Talk:Direction-targeted/@comment-89.241.183.144-20120607095918/@comment-24.145.152.165-20120609052852

Lee Sin only has one skillshot...unless you count his AoE Tempest? And the skills are usually granted extra range, usually around 1000 but that doesn't make the champions that use them more powerful. Take Lux for example, she has strong skills with CC and damage but she's clearly one of the hardest AP mids to play with 4 linear, easy-to-miss skillshots and no inherent tankiness/sustain. Swain who only has one skillshot snare is a far better and safer AP mid. Vlad is better too because he's tankier and he only has one AoE skillshot.

Karthus's Q is a skillshot but it has horrible damage and his AoE skill which takes no skill to hit does far more damage, same with Requiem.

The main advantages of skillshots are that you can hit people who are in brush or out of your vision range, and usually skillshots have extra range over homing abilities. In the special cases of Urgot and Cassiopeia, successfully landing your skillshots gives you an offensive edge for a few seconds, but Urgot and Cassiopeia are rare in that regard. Usually champions with easier-to-hit abilities will have safer damage and sustain and generally be more effective.

The main reason I would play skillshot-intensive AD carries like Ezreal or Varus is if I wanted to implement a poking strategy. However, if I wanted raw power I would probably go for Corki, Graves, or Tristana. Lee Sin is a good top laner and jungler, but Jax, who has no skillshots can go toe to toe with him and come out on top late game just because he has an amazing 1v1 kit.

Tl;dr: skillshots don't necessarily make a champion's abilities/kit stronger.