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In the last few months, Lee Sin's entire Kit was buffed because of an indirect nerf.

Wukong Airways·6/14/2018, 2:25:07 PM·17 votes·2,442 views

I'll just list the patches, buffs, and reasons why he "needed" them according to Riot's point of view.

v8.6 Passive - Flurry FIRST ATTACK ENERGY RETURN : [20] ⇒ 20/25/30 (at levels 1/7/13) SECOND ATTACK ENERGY RETURN : [10] ⇒ 10/12.5/15 (at levels 1/7/13)

Resonating Strike.Q - Resonating Strike RANGE : [1100] ⇒ 1200

Dragon's Rage.R - Dragon's Rage BASE DAMAGE : [150/300/450] ⇒ 150/375/600

Reason: Losing Tracker's Knife has taken away some of the consistency of Lee Sin's playmaking potential. We're looking to put some of that back into his kit.

v8.11 Passive - Flurry ENERGY RESTORED ON FIRST HIT : [20/25/30] ⇒ 20/30/40 ENERGY RESTORED ON SECOND HIT : [10/12.5/15] ⇒ 10/15/20

Reason: Recent changes to Warding Trinket have left Lee Sin with fewer playmaking opportunities. Making sure he benefits fully from cooldown reduction should give him more to do with his baseline kit, and we also want to make sure he has more access to the energy needed to do so.

v8.12

**W - Safeguard / Iron Will ** COOLDOWN : [14] ⇒ 12 seconds Tempest. E - Tempest BASE DAMAGE : [70/105/140/175/210] ⇒ 80/120/160/200/240

Reason:Last patch's buffs didn't go far enough in bringing Lee back **up **from the Warding Totem changes, so we're giving him a few more buffs.

As you can see, The balance team won't stop until Lee Sin is brought back {up} to where he belongs, the godtier junglers,

Maybe my point of view is wrong, but why losing a "vision" item lead to buffing a 15% pick ratio champ's entire kit? oh he's sitting on 48% win ratio which used to be considered balanced 2-3 seasons ago compared to his pick ratio and you want him to go at least 50%? Yeah that makes sense, mb

Let's keep MonkeyKing passiveless and in the gutter for another 3 years while we keep buffing Lee Sin because {Changes to Warding Trinket have left Lee Sin with fewer playmaking opportunities}.

21 Comments

Who Fed Ru6/14/2018, 2:41:54 PM23 votes

Can't believe you actually just called MonkeyKing weak and LeeSin strong lmao

http://euw.op.gg/statistics/champion/

Krully6/14/2018, 3:24:56 PM13 votes

fuck assassin wukong

Killer of Night96/14/2018, 2:44:09 PM4 votes

I don't know if the ward nerf was necessary.. But they could just give to lee sin a passive that if he bought a jungler item he could get a 'ward' that provide no vision. It work like tracker but it won't give vision.

y0r1ck6/14/2018, 2:34:46 PM3 votes

Wait isn't wukong good as an assassin right now? And he definitely has more of a passive than yorick.

thanosmystery6/14/2018, 3:01:47 PM2 votes

yasuo got buffed on a patch that is full of indirect buffs for him and you complain about lee getting buffed? -_-

Khristophoros6/14/2018, 2:37:36 PM2 votes

Because Riot only cares about high pick rate champs lmao

Ionian Vulpix6/14/2018, 4:17:39 PM1 votes

Get rid of ward hopping, give Lee a free target dash AND a targeted dash on his W. If he uses it without targeting an ally (free target), it has a massive cooldown (say 60 seconds). If he uses it on an ally, it gets a much lower CD and they both get the shield.

Removing of ward hopping would also hurt Jax, but the eggplant needs a rework too.

SwiftKitten886/14/2018, 5:03:42 PM1 votes

the removal of trackers knife was beyond stupid.

lee sin wasn't the only jungler that got hit,, although because of his ward hop he did get hit the hardest.

GreenHydralisk6/14/2018, 5:14:09 PM1 votes

Lee Sin is pretty weak right now and he is also high skill champion. His job is dominate early game but there are other champions like xin and graves that can do his job much better .