People saying after Lee buffs even bad Lee's will be good

Lee is more reliable than Pantheon or Shaco early game? Are we even playing the same game? I'm not afraid of being ganked early by Lee Sin unless my champion is absolutely terrible at escaping ganks, I'm terrified of both Pantheon and Shaco. I don't know why I'm even arguing this with you; you haven't played a single ranked Lee Sin game in the past 4 seasons, not to mention you're a solid 1000 elo below me. Lee Sin hasn't been "dominant" in nearly 2 years and is always inferior to whatever junglers are currently FOTM unless you're an absolute Lee Sin god. Lee Sin is garbage in low elo and slightly above average in super high elo and competitive play. That is hardly broken; that's just called being a high skill champion. Are you honestly afraid of enemy teams picking Lee Sin? Because when I love when the enemy team picks Lee Sin because he's fucking bad.

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how is his kit broken

To give you an idea (not sure if you really have no idea but I'll bite), in previous tournaments he used to sport a pick/ban ratio of 90% which means if he wasn't picked, he would be banned. And in each of those tournaments, no matter how small they were, Lee would always maintain a 50+% win rate in all of them despite already having a 90% pick/ban ratio.

That means, whenever Lee was in a game, the team who had him was more likely to win. His presence alone was guaranteed enough to make the match unfair by a somewhat large margin from the get go without fail, even in tournament level. That's when he was viable, that's how problematic his kit is.

Sure you can argue that not everyone is some pro scene hot pants and game fundamentally can't be 100% balanced and I would be partially agreeing with you as those statements are not wrong. However what is wrong here is the notion of accepting something this blatantly broken in a game where the company should strive to make it as balanced as it possibly can, and instead just pass it off saying that "we don't need to care as we aren't pros". I find this particular mindset which a lot of people have, very depressing.

But back onto the point. It all comes down to Lee having way too much than he should chew up in his sleeves. So as a result, when his numbers are okay, he is broken and toxic to play against. And when his numbers are not okay, he becomes a garbage who happens to run very fast.

This should have alerted the rework crew ages ago, dunno what has been keeping them at bay.

By having so much options at his disposal. Playing against a competent Lee is a complete nightmare.

You can't fight him due to crazy base damage and high scaling. You can't run from him. He has 2 mobility tools at his disposal, as well as a slow and a large knockback. Oh,a nd one of highest move speeds in game. And of course, no matter how bad he fucks up, it's very hard to punish him because, again, he has so many ways to disengage.

Basically, against good Lee, you either fight him on his terms or don't fight him at all. That said, Lee is not broken by definition; he could take some numerical changes and/or lose some parts of his kit and still be good.

He could lose some of base damage or scaling. His Q has 340 + 1.8 AD, which is one of the highest in both base and scaling - and that's without the %HP portion, mind you. His ultimate is a point-and-click hard CC on a very low cool down, and yet it's base damage and scaling rival those of nuke/execution ultimates.

He could use getting punished for fucking up. Lower his base move speed. Make him actually have to hit a skillshot instead of going "Fuck, I missed. I'm just going to outrun them anyway." We could increase his energy costs and buff his passive. Make him put himself into vulnerable position if he overuses his abilities. Increase the energy cost of first Q, reduce the energy cost of second Q. Or increase the cooldown if he misses Again, punish him for misplaying.

Also, he could use losing one of the biggest buffs he ever received - make him unable to jump to trinket wards. Ward jumping is way out of his power budget already - but note that I'm not asking to remove it. I'm just asking it to be removed from trinket wards. Sightstone and regular wards are fairplay - he uses up an item slot and gold for that. But trinket ward jumps are just bullshit - the trinket is essentially a second Flash for Lee.