Global ultimates and why nerfs are unbalanced.

The Ecdysiast··1 votes·356 views

Pantheon Nocturne TwistedFate All had their ultimates nerfed. TF the least, but still a decent amount. Pantheon Is very hard to land, and gives a massive indicator of where he's landing so anyone with 405 MS can walk out of it. Nocturne While it does give that odd blindness, the blindness itself only lasts 4 seconds (3 if you actually want to dash) and the damage is only a little more than a basic, and less than a critical hit early on, when it's supposed to be most useful. TwistedFate's Is a lot better than Nocturne's, since the sight lasts longer and it has much higher rank 1 range even if it doesn't do damage.

But they came out with RekSai. Yes, she needs tunnels to use the ability but you can't just walk around destroying every single one, and you can't destroy on she's using the ability on.

Now the real issue is Shen. When you think L$CBIGPLAY$, you think LeeSin and Zed right? Well how about the champ with a global presence enough to turn every fight into a 2v1 or 3v2, and a shield to stop you from killing anyone who's right next to him or across the map from him? The champ who can do well with almost any damage item item 3153 item 3146 item 3078 item 3156 item 3100 as long as the rest of his build is tank.

I understand that the ultimate is a key part of playing him, but when the rest of the global champions were nerfed for being too overbearing, why is the guy who can teleport to allies and shield them still able to do it from the well?

The only hopes any of the other ones had of saving an ally like that were killing/CCing the enemy, which doesn't change your ally's survivability to actually ensure that. And Shen has that _taunt _ anyway, so he still has the CC to ensure the save even after he's shielded them.

I'm not saying Shen is overpowered, but if global presence was such a problem that all of his competition had to be nerfed it's still an issue with him.

There's also the fact he runs on Energy when the rest need mana items, and his ultimate doesn't even have a cost.

5 Comments

Sachabot1 votes

I like Shen, but you have a point. It might have to do with the fact that aside from his ult + taunt, he doesn't bring anything else, and he doesn't have the mobility to run out of lane very quickly to position for it. That's just what I think, though.

The Ecdysiast1 votes

I agree, but neither do Panth, Noc, and TF. He at least has a dash.

JustMyBassCannon1 votes

Nocturne was not ever a global range dash, Shen and Rek'sai need a target for their ultimates instead of being literally anywhere on the map when they want to be there.

Yosuke Apperu1 votes

The thing about shen is yes his ulti gives a shield. But often times they can die before your channel and you just end up wasting an ulti.

frickenbrick1 votes

as a guy who likes to play shen (still learning him) i think he is a niche champ he only has so much usefulness and compared to most he isnt very good when it comes to late game except to eat damage

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