[Huge] It's about time we adress the Shen problem or he'll be lost, please

With all the fuss going around the PBE lately because of Xin buffs or Soraka buffs or whatever buffs, people forgot about Shen totally and his crappy update that game live buggy and unfinished.

The stats are not out yet, but i'm pretty sure Shen is one of the worst champion in his position right now. Why ? Read this and you'll find out (PBE tester that's been crying out loud with his PBE friends without any feedback from Riot).

First, let's discuss what Shen was before the update. He was a normal ninja, with a very simple kit, perhaps not the most fun one but certainly very efficient and always being able to carry his team with power. What he had was : great sustain, awesome tankiness, reliable poke, map bully.

What did we trade this old Shen for ? Let me tell you : a crappy Ninja with a stick on a leash that has lost all his sustain, with a random bad shield, very unreliable dodge tool, buggy clumpy taunt, horrible ratios, all his tankiness.

Let's now see the abilities and why we lost a great champion :

• His passive, Ki Strike, was a powerfull damage tool that scaled great with maximum health and came back very early due to the fact that it reduced cooldown from two ressources. We now get Ki Shield, a shield that also scales on maximum health that procs for 2,5 seconds when Shen uses any ability then goes on cooldown. Why is this bad you ask ? Well consider this : you proc the shield while taunting this means it's up while you dash then while the ennemy is taunted so basically you wasted your precious shield on ennemy auto attacks then he proceeds to burst you out. See the problem ? It's RANDOM, you cannot really use it whenever you want because it's binded to your abilities and just goes on whenever it feels like, making it useless in teamfights. The passive also includes the spirit blade, but we'll get to that next.

• His Q, Vorpal Blade, one of my favorite poke tool, was awesome for last hiting top against hard matchups like Quinn and also gave Shen some awesome sustain scaling on health that he really needed. It was really nice to have a simple combo as taunt > vorpal > ki strike then proceed to go back activating your shield after you dealt tons of damage and took almost none. Now what do we have is a magical blade following you from far away unless you pull it with your Q spell. When you activate it, Shen pulls his sword and then empowers his next 3 attacks based on the target's maximum health with a really useless AP scaling and a shitty reaction time because Shen won't empower it before the sword reaches his contact meaning you can't reset autos with it. Wait you think that's OP ? Oh i forgot Kindred has the same thing on every single auto passively and better, and also Gnar and Vayne and many others. And that my friends, is the only tool Shen has now for damage... auto attacks. So how do you do in lane ? You cry, you get poked, you pray for the opponent to come near the turret and try to land out a combo so he gets actually damaged by the turret, poor thing. Because yea, if the sword gets pulled from far away it won't do anything to champions crossing it's path because you know, it's not like it's a giant magical sword stabbing you at light speed...

• His W as i said earlier, was a boring press on shield but damn was it reliable and efficient. Now we get a OMYGOD ITS SO OP JAX E AOE FOR THE WHOLE TEAM NERF PLS dodge tool. It's bad. Basically, the dodge will apply on every allies that stand around the magical swoooooooooooord for a very small duration. Now let me say this again, it's around your magical sword, you know that stick that goes there and there that you don't really care about ? Well yes, it's random. In teamfights you have two choices now : will you go in and taunt people then use your Q to empower your autos and get the sword to yourself so your team won't have the dodge buff ? Or will you stand by your squishy carries and make them dodge 1 or 2 autos ? Yea you see that's the problem, it's a useless too hard minigame that no one would normally care about, because the cooldown is freakin HUGE and it's not that great of a buff to the team. You have to place the sword correctly, assuming people will stand in it THEN only you can activate it and pray that the ennemy launched a few autos. Great work Shen.

• His E is the same ability, but now it comes with a ridiculous delay that makes you seem laggy or buggy because most of the time your target will derp and be able to execute a move before they get taunted OR you will miss your taunt because somehow the hitbox screwed up. I got frustrated so many times because i taunted people under my turrets and somehow they wouldn't hit me or something and it all goes to hell. Let's not forget that the passive that made taunted people deal half damage got removed ! Huge nerf to the tanky ninja, or is he a ninja anymore ?

• His R nothing to say same old ability and blink that we loved. Expect it now places you between the targeted ally and the nearest ennemy champion so you can easily taunt them or get dunked high.

So, are you satisfied yet ? Please don't tell me old Shen was boring, because his kit was so simple that it made him great. Every single Shen i had or played was amazing and even sometimes top damage over few other carries. He had the damage, the sustain, the tankiness and now we lost ALL of it. He doesn't reduce damage anymore, he needs grasp of the undying to have some sustain and his build is now lost more than ever. Tanky Shen had the damage all over the game because it was fast and good. But now lategame, if you don't have some attack speed don't ever think of landing those 3 autos you empowered. But if you choose to build attack speed, you won't tank because they removed the passives that made Shen tanky in the first place. And if you build tanky, you will be so useless because most tanks nowadays build tank and do great damage. Shen is now the only ninja in the game to not throw stuff, he is bound by this nightmare sword that nerfed him so hard. I don't find the fun out of just auto attacking people now, and in every single role Shen can do he has 10 times better than him (Leona, Braum as supps or tons of other toplaners). I hope you understand the current state he's in and how Riot refused to get feedback from PBE players. If we don't deal with this now, he might stay like this for who knows how long. So please, consider commenting, upvoting and sharing, thanks.