Talk:Lee Sin/Strategy/@comment-15562896-20120319140850/@comment-62.1.237.36-20130218080101

The inherent problem of playing Lee Sin as a support is that he's not ranged, and not able to taunt/suppress like a tank-support. This means that you have to build him accordingly as the game progresses.

However, to build him progressively implies that you have to farm the gold to itemize correspondigly as a support. This alone goes against the idea of supporting champions that also need to farm. You end up eating up their farm, to support them with auras, when they have 2 doran's (blades/rings) and a +1 boot.

Now, there is a whole wide spectrum of what supporting can be, and a mobile assassin could certainly support his team in pushes and ganks and warding, but this is not the specific support role as Riot officially created it for the champions that are dedicated to it (Galio, Taric, Sona, Thresh, Nami, Soraka, Karma, e.t.c.). Lee Sin's bubble canNOT be cast when he's snared, Galio's and Karma's can.