Lee Sin and Graves are played far too often, and if things don\u2019t improve for them soon, Riot is threatening to nerf the jungle champions, the developer said in a comment<\/a> on a League of Legends<\/em> forum post.<\/p>
The two junglers collectively are played in 55 percent of ranked games, according to<\/a> Champion.gg, a League<\/em> statistics website. That\u2019s definitely a staggering number, but it doesn\u2019t mean they necessarily need nerfs\u2014at least not both of them. Graves’ individual play-rate is only at 15 percent, which is still sort of high, but it isn\u2019t anything out of the ordinary for a strong meta pick. For instance, both Elise and Kha\u2019zix are sitting at 14 and 13 percent respectively, which isn\u2019t very far off. His win-rate is an abysmal 47 percent as well, which is far from too high.<\/p>
Lee Sin, on the other hand, seems a bit unbalanced. His play-rate alone is over 40 percent, which is more than double the second most played jungler, Graves. With huge changes<\/a> coming to the three tank junglers and items that will help tanks reach a much stronger place in the game, it would be silly to try to nerf Lee before this big update. That\u2019s why Riot will be waiting to see how the patch affects him. If they nerfed him beforehand, only to discover that the Midseason update was enough to knock him down a few pegs, he might need a buff.<\/p>
