On the off chance Lee Sin is too weak with the Cripple change.

Lord Graves III·7/31/2014, 8:30:45 PM·2 votes·572 views

Hey everyone! Lee Sin just had the attack speed slow completely removed from his Cripple.

LeeSin While I don't think this will be crippling, it is a big hit to his late game. For Lee Sin players I have 2 questions.

  1. Do you feel the loss of attack speed slow was too big a nerf? Ezreal survived it on his W but Ezreal is not Lee Sin.
  2. What would you like to see done to his late game to compensate?

I thought about it and something that occurred to me was a proposed change from the really old Lee Sin changes that got canned. On their list of changes was everytime he leveled his ultimate, his passive gained I think 20% more attack speed. This came out late game to Lee Sin getting +100% attack speed on two attacks after each spell went down. On paper I loved this idea, but I am not really a hard core Lee Sin player.

What do you all think? Is Lee Sin weak, and if he is would buffing his passive be a decent compensation buff?

44 Comments

Silverclaw7/31/2014, 8:37:12 PM3 votes

I doubt that Lee Sin will go from dominant to useless within one patch the the change. He still has all the damage he had before, but is a bit harder to win duels with now. That's the only change.

Angry Monster7/31/2014, 8:51:43 PM2 votes

What do you mean to compensate? Lee was over powered. Pray that he does not get gutted more.

Skias7/31/2014, 9:39:51 PM2 votes

I think it did exactly what it was supposed to. Toned down his dueling power and nerfed his late game potential. Lee fans recognized that he had a weak late game and that is now Riots official direction. Lots of early game pressure, but if you dont make the best of it, he goes to waste. Hes much less of a safe pick.

Luner Hunter7/31/2014, 10:30:56 PM2 votes

bahahaahhaahhaah i wish that Sona was in the same boat as lee sin.... ya know that rework doe >.> fuckin ppl playing lee sin need to get the fuck over themselves he's still op he aint broke stop the QQ

12tales7/31/2014, 8:56:44 PM1 votes

I don't think buffing his passive late game would really be significant at all. Jungle Lee Sin is not realistically able to proc his passive in late game teamfights or itemize to make full use of it - whether it gives 40% or 100% attack speed.

I agree that he's relatively weak at the moment, though. I'll be interested to see how he's changed in future patches.

i cant PAUSE EET9/10/2014, 8:00:47 AM1 votes

I think that they should bring back the attack speed slow but not as much. 20/30% perhaps? Just a little bit, dont just take it out completely.