Lee Sin: Still defining the jungle meta, 4 seasons later.
I have to ask, as an avid Diamond I jungler for 5 seasons, why Lee Sin is the only jungler that is still absolutely, ridiculously broken. For all the jungle changes, he is still going to be picked in most competitive games. His mobility is out of control with even the slightest concept of the champion and he only needs to build one damage item for the entire game to out damage most other junglers. If you cannot compete with Lee Sin in the jungle, you cannot jungle. There is no other jungler that has been this persistently overpowered throughout every season. We've even seen Rioters come right out and say that if he wasn't so popular he would've been nerfed long ago, yet here we are, 4 seasons later with the same stale jungle meta because champions like this continue to dominate no matter what the jungle items are, or how difficult the camps may be.
There's a simple way to open up the jungle to other characters and that's getting rid of ridiculous characters that no one else can realistically compete against. Riot was fine doing it to Elise, they didn't bat an eye when they did it to Eve, so I think it's about time we bring the golden boy down from S-tier.
because he was a solid fit in any team composition. His nerfs were definitely warranted.
Also suffers from the same issue. He fits into EVERY team comp. Riot stated that they want "strategic diversity" and that champions should be picked depending on what type of game you want to play (ie Stall comp, Poke comp exc.) It's time for Riot to follow through with their plan and nerf this son of a bitch that's been terrorizing the jungle for 4 seasons as mentioned by the OP.
on live is as broken as any jungler ever and vastly more broken than Lee on live.