Back in the old-er times when his health regen was so strong that he could literally duel a adc and win lol. All he had to do was have a thornmail and a few regen things and literally start going at it on the adc. Also had a very spam-able shield that now a days only Riven has. I thought the old Shen is more fun than the new one just because the new one is solely more based on auto-ing someone to death
I just hate the whole spirit sword mechanic, it's utterly useless and needs to be replaced.
? NANI? [sg-ezreal]
I am sorry but Old Shen was terrible! The new version is worlds better. If you time your passive well you have so much effective health. Pair that with your W, Second Wind and Triumph and you can sustain far harder then the old version of Shen.
Personally I like the spirit sword but wish I could cast it where I want instead of having it fly to me. But I am so used to it now I don't see much point in changing it.
Shen's has one of the strongest win rates at the moment and the 7th highest pick rate. You are clearly in the minority here...
As a longtime Shen main I too miss old Shen, but I have gotten used to new Shen's kit. With old Shen I would regularly have highest damage dealt, with new Shen I almost always have highest damage mitigated (in lengthy games it can go up to 100k). New Shen definetly can still beat adc's caught out alone, but you gotta land that taunt. Old Shen braught good HP regen in his Q which I liked, his old passive was also extremely good and made him more bursty. New Shen is more DPS and skillful since you need to proc that Q, his passive is clunky af and it took me ages to be able to comfortably use it (still hate that it isnt instant).
Something cool you can do on Shen if you are vs a extremely hard counter (you cant hope to win lane), run Guardian and revitalise, ultimate hat with transcendence. You will have a extremely powerful ult, getting + 100/200 shield and ms boost on your ult, increasing shield strength by 15% if they are lower than 40%. Thats about a 437 shield if they are below 40% on level 1 (280 if max health), both of those value's are higher than what they ever been.
Say you have +2000 bonus health at level 3 ult, you hit almost 1300 shield on 40% allies (866 on full health). These are extremely good values, and are higher than prenerf ult stats. With 25% cdr at level 2 ult, you can ult every 135 seconds and once every 120 seconds on level 3. Respectively bringing his level 2 ult to a lower CD than prenerf, and his level 3 to pre-nerf levels.
His theme is very unaesthetically pleasing. He doesn't look much like a ninja anymore and his floating sword is an eye sore. Riot even mentioned they screwed up his theme and wont be fixing it anytime soon.
What I miss about old Shen is his attack animation, I really liked his crit animation/passive animation. It looked sharp and fast, like a ninja. Such a shame.
