Riot should revert Shen's changes (like Kog)
I was a Shen player. I played him all through Gold to climb to Plat last season, and as someone who enjoyed playing someone everyone else thought was boring, it was pretty good. Shen had a lot of versatility and could flex easily between top and support. He had specific advantages (poke, sustain, damage reduction, his global). He even had a secondary benefit as a support, as his Q could regenerate his ADC's health too. Did you know it used to do that? It doesn't anymore. More importantly, he had meaningful counterplay. His ult is a channel. Everything he does is short range besides the ult, and it's predictable. He had energy regen to manage, and missing his taunt put him at a real disadvantage. Moreover, being tanky wouldn't be enough to overcome a big enough team disadvantage. In other words, strong, but limited. Clearly, something had to change.
Does anyone even play new Shen? It's terrible. His Q no longer sustains and has even less range, so you absolutely must use E to guarantee a trade (otherwise they will just walk away). His E no longer gives damage reduction, so instead of feeling like a way to draw damage while being beefier, now you just draw fire and die. But wait, they gave him ninja-like circular dodge mechanic, right? Which means you better hope they don't use any spells, or that you didn't miss your taunt and again, they simply walk away.
Shen's old W required careful timing. Using it well meant a good Shen could block a lot of damage. Using it wrong meant you blocked nothing and wasted energy. He still has a shield, but now it's tied to your cooldowns... meaning you don't get to shield when you want to. Instead, you're forced to shield as a result of needing to use an ability. It's an awful design, and removing the ability of a player to decide when to use his shield just makes no sense to me. It already required good timing. Now it's mindless. It just happens.
I understand new Shen can taunt monsters now. So you can jungle Shen. I'm not even going to say anything else about that.
I realize probably no one else cares about Shen, but he's a champion in League just like every other. He was in a good place, and the "rework" has seriously fallen flat in anything like a positive shift. He's less effective AND less popular. So I would ask Riot to consider reverting the Shen changes, the way they did with Kog. I understand that Kog was reverted because Riot felt he was unbalanceable, but this is just the other end of the spectrum. A change that went too far down instead of up.
tl;dr, Riot ruined Shen and should change him back. just reposting one of the many unhappy Shen mains topics, there's thousands of them
Someone who fully utilizes AAs for maximum damage.
Someone who depends on on-hit abilities.
Someone who utilizes an empowered AA which comes with CC.
