The old Shen we want

LíeZ··2 votes·514 views

Dear reader,

I was in a group of 5 friends. We were not the best in ranking up but we had our fun. And we were passionate. We spent a lot of hours just hanging out together, talking and having fun while playing ranked and normals. One of them was a really great Shen player, he could destroy everyone on Top and he really loved that champion. But then the life-changing patch came where Shen got his gameplay changes and skill changes. His Q got 'updated' and stuff got changed (his appearance is great, though! Wow the skins look awesome). But my friend doesn't like it at all :( He left League because RIOT changed the champ itself. With him my other friends went and backed off from LoL. We became IRL-friends even! So it was a big loss since we don't chat a lot anymore and everyone tries to forget. But I'm still here, I wanna change something and bring us back together! My friend was High Elo and well..... it was a lot of work to get there and deep inside we all want the good ol' days back where we were 5 players. If you could make it possible, why not change it back? No one really plays Shen anymore and that shouldn't make it too hard to undo changes, right? :/

12 Comments

hhaavviikk2 votes

they considered old shen boring because you just spammed Q and ran away yet that's all he does now as well, not to mention nothing in his kit tells me he's a ninja, I mean really now how you can be a ninja if you got this big ass sword floating around? that doesn't 'scream ninja to me that screams irelia.

I also hate the fact that energy runes are now garbage since they doubled his energy, way to shit on the 17k IP I spent on energy runes

LíeZ1 votes

that's something I regret as well. Energy runes made it so much better with him..... guess you can throw them away now >.>

Ralanr1 votes

Except now he has to position his Q right to have a maximum effect while old Shen could just avoid interaction 100% with his Q range.

Mig891 votes

4 River shen

CerealBoxOfDoom1 votes

Why would they bring old shen back, or better yet what's wrong with the new one? What do you miss exactly?

At the end of the day the primary difference is his healing abilities....... he left the game because shen doesn't heal or what? Oh and he doesn't toss anything anymore, maybe that's it? That'd be weird if that's what it was. I wish they'd make his Q more attractive I guess but whatever

LíeZ1 votes

It's not his healing that is off in his opinion. It is his alround style. Shen is considered a Ninja, the eye of twilight. His big swords floating around him is not what Shen originally is supposed to be. I guess you could still toss something, but then make it a bit more exciting when tossing and with a bonus effect, like Gnar's boomerang which gives u one mark of his W as bonus or smth. Just so its not just tossing and running.

Ralanr1 votes

Remember that he's a tank. That alone makes the ninja thematic hard. The dodge zone actually helps support it.

LíeZ1 votes

Well ye that's true..... but his dodge-zone could be understood as stealth zone so he cant be attacked haha. at least that's my opinion ^^'

Ralanr1 votes

That's already Akali's thing.

LíeZ1 votes

meant as a metaphor :)

Ralanr1 votes

Oh. My apologies.

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