The reason why Lee is more picked/banned than others and how to fix him

Wukong Airlines··22 votes·1,984 views

is the second part of his Q [110 / 140 / 170 (+ 90% bonus AD) (+ 8% of target's missing health)] to be more specific, the additional 8% of target's missing health. If this were to be removed, I'm sure many other champs will be able to compete with him in the jungle.

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EndlessSorcerer10 votes

You mean it isn't because his Q deals 100/160/220/280/340 + (180% bonus AD)?

LankPants3 votes

+8% missing HP

AirKingNeo2 votes

He's saying the AD ratio and/or base damage is too high.

An Enemy Sutando1 votes

I don't see a problem with Lee's bases being above average if he's supposed to be an early-game terror, but I don't get why he gets such high AD scalings to boot. It makes no sense for what he's supposedly intended to be.

2B Father Servo8 votes

Lee Sin's high pickrate is due to that he is fun to play and his an enabler for his team, Kayn while also being fun to play should alleviate Lee Sin's winrate.

Wukong Airlines16 votes

Orianna Caitlyn must be fun to play with too

Officially1 votes

I actually really enjoy playing both of these champs

SEKAI13 votes

[{quoted}](name=Irina Jelavic,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=0xvqFMca,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2017-07-06T16:12:47.483+0000)

Lee Sin's high pickrate is due to that he is fun to play and his an enabler for his team, Kayn while also being fun to play should alleviate Lee Sin's winrate.

MasterYi XinZhao Udyr's high pickrates during the FF/Devourer meta were due to that they were fun to play and they were enablers for their team...

BIH Diamond2 votes

Difference is those had high win rates. Lee doesn't.

When OCE players talk balance

Junkο1 votes

Lee Sin is a high skill cap champion while former 3 are just right click champion with only Yi having some skill expression, of course he is going to have a lower winrate.

And NA is obviously so much better than other regions,just look at how many Worlds the best of NA won! Oh wait...

BIH Diamond2 votes

And NA is obviously so much better than other regions,just look at how many Worlds the best of NA won!

Worlds S6.

TSM went 1-1 with Samsung Blue CLG went 1-1 with Rox tigers CLG went 2-0 against G2 TSM went 2-0 against Splyce

OCE? No where to be found.

Rift rivals:

NA 7-4 EU

Lee Sin is a high skill cap champion while former 3 are just right click champion with only Yi having some skill expression, of course he is going to have a lower winrate.

These champs all had 54%+ win rates during FF meta which is broken.

Why you complaining about a champ that loses more than he wins? LOL

Junkο1 votes

Wow an entire total of 6 wins by NA. How impressive. Meanwhile SKT won entire 2016 pro play with only 2 lost games.

Rift Rivals doesn't mean shit, it's barely competitive.

Why you complaining about a champ that loses more than he wins? LOL

A whooping 3% less winrate, hell it's less than 3%, on a supposedly hard to play champion that is picked and banned across more than half the games played in the entire world. Seems completely A-OK.

Keep being delusional Lee main.

BIH Diamond1 votes

Wow an entire total of 6 wins by NA.

Actually that wasn't all of our wins lol. Did you even watch worlds? Probably not.

Meanwhile SKT won entire 2016 pro play with only 2 lost games.

Yes KR is good. Your point?

Rift Rivals doesn't mean shit, it's barely competitive.

Because Eu is there lmao

A whooping 3% less winrate, hell it's less than 3%, on a supposedly hard to play champion

So you think Yasuo is OP? Yasuo is at a 50% win rate at a 5% play rate. If he had a 20% play rate like Lee he would also be at a 47% win rate.

OHminus2 votes

5 percent play rate is mostly due to his high ban rate

Yasuo being played in low elo draft modes? LUL

AirKingNeo2 votes

Being OCE has nothing to do with anything.

Sir Yamazuki4 votes

[{quoted}](name=Irina Jelavic,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=0xvqFMca,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2017-07-06T16:12:47.483+0000)

Lee Sin's high pickrate is due to that he is fun to play and his an enabler for his team, Kayn while also being fun to play should alleviate Lee Sin's winrate.

Then why did his pick rate drop a fair amount after being nerfed? It cut in half at plat+. although since his pick rate was absurdly high cutting in half still leaves him far up in first place anyways. Champion pick rates are always determined by a few factors and fun is not one of them. Sejuani was labeled by Riot as even being boring yet even she had high popularity and ban rate last season when she was over powered. The same is true for other "not interesting" champions. A champion doesn't even have to be good to be popular either, it just needs percieved strength or be endorsed/picked by the pros and people will copy.

PiVoRx6 votes

Hes picked cause he can shit on everyone and cannot be punished for mistakes.

BIH Diamond1 votes

Says the master yi abuser lmao

Junkο2 votes

Says the Gold Lee main that apparently rage quit LoL because busted champ wasn't enough to carry him.

BIH Diamond2 votes

LUL if you're going to trash talk at least do it properly. This is a smurf account. I haven't played on it in 2 years and it decayed from plat 2.

My main is in d3.

Why do you think this acc was bronze then randomly shot up the next season? HAHA

Funny how you're a yasuo main. Yasuo is actually cancerous. And you're plat 5 in EUNE with him which is gold 3 in EUW or NA

I Ban Freelo 1 votes

Yasuo Cancer

LOL

Junkο2 votes

https://i.imgur.com/xustYfT.png

D3 was my ranking before I quit LoL for about 4 months (mainly because I bought Overwatch and played the hell out of that). Can't be bothered to climb back up because autofill+Yasuo often banned by salty players. Account is currently decaying and honestly idc because it cannot decay below Gold so I still get the end of season rewards.

And you think shooting from Bronze to Gold in 1 season is impressive? Lol. I recently recovered my old EUW account which has literally Bronze-Silver MMR and people just run at me giving me free kills like I'm playing against bots.

BIH Diamond1 votes

You've never finished above d5 lmao. Not impressive in EUNE.

And you think shooting from Bronze to Gold in 1 season is impressive?

No. This account went from Bronze to Plat 2.

Junkο2 votes

You never finished in Plat smartass, and even if you did it wouldn't be impressive.

BIH Diamond1 votes

I never said finished moron. I said it was plat 2 but decayed to g1 lmao.

plat in EU is bronze in NA

Junkο2 votes

No, but you said me being D3 doesn't matter because I never finished in it. So don't bring up your alleged rank like it matters. And last time I checked D5 > P2.

Also I like how your entire argument is "No I'm better than you cause I'm from NA and NA is better than the rest of the world". Racist.

BIH Diamond1 votes

Do you know what racism is? Fucking moron.

TotalJerk7 votes

If anything they should take away more base damage and put it into that missing HP.

If Lee Sin has no incentive to use Q as an execute, that means he'll be using it to engage every single time. That also means he has no incentive to use ward hop to engage. This ultimately means that abusing his mobility becomes a lot more forgiving.

Divewing3 votes

This is the kinda thing I hate Lee for.

It's not that he has all this bs, it's that it's soooooooooooo forgiving

Starcraft243ver4 votes

There's no problem with his winrate.

If you want to make him less played, just make him unfunny to play with.

Like : if you want to buy stuff you have to complete a capcha, or smthing.

Wukong Airlines5 votes

It's not about his winrate. It's his winrate compared to his high pickrate and the overloaded kit. I'm pretty sure he'll lose a lot of power if the 8% was removed. and he wont depend on 2 damage items only to 1shot squishies

DaNinad4 votes

Thresh highest win rate pick rate, and overloaded

Cowseed1 votes

But let's all ignore him because he's a support and doesn't do damage. It's the meta that favours him and whatnot and whatnot.

Limrick2 votes

Thresh hasn't had any nerfs or buffs all season, it is actually just the meta lol.

Cowseed1 votes

I really don't like how players with obvious bias pick, choose and refuse who they believe are only strong because of 'meta'. It's the same thing with Lee sin. No buffs but he is just strong.

Limrick1 votes

Lee did get buffed. His lifesteal and spellvamp were increased.

Cowseed1 votes

Thresh hasn't had any nerfs or buffs all season, it is actually just the meta

Lee sin wasn't buffed this season either. He was only ever nerfed.

http://lol.gamepedia.com/Lee_Sin_-_The_Blind_Monk#7.10

Limrick1 votes

Lee was buffed just before Worlds and wasn't nerfed until recently. Thresh hasn't had anything for over a year.

Cowseed1 votes

Patch Notes 7.1

Modernization on E and toning down damage on R.

Quote.png It doesn’t take an experienced analyst to understand that junglers are a little out of line in 7.1. While we’re seeking to address their strength and gank uptime (more on that below), Lee Sin has unsurprisingly found himself at the top of list when it comes to effectiveness. Lee’s R-Q-Q combo is a death sentence to all but the most durable of champions, and while it’s been around for a while, the Blind Monk wasn’t enough of a problem for us to take action. Now that he’s back on top, we’re taking the opportunity to reduce the strength of the interaction - maintaining Dragon’s Rage as a powerful displacement tool, but cutting its raw effectiveness as a pure finisher. Unquote.png

Tempest.jpg E - Tempest
    THE BLIND MONK: No longer reveals invisible targets.
    ONLY YOU: Now only reveals targets damaged by Tempest (no longer reveals nearby allies of damaged targets)
DragonsRage.jpg R - Dragon's Rage
    DAMAGE: 200/400/600 ⇒ 150/300/450
Cowseed3 votes

WHY are you having a discussion about nerfing the already nerfed jungler? This is basically contrast to when everyone ignored Ivern because he's a support and didn't do damage despite being 56% or something in winrate.

So you are telling me that this champion should be NERFED soley based on the fact he's played alot? Have you ever, I mean like EVER considered that Lee has a high play rate because of something that you can't fix with Lee himself? That maybe the problems lie outside the champion. The only way you can actually lower Lee's play rate is to make him absolute trash. This is a terrible solution and exactly what your attempting to suggest. And don't give me that lame crap everyone says about 'he had his time in the spot light'. This way of thinking is what makes balance so terrible on the boards at times.

You see a champion a lot and the first thing that comes to your mind is 'I see that champion too often'. For God's sake focus on legitmate problems and I'm not sorry to tell you this but a champion with a 47% winrate is not a problem.

DaNinad1 votes

He has the 33rd win rate out of 35th for a jungler, what else do you want

DaNinad3 votes

Lee sin has a 47.3% win rate.

That's like saying ezreal was broken a few patches ago when he has the same playrate and win rate as lee sin.

Paroe2 votes

{quoted}

Lee sin has a 47.3% win rate.

That's like saying ezreal was broken a few patches ago when he has the same playrate and win rate as lee sin.

47.3 win rate with 30% pick rate. Lolno thats not balanced. a 30% pick rate would be 44% win rate. The fact that its so close to 50% despite having such a high pick rate means something is wrong.

48% win rate is what you would expect on a 5% pickrate champion. 50+ is what you would expect on a 1% pick rate champion.

DaNinad3 votes

Thresh 40% pick rate 53% win rate Caitlyn 30% pick rate 52.5% win rate

??????????????

Divewing5 votes

"These are more broken therefore that can't be broken"

<condescending question marks>

BIH Diamond1 votes

20% pick rate actually

ChaoticPinecone2 votes

How do you compare pickrate and winrate, but then completely ignore the # of games with the champion.

DunkinNoobs2 votes

Taking away the execute on a champ that is all burst is no DPS is a damn good way to make him unplayable.

Asudurga1 votes

Not if you change the missing hp damage to only affect monsters.

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