User blog comment:RoznosicielCiast/The topic that has been discussed endless times - A fix for Lee Sin/@comment-1931585-20141223204301

I didn't read through the abilities and your proposed fix, but you speak 100% truth about his kit being overloaded. This is exactly how I feel about Lee Sin and what makes him undeniably broken. He was released at the point in the game's life where they were putting a whole bunch of fancy, incoherent, and desynergizing mechanics on to new champions. Usually it ended up with a champion that couldn't do much or who didn't have a reliable build path, but with Lee Sin, it just made a champion who can do literally everything.

It's a really obvious problem and I hate how Riot skirts around it like they don't know exactly how to fix Lee Sin. They've gone so far as to ruin the jungle in S5 by making it unlivable for everyone except Lee Sin, Warwick, and maybe Kha'Zix. Among those three, Lee Sin still comes out miles on top.

His attack speed makes no sense, his Lifesteal makes no sense, granting a shield on himself makes no sense, having a resource bar only to passively gain it right back makes no sense. There are so many things that he has that don't fit the archetype of a blind monk. If anything, Rek'sai fits this description a hundred times better with her Tremor Sense. He can safely make the most dangerous of plays. He is tanky but damaging. He has Nidalee's mobility with the disruption of Skarner. He can duel Riven and 2v1 an AD carry.

I feel about Lee Sin the way I felt about Nidalee before her rework--they are both overpowered to an obvious degree, yet Riot is/was taking their sweet time in figuring out exactly how to fix them. The main problem here is that Lee is such a fan favorite that jungle mains will cry bloody murder if their precious go-to victory champion is harmed in even the slightest way. "Removed Lifesteal from Safeguard/Iron Will," "RIP LEE SIN GG TIRO," they'll say.

So many things wrong, and I can only sit here and hope that Riot is reading this somewhere. I'm sure the same idea has been proposed multiple times, because it's easy to see that Lee Sin's power lies in his overabundance of utility and damage. Nice post and keep fighting the good fight.