Caitlyn with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Lee Sin
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Caitlyn Lee Sin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Lee Sin
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Understand How Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Caitlyn Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lee Sin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lee Sin helps Caitlyn perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn tries to synergize with Lee Sin, she gets a little increase in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Lee Sin helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Lee Sin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Lee Sin.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Lee Sin on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Lee Sin does a decent job of protecting Caitlyn during team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no perfect synergy for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Lee Sin is a not very good companion for Caitlyn. By playing on the same team as Caitlyn, he lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 46.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Caitlyn and Lee Sin that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lee Sin has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be cautious when lining up Lee Sin allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Caitlyn players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Caitlyn and Lee Sin together, you probably will not be giving your team enough magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Caitlyn in order to work well with Lee Sin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Caitlyn and Lee Sin synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Rapid Firecannon, and Stormrazor. When Caitlyn combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Lee Sin than with most other common builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 46.5% helping carry Lee Sin with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Caitlyn players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Caitlyn and Lee Sin pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.5% win rate overall.
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