@Riot, A reasoned response on the Shen nerfs

With the new Shen changes on the PBE, potentially Shen will have zero abilities that affect minions and zero way to push the lane. NONE. The only way he can push the lane is to auto attack.

There is no other champion in the game that is completely at the mercy of their autos. Minion control is essential to setting up trades in lane, and especially for a character like Shen who routinely gets shoved into the tower repeatedly at early levels, having some kind of ability or auto reset to assist in farming under tower gives him a little bit of gold where other champs just lose minions to tower.

Please, think about this. Laning something like a Singed is miserable already. Ivern will be able to push you into tower. If I don't have some kind of base damage on the wave, the enemy can simply stack a wave up in my face, hit me with a CC or engage and I can't trade well because I'm trading into 6 minions. I really want to express my skill on Shen when landing those passthru Q's and having well timed W's and taunts, but I'm fighting minions more than I'm fighting my lane opponent, and thats not fun. I understand that wave manipulation is supposed to be his weakness, but its already his weakness. Laning a Rumble, Singed, Illaoi is miserable. I can't fight at any point. I can't shove. I farm under tower and get harassed, and then I cross my fingers and hope my soloq jungler can bail me out before my tower gets dropped at 8 minutes.

Can you please just nerf the ult cooldown, maybe do the %scaling thing, but leave the Q? Hitting the Q and the ult at the same time is just overwhelming.