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Lee Sin General Guide by

Lee Sin and Repeat (Jungle) S6 not a Dia 5 pleb

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Choose Champion Build:

Standard Jungle Lee sin

Spells:

Flash

Smite

Items

Start Items

First Core Items

Against AD

Against Ap

Offensive choices

AD Jungle Items

Balanced build

Balanced build more Ad

Ability Order

Lee Sin Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Introduction

Introduction

Hello, I created this Guide because he is one of the strongest and most picked junglers at the moment. He has great mobility, which allows him to counterjungle and countergank like no other Champion in the Game. is also my most played Champion in Ranked and he accompanied my way into Diamond.

Notes about me:I am in Diamond and my mostly played champ is . I most likely play Jungle and Marksman / Adc. My favorite champs are Noctrune. I like to play Ad Champs with high mobility.

// SPECIAL THANKS: Credits to jhoijhoi for the template, which you can find here.

Pros and Cons

Pros / Cons

Pros

+ Great mobility
+ Strong early on
+ Counterjungling
+ Strong mid
+ Insec kick
If you are able to make some big plays with Lee early on, you are far ahead

Cons

- Falls off late
- weak if behind
- weak against mage
- needs lots of practise
- not much CC
You should keep in mind, that it is rly hard to get back into the game once you are behind.

Ability Details

Flurry

If you play Lee Sin You need to use your full efficiency of your passive.
An explanation Sonic wave, 2 auto attacks, Resonating strike. If you master the passive,
you can clear the jungle even faster. Also use your spells if you want to push towers for the
attackspeed.

RESONATING STRIKE

Sonic wave / Resonating strike

You always should wait as long as possible to use your Sonic Wave / Resonating Strike
so the enemy blows his flash. You also should wait until you throw your Sonic Wave
because the enemy is trying to dodge it. I max it first, beause it deals the most dmg and
i am able to hit my Sonic Wave. Throw it into bushes, so you don't need the facecheck.

Safeguard

Safeguard / Iron will

Use it to gank! You can Dash to your minion, Use Tempest / Cripple and then hit your
Sonic Wave. Since iron will gives you lifesteal AND Spellvamp, you can use your Smite
to get Hp back. I will showcase it later in my Combo Videos!

CRIPPLE

Tempest / Cripple

You should remeber that you can reveal Champions like Twitch or Shaco with it,
so cast it then, when you think they are about to hide in the shadows, or going into a bush.
It also scales with Ad, while it is deadling magic damage!

Dragon's rage

Dragon's rage

It is a amazing tool for ganks, since you can knock the enemys back. You can kick enemys back to safe you and allies, or to kick a enemy carry into your team. And ofcours!
TO KS!but you guys all know that ks stands for kill secure.

Masteries

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OFFENSE TREE

So I go 21 points into this tier, so I get a lot of damage for the early game. I take for the extra damage against minions and the Cd reduction, so I can use my passive more frequently. I wouldn't reccomend to use any points for the attackspeed, since it it pretty bad. You just waste 4 Points. So is pretty good. with you Q, since it also scales with missing Hp. Then you just take the standard Ad stuff. A little note, the 6% armor/magig penetration is also nice, because your deals magical damage.

Defense

So I go 9 Points into this tier, i take the extra armor and go for .
I take the bonus health for a bit of sustain and tankyness + the 3% more Hp. is pretty usless in my opinion. You also can go with the Champion basic attack block. However it could be an option to go 9/21 and take all the expensive defense masteries if you got no tank in your team.

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Runes

Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage:Standard A Runes, you also could run 2 Lifesteal runes. Maybe you want to take amor Pen for more dmg late (don't like it that much)
Greater Mark of Attack Damage:Flat Ad for more early damage
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist:You need the magic res later, and magi resist is expensive, thats why you take the scalling runes.
Greater Seal of Armor:Standard armor runes, for every jungler

Summoner spells

Summoner Spells

:It is a pretty standard summoner
spell, but i feel it is really great on to

Standard Summoner spell for every Jungler, not only for faster and safer clearing, but also to secure and

is Ok on , i still prefer to kick someone into your team.

is great if you want to kill the enemy jungler early, it is very agressiv.
High risk, high reward.

So, when should I pick Lee sin

You should pick if you want to give your team a early game advantage!
This is optimal if
- your team is full ad and you don't want to play Ap jungle (5Ad needs to snowball)
- Your early game is strong, and the enemy got a stronger late game
- You can pick into EVERY enemy Jungler, There is no real counter for
-He is fun to play

Items

Item Sequence

The is a really great item. You should purchase it, if the enemy got 2-4 Ad Chars. Is one of the best defensive items, if you are ahead.
I just can recommend it. You shoudn't buy it in the later stages of the game since the passiv isn't hat great anymore!

Also a great Item! You can built it against Ap and Ad(You should care that your enemy aren't doing health %damage! i woudn't recommend it against ,
other champions also with a bit of % dmg are , and more.

I always build it, if the enemy got a lot of Ad, and attackspeed. It's always good to have a Randuin's in your team.

A really good Item against Ap caster, if you don't want to buy for damage, is your Magic resi. item number one.

Gives you more damage and magic resistance. A nice passiv that gives you more damage, but you don't get any health.

This item is a core item for lee sin, it gives you more
opportunities or You just can ward your jungle, or ward the enemy jungle for safe counterjungling.

I like on a lot. I think it is better
then a , since your abailities scale really good with Armor Penetration.

You can buy it, but i don't like it that much, since it is really expensive. If you got early on much gold it is good to snowball.

is a good item if you get ahead, you can counterjungle more and you deal more damage. I often build it if i am ahead. If you want you can sell it later.
or upgrade it to the

i don't like that much, You can built it for Dps top , also i prefer to built on him. After the nerfs it got it't not that strong.

A really great Item for Lee sin!, If the enemy got something like a
you should buy it over .

I don't buy that Item too often, since i think you won't carry with that Item.
It's also not that good early on. I only built it, if the enemy got a lot of AOE damage
and some more.

Boots

I like them alot, if the enemy got a lot of Ad or the Adc got some kills, you always can built .

Built them if you can gank the lanes, since you are really fast with them. are also great to escape/chase.

If you didn't build for the 35% and the team got a lot off CC buit .

Talking about jungle items

With the new jungle changes you can this new smite spells. I just want to talk about it fast.

JUNGLE ITEMS:

The best jungleitem you can get for in my opinion. You can enemy champions and slow them down to land your . Be aware that you steal the movmentspeed of your enemy! So you should enemys when they have a movement speed buff, and should't if they are already slowed.

You can buy this item on your first back and replace it later for if you want to gank. I would recommend to replace it when you are around level 6.

I would't reccomend taking this, because you need to get a lot of aa (auto attacks) on the enemy to be relevant.

This item is just bad. The enemy sees that you build it and they will ward their jungle if they aren't stupid. The reduced Cd is worthless because you can only take 2 camps anyway (in rare cases 3 because of a buff). It's garbage, trash whatever you wanna call it.[(columns]

Jungle list

Jungle list
The strongest Jungler in Solo Queue are probably

1.Weak Jungler- easy to kill:

2.Ok Jungler- is stronger early: (hard before 6)

3. Strong/equal
[Vi]]

Note: Care about jungler like and because their passiv allows them to stay alive longer, meaning that enemy mid laner can kill you.

You really should care if you want to kill a jungler who is in list 3,
it is really hard and if you don't get level 3 because you didn't smited his red, you are pretty much dead. You still can beat a and a , but are the strongest level 3 Jungler. is a bit tricky, since he can jump away.You shoudn't die to him, but he could counterjungle you! Try to keep your jungle entrances warded. If you use your on invisible units, you see them but if you follow up with a you lose the vision of them. So always be sure to use your after you jumped onto your enemy.

Ability Combo

Damage Combo:

Throw your Use and follow up with a

Insec kick (easy) :Throw your follow up with
behind your enemy, and him back . You can also use your first, and flash behind him before the kick goes off.

Insec kick (medium) : Throw your follow up with a ,use to slow the enemy. Walk ahead of your enemy, then use
to kick him back. I recommend this tactic if you got some time and the enemy got no hard CC

Insec kick (hard) : Throw your follow up with a , place a ward behind your enemy, to the ward, and use to kick him back. If you perform that really fast you can do it without dealing the damage.

Early game

Early game goals

In the early game you try to gank, whenever the opportunity is there.
You also should counterjungle. (Only Counterjungle if you know that the enemy Jungler isn't there) Ward the enemy jungle if they got a weak Jungler like
try to take this buffes, and keep warded, since this is the job of the jungler and the support, you also should ward for teammates who didn't bought a ward so far.

Note: If you see the enemy Jungler top, try to get the dragon if possbile!(works great if top got )

Mid Game

The Mid Game is more about objectives, you push towers and fight for dragon. Your job as a jungler is to keep warded. At minute 20 you should have warded too.
Try to kick enemy carrys into your team or just defend your own carrys (team).
You also can kick out people like , and with their ultimate.
Or a who is jumping on your carry.

Late Game

In the late game falls of, like most of the junglers do. Junglers who are early weak, are shining in the late game. so still could be usefull, if he is able to kick an enemy carry into the team. You also just can protect your carrys. Don't go alone and ward with your . Try to the enemy carry
and out. Steal if there is no other way to win anymore.
If you want to steal it , hit your follow up with a ,
and smite right before you hit the
in the next Chapter i explain it more detailed.

What to do when behind!

steal : You need to stay behind baron
and throw some wards into the area, hit baron with follow up with it and to a which you place outside of

My Jungle start

You may want to start in your bottom jungle so your bot lane can help you if you are on the blue side, you want to start at krugs (golems) smite them early and then go for your red.
on the red side you start with gromp and go for the blue. Remeber to smite early because you get the buff instantly.

Jungle Tipps

1. If you gank a lane and you kill the enemy laner or force him to back, push the lane to the
tower. The lane will reset and the enemy laner is losing Cs / Exp.

2.Keep an eye on the minimap, if you see the enemy is ganking top / mid. Punish it and counterjungle if you can. You also can ward the blue buff and just it away, when the Jungler is trying to give it to his Mid laner.

3.Mirror the path of the enemy Jungler and Countegank Top / Mid.

4. If you see your laner is pushing and you expect the enemy jungler to gank, be there to countergank him.

5. If you got a weak early laner, someone like or i wouldn't recommend to gank there without vision, since you can get counterganked easily.