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So, Shen is getting nerfed everywhere again.

JarvansWAR·4/5/2017, 11:42:47 PM·9 votes·1,008 views

Our changes on the PBE show us that Shen will get less waveclear (as if it wasn't pretty shitty already), less reliability on his ult (lower values at higher health and a higher cooldown, which if you play Shen you would know it's extremely impractical), and overall less ult shield values even at max strength.

All for 30 less energy on his E and a slightly wider E hitbox.

This is an obvious overall nerf because you basically castrated Shen jungle at this point and now that Shen's ult can't be used as often and sucks now, top Shen is even worse than before, if that was possible. His passive shield isn't reliable, his sustain is non-existent, his overall stats still pale in comparison to other tanks, and his kit is still clunky and bugged. And now he can't even fucking farm? Gee, thanks.

So, let's recap this "balance change" to reiterate my point.

#Buffs: Slightly wider E hitbox (I'm actually very happy about this change, it feels so damn smooth now.) E now costs 150 instead of 180 energy (This needed to happen a long time ago) 15 base damage on Q (This is a fucking joke)

#Nerfs: Q now does not deal extra flat damage to monsters and minions (For some reason) Base R shield value lowered from 250/550/850 to 175/350/525 (280/560/840 at maximum strength) (Yay) R cooldown increased from 180/150/120 to 200/180/160 (As if you didn't fucking gut it enough)

Now let's compare this to the nerfs our good friend Yasuo got to "balance him" for solo queue: >Base damage reduced to from 60/70/80/90/100 to 70/90/110/130/150 20% AD ratio added

So you're telling me that in order to nerf Shen for pro play and buff him for normal play, you gutted everything about his ult and removed his only waveclear in lane. But then to nerf Yasuo overall, you gave him most of his fucking damage back on E?

Thanks, Riot. You've tried so hard to make Shen non-existent and now I think you've finally done it. Congratulations.

Fuck this.

-An angry Shen main on his shitty smurf account

16 Comments

Shuriman Curator4/6/2017, 5:22:14 AM4 votes

As a former Shen main I agree with you with what you said. These changes are a joke. Now it seems that riot wants Shen to build AD? I mean, sunfire cape is great and all but loosing q bonus damage is a terrible idea. This change pretty much killed Jungle Shen, he needs that damage to clear.

At this point, im pretty disappointed how he turned out, then again a good handful of champs became shit imo.

Zero Skill Tank4/6/2017, 6:18:27 AM2 votes

15 base damage on Q (This is a fucking joke)

How is a total of 45 damage on lvl 1, which gets to 120 by 16, on a spammable ability a fucking joke? Changes are still a nerf overall, obviously, but 120 damage each 5 seconds is huge for a tank.

AcidTheWarlock4/6/2017, 9:01:41 PM2 votes

I mean, there's bonus monster damage so....Jungle Shen????

I haven't played him in a while but the Q nerfs make no sense. Shen's laning is already horrific if your opponent can outclear you, your only hope is to freeze and take good trades with E-Q-W and hope your ults are good.

The missing HP nerf should be the only thing.

Yaśuo Main4/6/2017, 11:56:26 PM1 votes

The Yasuo nerf only changed what Yasuo maxed. Now it's Q and maxing Q is not some unviable thing, it's sleeper OP when fighting in top lane.

All the nerf really did that was negative was make E super clunky. It's only good for a dash and since E is garbage early game, it's not reliable outside of dashing. Weird ass nerf, didn't do anything other than make E weird to use.