What are Lee Sin's strengths and weaknesses supposed to be?
So, Riot are looking to nerf Lee Sin, with the current idea being to take away some of the damage on his ultimate. I think just straight nerfing his numbers isn't the right solution.
Lee Sin has an identity problem. He is a generalist jungler, who is above average to excellent at a large array of different things. I feel that in order for him to be a truly healthy champion, he needs to have clear and specific strengths and weaknesses - areas where he excels and areas where he performs poorly, and reasons why you might pick him compared to another champion.
Right now he has:
Strengths:
- Extremely high mobility
- High safety (that is, he can often use his kit to get out of sticky situations)
- Excellent objective control due to execute (second only to the objective champions like Nunu and Cho'gath)
- Picking priority targets (with insec)
- Manaless (means he can give up his first blue to bolster mid lane)
- Strong ganks
- Strong duellist
- Strong disengage / peel
- Hard to escape (one of the only junglers that you can't flash away from, since if he tags you with his mark, he has a very long time to decide to go in)
Strengths (lesser)
- Above-average burst damage
- Above average chasing (high movement speed, high mobility)
- Decent sustain (not amazing)
- Stealth reveal
Weaknesses:
- Skillshot reliant (somewhat)
- Somewhat lackluster lategame (though can still make good picks)
- Energy-user
- Mêlée
Fallacies:
- High mechanical complexity
I'm mentioning this as a fallacy because I don't believe that being mechanically complex is a valid criteria for balance.
Which of these are supposed to be Lee Sin's specific strengths and weaknesses?
