maybe we should just revert the shen rework?

rubberduckie666·Jan 28, 2017·5 votes·819 views

shen visual update looks good, but his gameplay update seems to have... missed the mark so to speak.

while almost all of his damage was moved to a conditional auto attack enhancer that removed any form of reliable sustain his old personal shield was moved to his passive and replaced with an autoattack block aoe, which is both not very reliable and very conditional. his ult however was more or less unchanged (which is good).

his playrate seems to have tanked aswell as his winrate. perhaps its best to undo his rework and change up some of the animations for the new model to fit the old kit.

(call me crazy though i feel like the rework only happened because he started getting popular in lcs and riot dint like how he wasnt very flashy)

4 Comments

NeclordJan 28, 20172 votes

Mastery 7 Shen here. I like the rework. I'll admit that it's rather polarising, his Q can be flimsy at times. But it's solid to play overall (I play him support more than top though).

Getting your head around energy management is incredibly important if you want to have success with him, moreso than pre rework.

EstebanElGuapoJan 30, 20171 votes

passive energy regen is half old shen's effective rate. same number but across twice pool and twice cost of old. that is just one of the sucky things have to put up with changing over from old to new. I miss old shen higher burst and significantly greater dmg mitigation which was prioritizeable/rankable depending on matchup. new shen has almost 0 mitigation. nothing reliable and against nothing useful. my opinion of couse.

QuephaJan 28, 20171 votes

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his playrate seems to have tanked aswell as his winrate.

It SEEMS to have tanked, but... http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/shen It's pretty similar to what it was pre-rework.

Ravenous HowlsJan 31, 20171 votes

100% disagree. Shen has far more effective health due to his passive and W. His Q's %HP shred guarantees he scales well into late game and makes him good at chunking high HP targets for his team. You can't be lacks with your CD awareness or else you may trade unfavorably without W or your passive up. Other than that he's a great farmer under tower and can set up ganks and pressure all over the map. He's solid and well balanced and completely viable.