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.
The stat comparisons shown here feature several strategic Lee Sin versus Nilah counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nilah..
Lee Sin often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nilah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when taking on Nilah, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Lee Sin makes a bad counter for Nilah.
While Lee Sin does have a lower win rate compared to Nilah, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lee Sin into Nilah.
Additionally, Lee Sin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Lee Sin is a garbage counter to Nilah. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Lee Sin against Nilah.
To truly master Lee Sin in order to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin often racks up a lot less CS compared to Nilah. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Lee Sin versus Nilah build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Nilah than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average winrate of 46.6% battling Nilah with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Nilah as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Lee Sin vs Nilah counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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