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.
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some critical Lee Sin against Soraka counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between these two champs. As an example, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Soraka. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Lee Sin typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Soraka. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lee Sin usually fairs equally well when taking on Soraka, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Lee Sin makes an ok counter to Soraka.
While Lee Sin does have a lower win rate than Soraka, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lee Sin into Soraka.
Moreover, Lee Sin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lee Sin is a somewhat poor counter to Soraka. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lee Sin against Soraka.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to counter Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Soraka. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Lee Sin versus Soraka build consist of Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Soraka than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 49.3% battling Soraka with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Soraka 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 sets players picked for Lee Sin vs Soraka counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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