Talk:Lee Sin/@comment-24496127-20140716033238/@comment-9705522-20140718193923

No, im pulling the "correlation equals causation if the correlation is still the case after you take out all other factors that could explain the correlation". In other words, if the only factor that remains is the one that im talking about, that factor has to be responsible. This is the case here. There are a lot of factors for jungle variety. Meta. Huge buffs and Nerfs. Item changes. And so on. If you take the times where Lee was nerfed, it gets obvious. Because one of the times, the following happened: Lee was nerfed. There were no other huge nerfs or buffs. The meta remained the same. No item changes. No roster changes. The only thing that changed is Lee getting weaker. Boom, more variety.

Actually, the problem with Lee is that he is a master of all trades. He breaks the first rule of the balance paradigm Riot uses, perfect imbalance. Rule one of perfect imbalance is "there can be no character that is good at everything. If there is, there is no point of picking anyone else".

Imagine a fighting a game. Lets say there are 20 characters. They are all collected in matchup data. Lets say there is character X. Character X has an average of 80% matchup win rate. He dominates most matchups, but loses against some. Now lets imagine character Y. He has an average win rate of 60%. Clearly, character X is better, right? Not if its like this. Character Y has an average win rate of 60%. This also happens to be his win rate in EVERY matchup. Now, its clear who is better. Y. Because he is always inclined to win.

Now imagine the competitive scene. EVERYONE would pick character Y. Noone would pick anything else, because why would you pick character Z, who does 5 things good and 4 things bad, when you can pick character Y, who does everything good? This is what Lee is. There is a minor difference however. This game isnt 1v1, its 5v5. So there are still niche requirements. So there are still junglers who can be picked for filling a unique, wanted niche (Eve). Outside of that however, its either pick Lee, or the next best one (Elise).

Except we do. If Lee gets gutted, the jungle gets more variety. You would see a lot more stuff. Although, probably not Yi or Xin. Instead, Jarvan, Aatrox, maybe sejuani, amumu, pantheon and what not. On a funny sidenote, Lee is actually easy mode, Yi is not. So you got that mixed up. I mean, its Yi. He is a melee carry reliant on proper usage of his Q. The reaction time requirement is through the roof.