Shen needs your support!
Greetings all, I'm writing this to share my opinion on shen. I love the idea of his kit, and him as a champion.. his lore and everything is awesome too! He's A FREAKING NINJA! However.. I feel like he could use a bit of a touch up.. First off his energy costs are too damn high.. no other champ that I can think of gets punished so hard for missing an ability! I'm referring ofcourse to shen's Feint ability.. If he misses it not only is he left way out of position like really bad.. but he can't even do a full rotation of his abilities.. even if he hits one person with it (say in a 1v1 scenario) He can still barely get off a full rotation. Now now I understand that he has a mechanic aside from his dash to get back energy.. but to be honest it sucks imo.. akali get's more energy back level 1 than shen (20 for triggering her mark on her q "mark of the assassin") but even without that she can still do an entire rotation with energy to spare, same with 
(except for the second casts on lee sin's spells, but due to his energy regain mechanic that's possible) as well as 
, hell zed can almost do two full ability rotations with his energy regain mechanic). I Understand that shen shines in team fights and that's awesome! But I still feel like he needs some love for his 1v1 skirmishes as missing his taunt punishing so hard. Maybe lowering his energy cost for rotation to like 170 atleast and possibly have his passive energy regain mechanic restore the same as akali triggering a q mark.. or perhaps leave it how it is and increase it to akali's if he marks a target with his q (vorpal blade) first.. It would be a buff.. but at this point it feels more quality of life. At this point I honestly feel like he may need a rework in general(nothing super major).. he's not picked very often anymore and even though this is the "tank meta".. there are just many better picks. Leave your feedback below, I'm interested to see what other's think of shen, my post in general, and what could be done to put shen in a healthier state (aside from bringing back this little beauty(instert atma's impaler here)). Thank you for reading! :)
damage? Also sweet. AOE damage on end of 3 seconds, a slow added being that he's a full TANK, adding damage pen, the list goes on and on. Dude just plainly needs attention, and this is like, 1 of 15 posts about it I've found.
top and I think he's awesome up there. I whoop most of the top laners I see. I though his taunt was a bit punishing at first, but then I realized against many tops, it's his only moment of weakness besides before his first back, when he has no tanky items or doesn't proc his passive enough.
chances are he'll crit you once-twice and make you wish you never taunted him. 
will just counter chase you even after being taunted and q then spin to win you because shen is so damn slow. Taunting this guy 
wont work out for you because he's way too tanky to do anything anyways and he'll wither you after the taunt, throw his e and q you in the face. 
this guy still needs love as does shen, but he'll just q your face whenever you try to do anything and be out of your range. I'm curious though, who were your match ups and who are you whooping? Also share your build as I love shen as well! I just feel that his biggest problem is he has to work way harder for anything than most other laners..
is another example of someone who would whoop shen's ass XD. Anyways I respect your opinion and just offer you my opinion :)
to have 100 armor (50% damage reduction), which will keep most AD tops from doing much to you, even with 
. If my opponent does true/mixed damage or magic damage, I get a 
or 
instead. From there, I grab a 
, 
for split pushing. 
will cause you to outright shred softies.
, so it may be better to just poke them until they're low enough to engage directly.