3 words. Thank Fucking God. Riot should just give up on him & stop granting him random-ass buffs next time. There's other junglers who deserves to be in the spotlight once in a while.
Athenes Lulu40 votesDon't forget Thresh!
This is the first year since his release that Thresh wasn't a top support pick either.
Shield Boi23 votesRakan is the new thresh
Athenes Lulu12 votesI mean, he's the "Lee Sin support" after all...
kullehh1 votesno no he is the thresh adc , wtf are you even trying to say lmao
Häxel5 votesthresh was literaly not picked 2016. At elast 2017 he had some picks. 2016 was the year of Karma, Lulu and Zyra. A bit similar to Lee sin. Wasn't a toppick in 2016 and in 2015 he got even less picked. Gragas was there just the better Lee Sin. Lee just got his comeback with Gragas Ultchange and during Preseason. Till Msi he dominated quite a bit, but after that graga claimed back Lees Place.
Bolwinkel1 votesWhy pick thresh when you can pick ArDeNt CeNsOr?
TEA Nietzsche 1 votesOh I am so glad that we saw all those exciting Janna and Lulu picks! Too bad only that we couldn't see Soraka this year.
Also I kind of miss 2016 meta with Karma, Zyra and MF, those were the best support picks!
Seriously though: what's wrong with wanting to see Thresh, Blitzcrank, Alistair and Braum? Tank supports are just neat and cool without being that obnoxious.
Athenes Lulu1 votesRaka was picked a few times in Worlds this year, actually.
I don't have an issue with seeing tank supports, but considering that they've been dominating the pro scene since season 4, it's moreso a change thing that enchanters are back in competitive meta.
I know, they're not always entertaining to watch and that soloQ became a disaster as a result, but hey, somewhat wider variety of ADCs and supports in competitive this year, I'll take it.
TEA Nietzsche 1 votesdominating the pro scene since season 4
That's a funny way of spelling that tanks are getting dominated by enchanters and mages for two seasons in a row.
Also especially funny seeing how a large part of season 4 was dominated by mages as season 4 was the release of the support items and thus the prime time of Annie support (which got again picked up in season 5).
Also, I don't think we saw a very wide variety of ADC's at all and supports were extremely boring for the most part - Janna/Lulu in nearly every game is extremely boring. Finally, you have to keep in mind that we now have 10 bans in competitive which has increased the variety in picks for the most part. Taking that into consideration makes the current botlane meta even more stale.
Hawkefire1 votesIn fairness, the only reason Thresh wasn't was because he doesn't synergize with 
Remlap12238 votesHoly shit y'all, its 2017, can we stop pretending that Lee Sin is still Free Win?
BeatzBoyFTW36 votesLee Sin was always forcibly the staple boy for every Worlds ever. Other junglers like 
didn't even get the chance to shine at all, as Riot will always constantly give Lee Sin the baby-buffs he needs to be somewhat "relevant" for pro players.
quasistellar1 votesI just poured one out for Fiddlesticks. Forever unpicked as a competitive jungler (that I know of).
Death by Glamour1 voteshe was in finals last year :P
quasistellar1 votesAs a jungler? I thought I remembered fid just being picked as support. I honestly don't remember.
Death by Glamour1 votesi remember panth jungle in the same series, think it was the finals
DorkunedAuras5 votesIvern was a stable of competitive play for quite a while
HeimerLmao1 votesCuz ardent. Or Ivern after first buffs and before the nerfs.
flibitydoo2 votesardent was still strong when ivern died
what really killed him (and karma remember her?) was 
going from 20% cdr to 10%. this meant that capping CDR super fast as ivern and spamming shields and snares every 5 seconds became impossible.
and despite that cdr reduction being a requested change amongst support mains (including myself), no one buys this item more than they used to and it's global purchase rate actually went down since the two semi-popular viable champs (ivern and karma) fell off the meta train.
Great Fox1 votesStaple*
An Undead brat2 votesThey made a stable out of Ivern?! MURDERERS!
BoilTheOil2 votesIvern being strong is a mistake needs a rework
DuskDaUmbreon1 votesIvern was super common for a while. The hell kinda crack are you smoking to think he didn't get his chance to shine?
BeatzBoyFTW1 votesHe was only picked twice in this year's Worlds & that's his 1st appearance ever...
IcyPepper1 votesOp... didn't...?
Villainous V7 votesTo be fair. Gragas is a better Lee Sin than Lee Sin
Electro5224 votesIt depends on how you look at it. Lee Sin is better in skirmishes, whereas Gragas is better in teamfights.
Grubner7 votesbut in reality, they are both junglers with overpowered movement based kits, which is why they are always picked.
TehNACHO8 votesGragas has a movement based kit? Lee Sin is easy to understand but one dash that collides does not hyper-mobile make.
LinoWidge3 votesMovement based as in disruption of enemy position? IDK... Grasping @ straws here...
Villainous V2 votesYou have a point there, but while Gragas isn't the most mobile champ he does most of the things that Lee does just as well if not better. Mainly looking at his R.
Grubner3 votesLets see if you can spot the difference.
Champion A: Uses a dash to get into a position where he can knock you back into his team.
Champion B: Uses a dash to get into a position where he can knock you back into his team.
They are the same champion, there are two tiny differences. Gragas is slightly tankier, and Lee sin has to get behind you using another dash, while Gragas simply throws the cask behind you, In the end, the effect is 90% the same.
flibitydoo1 votesgragas has a kit where you're not allowed to move after he gets 40% cdr
HeartPalpitation1 votesTo be fair. Gragas is a better Lee Sin than Lee Sin
you could not have said it better, dash with AOE cc>just a dash, multi-man knockback>one knockback that is reliant on using a summoner spell, AOE % health damage w> 1 single target ranged skill shot, hell even his q is a better slow than lee sins e LOL
xJLx MCHammer6 votesHe was picked more than 80% of other junglers
BeatzBoyFTW16 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/user/EpicSkillshot/videos
Find me that "80%".
If this isn't enough:
Lee Sin picked at Worlds 2016: 37 Lee Sin picked at Worlds 2017: 4
xJLx MCHammer13 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/user/EpicSkillshot/videos
Find me that "80%".
If this isn't enough:
Lee Sin picked at Worlds 2016: 37 Lee Sin picked at Worlds 2017: 4
BY OP.gg stats,
there are 41 Jungler. Lee was pick more than a huge chunk of them
BUT i understand your post
WTBeGirl100EUhr3 votes5 junglers picked more than Lee Sin. 1 played the same amount, 34 played less. 34 is 83% of 41, the total number of junglers listed on OP.GG.
There is your 80%.
xJLx MCHammer1 votes5 junglers picked more than Lee Sin. 1 played the same amount, 34 played less. 34 is 83% of 41, the total number of junglers listed on OP.GG.
There is your 80%.
Thank you
I didn't want to bother with the math to prove my point
Zed genius6 votesLee sin loses a big part of his kit in competitive. Custom games do not grant you mastery points, so they don't have access to the mastery 7 emote, which is fundamental in lee sin's kit
Shadow Hazard2 votesThis is mostly a factor of tanks being way too overtuned.
Blåbæret2 votesThe sad part is that he's coming back into the meta right now.
the weeaboo2 votesYe instead we get 
but hey at least its not LS haha
rtbf2256182411 votesI believe it's more due to the fact that he is too squishy and has a little too telegraphed of an effect on his enemies, not to mention he is in no position to break the shields at Worlds. He was useless mainly because Bot lane was beyond too powerful there and Galio is a pretty good counter to him aswell.
DorkunedAuras1 votesIt says something about how ungodly the peel and shields were when Lee Sin, whose whole job is to insec a carry into his team to be eaten, can't do shit in the extremely ADCcentric meta.
HeimerLmao1 votesRight. If he kicked something like da void puppy boi it would end with penta for Kog.
Unvictus1 votesDon’t forget Orianna. She has always been a relevant pick in the mid lane. This has to be the year that she was played the least. Was so glad to not see her in every single game.
Bronze 6 Yasuo1 votesNo. I like lee sin because he actually takes skill unlike sejuani.
Knalxz1 votesReminds me of a friend who'd was furious every time Lee Sin got one of those random buffs because he always felt he was in an okay spot the BAAM, random buff coming out a week later.
He's stayed quietly lately out of fear to my knowledge.
Ideal Gas Law1 votesThat just means Lee Sin isn't good enough for Riot. Expect a buff next patch