Lee Sin

Arena changes

• Q: Cooldown changed to 8.5 to 4.5 seconds.
• W: Shield strength changed to 70 to 350.
• W: Life steal and spell vamp changed to 15 to 35%.
• E: Base damage changed to 55 to 195.
• E: Slow strength changed to 40 to 80%.²

Ability Power Ratio changed to 120% in patch 26.19 (was 80%)³

• Lee Sin can be built for full AP or full lethality.⁴

• Lee Sin can be played with AP and support items for large shields and healing.⁵
• Lee Sin's passive restores energy and grants attack speed after he uses an ability.⁶
• Energy can limit how often Lee Sin uses abilities when taking cooldown reduction.⁷
• With good cooldown reduction, Lee Sin can ramp up and dive bomb, but he cannot stack the shield on himself multiple times like Milio can.⁸
• Lee Sin can use Twin Fire for extra damage on a spell hit, and he can use critical strike.⁹

Earlier formats

Patch 14.14 fixed a bug that let Lee Sin use Spectral Cutlass during the preparation phase and remain in combat.¹¹ 8x2 duos

Patch 14.14 fixed a bug that kept Lee Sin's Sonic Wave (Q1) from being affected by Skilled Sniper.¹² 8x2 duos

• With Dashing or the E cooldown augment, AP Lee Sin can have strong shields.¹³ 8x2 duos
• AP Lee Sin can be useful for buffing a teammate.¹⁴ 8x2 duos
• A ward trinket would be useful for Lee Sin.¹⁵ 8x2 duos
• Lee Sin can be built for full shielding; a mix of bruiser, assassin and healer items does not fit this approach.¹⁶ 8x2 duos
• A two-augment synergy was used for a high-damage Lee Sin build.¹⁷ 8x2 duos
• Lee Sin's Q can visually appear to miss because its beam comes from his hand while its hitbox comes from his feet; his size can make the Q appear to miss the target.¹⁸¹⁹ 8x2 duos