Talk:Lee Sin/@comment-71.235.68.85-20120411105755/@comment-24.171.17.230-20120412011523

Honestly cookie cutter builds aren't optimal on a champion like Lee sin. Going straight for a bruiser build while ignoring the variables of a match could be detrimental to your team. In regards to the boots/wriggles/merc core, that I agree with. However for every item after that they should really be chosen with the enemy team and your team in mind.

If your ganks early on have led to a huge lead over the enemy team, take into consideration who the enemy champions are. If they have lots of CC and burst damage that can hurt you mid game, itemizing for a beefy Lee sin would be good.

However, if you feel like you can survive as a glass cannon a little longer before late game arrives, take the chance to get more DPS and hold your lead over the enemy. If the enemy is having a hard time catching up in farm and objectives like dragon and they're lacking gold, itemizing in DPS will hurt them a lot more since they can't buy enough defensive items to stop you from snowballing.

On the other hand, if your team is falling behind, a tanky route is probably the better option. This is when you itemize for things like HoG's and resistances so that you can earn gold for the long haul and last through mid game into late game.

The order in which you itemize is really important and you can't always grab the same 6 items in the same order because all games aren't going to start the same way.