Things That Will Most Likely Be Changed in Shen Rework

Meep Man··2 votes·375 views

Based on this paragraph posted by RiotScruffy:

"Shen is definitely not a full reboot like sion. There are some core abilities and things that he does that are really unique and we want to support: -Split push join team with ult, awesome and unique for team strategies -Ninja tank! Even though this isn't the first thing you think of when you look at a martial fighter like shen, it allows him to differentiate himself in both how he is durable (possibly more dodging/blocking than pure meatshield) and how he targets and disables his opponents. -Shadow dash is a pretty cool high moment, want to build up and around this rather than scrap. Some of the things that we think can be improved: -His laning and play pattern can be made more interesting and interactive for both shen and his opponent. We know that we can do better with top lane gameplay than marking your enemy and trading autos with them. His current pattern leads to a "stat check" win loss condition more than we would like. -Overall we can deliver a more clear and satisfying kit for him that focuses his power into more discrete moments that fit shen's character This is just my very rough thoughts, but hopefully it makes sense and doesn't seem totally off base."

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/04/red-post-collection-urf-leaving-soon.html

Things that will likely change in this rework.

  • Q will either be scrapped or overhauled heavily. They said they wanted his laning and play pattern to be more interesting for both of him and his opponents and his current Q basically just makes him get a heal advantage in trades and forever heal in lane where there is less trades. Probably will become some kind of disable based on what they said.
  • W will get overhauled. He said less meatshield, more dodging so expect something like Jax E I bet.
  • E will get minor changes. They said this will be what his kit should play around, except for...
  • R will most likely be mostly unchanged. This is what is Shen. You can't change it or it isn't Shen.
  • As far as passives go, maybe, maybe not. Depends on where they go with it.

So be prepared Shens. This is what seems to be coming your way.

3 Comments

PhoenixSlayer132 votes

Sounds alright, though I'm hesitant about Q changes. Even though jungle Shen isn't exactly in style, his Q is what allows him to jungle if he wanted to.

Major Sparkles1 votes

Exactly. To be fair his W is the weakest part of his kit but all in all I think shen is in a good place, he just isn't meta.

ABlueQuaker1 votes

Literally all Shen needs is new values on his abilities. Keep his Passive the same, keep his Basic Abilities the same and keep his Ultimate the same. Thematically, Shen's kit works - throwing daggers, Teleporting across the map with some cool meditation thing, dashing onto enemies. That's all fine - but their values and their effects don't work.

He's essentially an Assassin with the kit of a Tank. Give some sort of interaction between his Passive and Q in terms of damage, and give some sort of interaction between his W and E so that he can get into 1v1 fights.

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