As a Lee Sin player this new pathfinders knife is a terrible change
Unique Active: Control: Consumes a charge to place a Control Ward. Charges are refilled by killing Large Monsters in the enemy jungle or returning to the shop.
i know imma get alot of hate because these boards hate Lee but hear me out.
This is a pretty big indirect nerf to lee. Not only did you guys remove the option of getting a sight stone recently, you are now removing an extra ward on the jungle item which Lee heavily relies on. Now i get you can recharge by taking an enemy camp but that is not a solution for lee as invading and stealing camps is 80% of the time a dangerous task. Lee isnt as strong as he used to be many champions can straight up out duel lee these days so invading isnt always a good idea so the recharge isnt really compensation for losing a charge of the ward. Not to mention you are killing diversity in the jungle by haphazardly throwing all 3 jungle items into one. If you wanna lower vision with green smite then make the ward you get last not as long as a traditional ward or something...
. Perhaps you could too, or spend enough of the early game charging a
through ganks? I don't know. The medallion costs about the same as a Sightstone, but you'd still be limited on the early game. Still..... if you rushed it, being around a lane for about 6 kills and about 7-8 Large minion kills, you'd probably have enough gold to get the 3 Ward Medallion. (It's also going to get + 10 move speed, which would be neat on a Lee). If you had both, you'd have a perma Control ward, and a 3 perma wards. It'd take up a slot, but not like Sightstone didn't.
let you have a free sightstone, because buying a support item (or sightstone, if it was still around) would tank Lee's power all around, especially late game.