diff --git a/dev-python/requests/requests-2.22.0.ebuild b/dev-python/requests/requests-2.22.0.ebuild
index 8fbf084fa..285360d37 100644
--- a/dev-python/requests/requests-2.22.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/requests/requests-2.22.0.ebuild
@@ -23,8 +23,10 @@ RDEPEND="
 	<dev-python/chardet-3.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/idna-2.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	<dev-python/idna-2.9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/urllib3-1.25.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/urllib3-1.21.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	<dev-python/urllib3-1.26[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	!~dev-python/urllib3-1.25.0
+	!~dev-python/urllib3-1.25.1
 	socks5? ( >=dev-python/PySocks-1.5.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
 	ssl? (
 		>=dev-python/cryptography-1.3.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]