Daily reminder that Shen still has two useless AP ratios in his kit.

Melledoneus·May 9, 2016·4 votes·323 views

Riot, you and I both know nobody in their right mind is going to even attempt AP Shen now. Just... get rid of it. Put something else in its place. It's just mocking half the previous Shen player-base that used to build AP on him.

3 Comments

TalinisMay 9, 20163 votes

The "useless" ap ratios on some champions kits were for when you get baron and it gives you attack damage and ability power, to boost up some abilities particularly since baron doesn't give tank stats like health or resistance. They put them AP and not AD because they don't want the champions to normally have access to that power but provides them an extra boost when they do, such as Ashe and her Crystal Arrow ultimate. The other reason is so that you can make better use of a couple items that have a bit of AP on it that you might consider using for other purposes so the AP isn't a total waste.

DeathBurstMay 9, 20163 votes

There are plenty of champs with weird AP ratios. Poppy on her anti-dash zone, Jinx on her chompers, Ashe on her ult, Sion on both his shield and his roar, etc., etc.

I asked this question and a Red answered: "Abilities without scaling at all are very, very rare, so when we have an ability that should not scale with items, we put a scaling with a stat that the champ doesn't want to build, but it essentially means 'no scaling'."

I question the relevance of useless scalings instead of no scaling at all, but Shen is definitely not alone in this case, and shouldn't be treated as a special case...