Shen Support

Muten Shensei··1 votes·1,021 views

I have nothing against his rework. I do like his rework, I like his kit. He's honestly one of the most dynamic champions you can play. The problem I'm having is that he's becoming more of the odd duck in the champion pools. He's not the best top anymore, and jungle...can work here and there (but the clear can be slow until tiamat / cinder), so I see him being sent down to support. This is not a big deal for me. I like seeing a strong tank as support, but I've always seen Shen as a multi lane champion, and It hurts to see him in this situation. Now I'm not sure what the best solution to this is.. Possibly a buff, or a new skin (can't take a joke? just kidding), but I do want to see some more buffs to both jungle clearing and top laning phases for him. An idea would be to include jungle items that don't focus on mana regen because sometimes having that second jungle item 7 minute into the game makes me feel small. As for top lanning, this one's a hard one, I don't really have a solution to this. What are your thoughts?

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BeatzBoyFTW1 votes

Top lane Shen still works, he still has some decent amount of lane damage & map presence with his Ult/TP while building Titanic Hydra/Tank items. Jungle Shen just sucks at the early game due to his goddamn slow waveclear (he isn't Warwick, so rushing a Tiamat on him instead of early tank items can still hurt him), adding the fact that his only form of ganking potential is purely from his narrow-hitbox E.

I still don't see Shen support being that high of a potential, cz let's face it, he's only good being a taunt-bot. You miss the taunt, be ready to enjoy a ton of punishment from the bot lane, as your W won't be shielding you too much. He used to be a good support back in the days due to his old Q being a ranged poke & heal.

Afaik, with his ult being providing such a huge impact for his team, he doesn't really need any buffs at all. He still has strong dueling power at the top lane, and any buffs to him can possibly make him too strong to fight against.

Muten Shensei1 votes

I do incredibly well bot lane with Shen. If you position your Q properly, you can activate font of life for your adc. On top of Guardian, + Celestial Body, you are an incredible tank support. I just think he can't lane phase properly if enemy hits 6 vs Shen's 6 which is just global presence. He gets countered very easily vs playing bottom, you just have to keep your adc alive with Knight's Vow + Locket + Guardian + taunt + w = invincible adc.

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