multiple times and the direction changes, but nightbringer is just a single slash animation.

[@IoniaZero]

With two smoke figures charging up the strike

[@Annnodyne]

tbh its just that this skin animation hits once, and the normal one hits three times and rotates the champion each time

[@kolo1364]

There is something about True Damage Ekko being better, I can feel it.

[@x8sNaKe8x]

It's the moonwalk after 3rd hit 😁

[@reven06]

Because it's full of exaggerated swagger of a black teen

[@billyjoe8185]

The swag on that skin gives you extra AP

[@randomness4989]

The hop,the walk back,the lines,its all 🔥🔥

[@arforafro5523]

The animation for the stun often wont play the barely audible audio cue with True Damage Ekko, the audio cue on the normal skin is very loud and always seems to go off.

[@pere7621]

Same thing with corki's E I'm guessing

[@thanujanmukunthan3040]

@that one cringe guy but it will shred armor and mr of everyone around him so it does also matter

[@taz_trader]

@that one cringe guy corki's e is to break armor not so much dmg

[@iyrccafle]

turns out 'unlucky' skins are real. 😐

[@mohamedabusamra2551]

I like to use this skin for Yasuo because everything about it feels smooth to play; even the Q animation is a bit faster and smoothest to me than other skins of him.

[@johnnybedir]

But it only hits to yasuo's direction this is a nerf on 1v1 but a buff in teamfights

[@kaihanwu6664]

No normal skin is full damage to all directions. Nightbringer is full damage to one direction. It's ridiculous.

[@williamgbewinther2800]

@@kaihanwu6664 We can clearly see that normal skin is not full damage in all directions.

[@kaihanwu6664]

@@williamgbewinther2800 If you watch in slow motion and count the ticks (starting from yasuo ult). Normal skin is both of them taking 5 ticks, nightbringer is only yasuo taking 5 ticks

[@piotreus5631]

@@kaihanwu6664 holy shit you are right I don't think its full damage but yes he does a 180 degrees (or even more) spin during one tick of damage. It's almost full full damage to everyone.

[@Nukkumatto]

@@williamgbewinther2800 Blind people should not be allowed on the internet

[@filipheist]

but at default he always turns the enemy south? does the enemy starting direction change the final direction? this is REALLY impactful for cass/shaco teammates, its like when you play with a teammate Ahri you always know the direction the enemy will face upon her landing charm, thus ensuring a stun from cass or crit from shaco

[@Daroga1]

No wonder that Yas skin feels so much more brutal.

[@alexjoslin5796]

This is literally so circumstantial that it literally doesn't matter

[@khaelkugler]

Riot's true PTW nature has been exposed

[@nico1234abcd]

so if you have a shaco jg, you should use that skin , because shaco deals more damage when he is behind an enemy.

[@thepowerlies]

I thought skins only changed the visuals on client side. This means some of the skins might literally be pay2win

[@caiwitt5456]

this is nothing new

[@Baboner984]

They came up with Sett. And you think this is what is making the game unplayable??.?

[@thepowerlies]

@@Baboner984 The game has been unfun to play for a while, I just didn't realize the disaster was this deep

[@Baboner984]

@@thepowerlies yone is last balanced champion. And that was like 4 years ago. Its a op champ playground. No skill to climb to challenger just play op champs

[@katamas832]

@@Baboner984 In what *parallel universe* is yone a balanced champ, let alone the last? Vex is 100% balanced, and Rell is a bit underpowered. We had quite a few non-op champs since Yone.

[@AquaShot43]

I love how little details like this keep getting discovered

[@Brohl1337]

Some ppl would call this gamebreaking, while they’re not able to get 80cs by 10min

[@reggaemarley4617]

Even though this is an incredible minor change, the fact that this functionality difference does exist between what should be purely cosmetic skins is sus af and opens the door to a bunch of other potential minor functionality differences between other skins that could make these things actually P2W or P2L.

[@ashwinrajesh9231]

love how its a vid about yasuo and its senna's soundratck playing in the background

[@joaopeixoto6224]

Now we wait until riot fixes this (they won't) If kindred was where yasuo ulted, would she die? And i still prefer the blossom one. It's so calming and relaxing

[@williamlif]

it means your more of a chill person, i prefer nightbringer because it matches my personnality so darky so edgyyy so painnnful have a nice day buddy :)

[@kshroikarpoi2065]

@@williamlif 🤓

[@williamlif]

@@kshroikarpoi2065 😜

[@opportunity3278]

@@williamlif omg you scared me with that last comment "cya buddy :)" chills ran down my spine at how edgy and darky that was

[@alfa-jorcito]

I thought I was the only one, that I had the same feeling, I started to perceive the change, when I watched the videos of Pzzzang and how well you play with that skin, like the gameplay changes, you get almost everything right

[@you82.League]

if you are seeing it in 2024 let me tell you, Nightbringer Yasuo is the best and smoothest skin Yasuo ever had, just ignore other and buy this skin

[@SieraExtincion]

the point of the skin is to truly channel your inner yasuo and die even faster after you ult by facetanking all the dmg yourself.

[@stumpedtroper]

Seems like an interaction that only a jojo character would use

[@georgkroux8554]

Introducing counter skin instead of counter pick

[@siawzy8279]

Riot : " please, buy our skin and play normally"

[@dimek6968]

Fun fact default Yasuo skin activates bork with his Ultimate. Nightbringer Yasuo doesn't activate bork with his Ultimate because it only strikes 2 times

[@Chrissy717]

What the fuck, that's stupid

[@Klycix]

Yoo that's pretty pog

[@congobongoproductions5476]

Nah this is absolutely ridiculous how do they keep getting away with this 😭

[@ShimoKuma]

@@congobongoproductions5476 It's a lie, just tested it and the ultimate doesn't proc BORK for either skin.

[@biggiecheese2004]

Yaqui has NEVER applied on hit effects with his ultimate EVER. Stop lying to people

[@ok-iy6pw]

Funny thing old Dragonknight Mordekaiser used to have the dragon pet locked to him. Which it was never supposed to be. So the Dragon actually teleported to Mordekaiser if he got out of leash range which didnt happen on any other skin.

[@virintojas811]

Ohhh, so thats why dzukill always plays this skin

[@L2thelastdwarf]

DJ Sona bug still works? Changing stances/music modes can make inmune to _charming_ (Like Ahri kiss) Cya 🧐

[@leog4383]

They patched it out a long Time ago. But yes, back then i tested it and it worked. They changed the music transition from a "Channeling" animation to an passive Change, which can be done like once every 5 seconds. But you are right, it WAS on the live Servers once (not only the PBE)

[@JeffH4rdy96]

You just got a new sub :D

[@itsmeeEnder]

even tower won't hit you until he smash down the enemy, unlike other skin that still has classic base. the first slash will trigger the tower until the end

[@Bill-uk6of]

Nah I always thought that the ulti on this skin looks awesome and smooth

[@The_White]

I always felt it looked... clunky. The other skins feel more fluid because Yasuo does several slashes before striking down (even tho they don't deal damage) while this one just sloooooowly charges up a single downward strike. It does however make reading the damage tick a lot easier. That's not good nor bad so.

[@Bill-uk6of]

@@The_Whitetbh I felt it smooth because of the "shadows" that perform his ult and and it doesn't seem that his ultimate changes his position but it's an opinion so whatever you feel like

[@Minth_aaa]

Yep, airblades on nightbringer is on another league compared to other skins.

[@Avidire]

Theres also something wonky about this skins EQ animation that just makes you stop.

[@jmb47kkamikaze80]

Nightbringer yasuo really said "yo I said 1v1 stop targeting the newbie "

[@guan8926]

This is so unbelievably niche that it honestly doesn’t matter

[@kaylenk4097]

LoL survey: Does different skin makes you perform better? Me: 😑 *close survey*

[@rizpradhan1380]

Bro wanted all the smoke 💀

[@kreater120]

Not gonna tell me friends so that when I give something insightful, I will come off as being smart but without glasses

[@asiansmout2374]

I always wondered if a cass ult would also be affected by nightbringer yasuo not flipping the airborne target around

[@minglin2814]

Riot really got the skin team left running the game

[@MonikerTheAceOfSpades]

Oh, 200 years of experience in game design...

[@armoredlizard7633]

Ssshh this is our secret 🤫

[@facundoluciani8920]

So, no lamb for dinner

[@nicolasmarkuc8526]

The ultimate rumble counter is real

[@cashbag]

This actually needs to be fixed

[@ekaan1223]

yasuo support confirmed

[@ocoro174]

many skins have a different feel to them tbh ngl

[@lordvondraco6712]

Still one of the best Yasuo skin and also one of the best in the game. I love it.

[@noriakikakyoin8198]

not one of the best, its THE best skin, even after inkshadow release

[@main1033]

This or truth dragon.

[@davidvargas1798]

Nothing more scary then that skin with those voice lines 😅

[@xdboygamerzxdboygamerz7467]

whenever i use this skin, i just build lethality rather than crit

[@nevergiveup8020]

Kinda Ironic since Nightbringer Literally talks about chaos.

[@akiaozora]

1:00 AYE!

[@pinnacleexpress420]

Are you suuuuuurre that certain Vlad skins don't improve/alter the functionality of his E vs minions ? Vlad's E is actually super jank, at least on my machine!

[@MrPudaum]

after watching his various skins ulting for what is ABOUT 1 HOUR, all his other skins has "multi hit sound effects playing" meanwhile nightbringer yasuo ult has some "shadow yasuo" hit the tartget while ulted while the "true yasuo" hits from above hitting the target into the ground, so even though this is fucked up for advanced gameplay making, it is skin based accurate

[@erenylmaz1221]

Yeah League of Legends clearly a P2W game now. Unplayable anymore

[@GtheArcher]

Really pisses me off that nothing will ever be done about this since fixing infrequent bugs does not bring profit. Another gamebreaking one is Mecha Aatrox, where the hit box for Q1 is actually a bit longer than shown.

[@Mickey1012_]

ashe r hitbox, sion Q hitbox, Naut q hitbox, Illaoi tentacle hitbox, are 3 rly bad ones that never hit but do hit that come to mind, they need to give those tentacles an actual indicator man. so annoying

[@infinity002]

It's not really that bad though. Rumble was never rmeant to spin like that anyway , makes yasuo r bad in a teamfight. This actually is how it should be done

[@justforyou8790]

how does riot even do that. skins are just visual. how do they fuk this up. everytime i see something like this i recall when they said for the 3rd time or so we got rid of the sphagetti...

[@zephiralarcon848]

Interaction with other champions? Taric E, braum E any other champions I'm not thinking about

[@vuton7670]

Hasn't riot already said most of their skins are pay to win? that's why some are banned from tourney.

[@Geheimnis-c2e]

People are really pedantic about this and will probably think of absurd ways in which this is "broken" when in reality it's not likely to happen in their games.

[@KERADOOO]

I always knew that every skin is a different champion in fact

[@Regunes]

Oh yeah I thought something was wrong

[@Ligmabawwls]

Can we talk about how Galaxy Zed has a super obvious crit animation when they’re near death?

[@jond2697]

?

[@alexbrestowski4131]

That’s zed passive animation where the spike comes out of his arm in that skin

[@Ligmabawwls]

@@alexbrestowski4131 very observant, but naw it’s just a really good skin imo. Although I argue that debonair has the edge since the shadows are a bit harder to see.

[@alexbrestowski4131]

@@Ligmabawwls zed is my most played champ and my favorite has always been shockblade. Visually I do prefer most of the other skins but all the other skins have super weak sound effects compared to shockblade so I stick with shockblade

[@Zman14888]

Skins are purely cosmetic and offer no gameplay advantages. -Rito, probably

[@rwer993]

Ig its a bit both p2l and p2w for Yasuo. P2L cuz u take more dmg, P2W cuz u can get ur powerspike faster

[@joshuaday9069]

The cowboy yasuo skin also hides the tornado throw after windwall

[@Flikanik]

that happens with every skin

[@leomajsai5572]

is it the Antwan? swedish rapper?

[@zhenjiexu4295]

lets add a silence on yasuo’s ult pls

[@k00ij]

Works with corkis gatling gun too

[@ranorunadaira1452]

Is his dragon skin do this too?

[@Ramxhashira]

dragon skin works same as base model just tested

[@Minizu4]

Best Yasuo skin, the classic.

[@CaseyATong]

Sounds more like a bug than a skin feature

[@Zebastien-u1k]

yea btw this works for briar e too

[@Jacob-ldk]

*Riot creating new Champions with Skins*

[@nguyenphamkhoi3012]

so that mean this skin is the worst skin for ys, cause the Rumble instantly Q to Ys in YS's R not like others

[@zlRoyalxii-]

thank you im a ego player and i know which skin will not be played again 💀

[@magicien233]

If it wasn't for this I would be challenger instead of silver.

[@JB-yq1jn]

So Braum, Shaco and Cassio are both affected by this as well directly or by targeting Yasuo's victim

[@HanstheBoss1]

Pay to win for real but hey fair play those skin cost a kidney

[@yilongmask]

i think if you airblade/beyblade they wont turn in different directions

[@akilelamin]

rumble mains on suicide watch rn

[@Freebbygang]

I feel pzzang when i play with nightbringer

[@nevanlicht8593]

The iron 4 player picking yasuo vs rumble cause now he thinks it's his counter

[@Oktopussmann889]

this could ruin games especially for rumble, corki and cassiopeia players where the direction they are facing is crucial

[@ceyhuntuncel1447]

Nightbringer yasuo dares to its opponent fight with him

[@suoya955]

i actually think that the splash art yas was base off his ult

[@Hachiman-k8q]

Im still wondering how he unsheate his sword

[@nischalthapa2460]

Isn't it the same in the truth dragon and night dragon or something skin for yasuo

[@PunktStrichPunkt]

And then there is starguardian lux who gets worse..

[@gragasapmidlane6761]

vandal Gragas skin actually has an animation cancelling that doesnt work on any other gragas skin he can Q W same time sorta

[@Geheimnis-c2e]

It doesn't have animation cancelling. It just doesn't have animations when he combos. Panunu mentioned it himself.

[@gragasapmidlane6761]

@@Geheimnis-c2e its an animation cancel i played with an without vandal gragas and with vandal gragas i never had "couldnt pop q cuz stun moment" like i had on normal gragas cuz the q reactivate can be cancelled with vandal gragas making it instant during w...

[@sirpoopsalot5285]

Well... Champs standing point blank in Rumble's fixed direction take more damage than if he was doing a spin spin.

[@jym2r]

you didnt explain why you only showed how..

[@cukuceral]

That's good to know, don't use night bringer against a rumble

[@gabsvly8660]

subnautica soundtrack, nice

[@iSpamLariat]

This doesn't even explain why the nightbringer skin does this, only that it does. Misleading title.

[@aoduyhung4620]

even more amazing combo E Q R is very suitable for nightbringer skin when R skill has only 1 slash

[@berksaglam876]

Doesnt that also means that nightbrimger skins takes more damage?

[@joaquinginestet4813]

Best for his teammates but bad for the yasuo taking damage. If has the shield doesn't afect

[@joachimpare-balle7174]

Fnatic Jarvan Can Q + E instead of E + Q