WHY CAN'T SHEN BE BOTH?

I thought the whole point of the Shen change was to allow people to go AP. Whenever I go AP Shen-dawg, sure i get kills, I'm good at the whole "SURPRISE!: Ninja." thing. but the lack of health and armor with most AP items makes Shen forced to choose a role. Tank or clutch killer. He can't even be a threat as AP because of the lack of damage output after that 3rd strike, the lack of 1 more second of attack blockage, and the inability to scale his damage high enough to make or truly effective. He just can't hit hard enough, fast enough.

I try to make him damaging and give him a chance to finish the job with i scale his health and give yet more dmg with , and as most skill based tanks, I get these two things and it's game over. I live. And there is no escape.

But with Shen... Even perfectly played, (Skills dodged. Dash well placed. W activated when perfectly neccesary.) I STILL have to step away for a moment for my cd's to finish the job. Even when i try to pair with to remedy that, it STILL ends up not being enough damage scaled to finish the @%&^$ job. And at that point i'm a sitting fucking duck because Shen's natural defense is garbage by the time he's got two attack items.

Even with and he doesn't even start to be as much of a threat as, say, a with those two items. He just can't put the rape on fast enough, when his damage goes back down after his Q is over. And in that short space, almost every other champ has their damage scaled high enough to reverse the rape party. This makes Shen sad.

I would like to be able to build Shen however I bloody well please, (Within the logical confines) and own like I know how to play this game. Not just be forced to build pure health tank LIKE HE ALWAYS HAS BEEN. The point of the revamp was to allow Shen to utilize his full ninja-ness. To be a threat. Not just a weird masochist. That's 's schtick.

But try as i might, I can only get in the fight for a few seconds, built for damage. And nobody runs. Nobody screams. Nobody says "Target Shen first".

My suggestions to keep him from being completely unfair- Because, let me clarify, I'm not saying he can't do the job you build him for. I'm saying he can't do it, and OWN at it. I want to do damage, kill something and dash the fuck away to start planning for the next victim. So. Suggestions:

• Make his health/armor/mag res scale to half his bonus AP
• Scale his AP to 10-15% of his bonus health
• Put his dash on instant CD if someone dies while they're taunted
• MAKE THE W FIELD LAST ONE. SECOND. LONGER.
• Put his Q health% damage higher if you go full AP
• Give him back the shield he had on his ult. Hell make it half strength of the shield he puts on his ally.

ANY of these implements would relieve my grievances give me two, and I'd flip my s%#t. Spatula fully in the toilet.

Make him a threat. Or at least a bit (just a bit.) harder to kill when you set him on murder mode.

Seriously. Am I the only one who's tired of being forced to just take punishment to feed the adc? What if the adc dies? My cooldowns can't prevent that in full tank gear. He's a top by nature. Stop making him into a support.

I welcome any and all other suggestions from the community to allow Shen to be all he ever dreamed of being.

"If the speed of light is so fast..." How come everyone can catch this Ninja?

Not. Beast. Enuf.