Why is Shen the only Energy-based champion in the game to have 400 Energy?

Warlord Rhinark·11/17/2018, 4:54:54 PM·4 votes·2,159 views

The Base Energy Regeneration for Energy-based champions is 10 Energy every second.

This means it takes 20 seconds to regenerate 200 Energy and 40 seconds to regenerate 400 Energy.

To put this into perspective, it takes double the amount of time for Shen to regenerate his resource pool, compared to other Energy-based champions.

Anyone know why this is, exactly?

Why can't he just have 200 Energy, just like everyone else, and then reduce the costs on his abilities down a bit?

It's not like he's currently very strong with his 48.7% win rate.

I think he could really benefit from this change.

5 Comments

SEKAI11/17/2018, 5:01:08 PM2 votes

Because there used to be Energy runes in the old Rune system, which people sometimes stacked them on Energy champions so either combo rotation is longer, or in the case of Shen, used to mitigated the punishment incurred on his resource when missing his E/taunt (I call it "punishment", but it's more like the cost itself was super big unless it hit enemy champ successfully to get some Energy refunded; and so Energy runes may sometimes be using by the player to increases the amount of errors they are allowed to make for Shen).

And Riot being Riot they are, they noted that it is a problem but they only really want to target tanks as per their usual vendetta against anything remotely tanky. So only Shen is hit with the bat by having both his max Energy and spell Energy cost doubled; it doesn't really affect Shen's kit itself per se (it's just the max Energy bar and the cost BOTH being scaled up by 2), but it's done in order to cut the effectiveness of the Energy runes by half, and severely discourage them being used on Shen.

And they just forgot all about it after the introduction of the new Rune system so it's just left that way now. Riot is typically only quick to do something about Shen when it's about nerfs or changes no one really ask for, after all.

Jennifer42011/17/2018, 4:57:53 PM1 votes

just for the consistency: give him 200 like every other champ.

DM For Rat Facts11/17/2018, 5:36:19 PM1 votes

Cross fit

deadlychuck11/17/2018, 7:43:28 PM1 votes

Another weird thing is that his regen mechanic, increases at levels 1, 4, and 12, rather than lee sin's 1,7, 13 or akali's 1,8,13