Shen Rework

DarkweaverZ·1/29/2016, 12:34:37 AM·8 votes·1,832 views

This Shen rework has been the biggest disappointment of the entirety of my history with league of Legends. Whoever decided to release this rework must not have been thinking clearly. First point: Shen has no sustainment, whatsoever. His passive shield isn't all that it's talked up to be by the Rework highlight. "4.5 seconds cooldown with each enemy hit by an ability" this passive is just horrible. Ok you can drop a Q and it is a straight line drag, this makes it nearly impossible to get a full cooldown of his passive unless you literally stack a whole team and say "ok wait, now i'll get in position and Q you all". His old passive was atleast good and did damage. Second point: His Q scales off of ability power and does 5+(x)% of the enemies health on hit FOR 3 FREAKING HITS!!!! Really? Why was this such a great idea? Unless you build a full cooldown Shen (which wouldn't begin to be a good build because you took away his sustainment when you threw out his on hit healing). Third Point: his W is literally the worst ability in the entire game. It's almost as useless as... well... I truly can't even name an ability as useless as a 1.75 second damage blocker. 1.75 seconds is literally a single hit from an enemy and then it goes into a 10+ second base cooldown. Like what? When will this ever help? Cool I blocked a single ability from each champ and possibly a single Auto Attack. Congrats now i have to either die or rush out because i'm useless in a teamfight. Once you land a single Taunt + Q + W, you literally become the most vulnerable champion ever. Cooldowns are so long and the Q only lasting 3 hits allows you do do maybe 15% of any champs health and when you come to think of that, it's nothing.

As an Old Shen main I can not help but feel this rework had little thought put into it. I understand YOU had the feeling that Shen's skillset had little involvement in Shen but this new Skillset literally was 4 steps backwards. What is a tank without sustainment? At least when Shen used his previous W for a shield it was able to block something important and possibly last longer than 1.75 seconds. You could have done some much better with this rework. I honestly won't even play Shen now with how horrible he is in all scenarios. 1v1's are a no-go against any champion. Teamfights are just as bad because even if you initiate your W will only help you for a split second before going on cooldown.

If i were to rework Shen I would have based his old W off of health scaling or armor scaling instead of AP. His ult is basically the EXACT same thing only now you bring your useless dagger with you.

PS. I'm not very thrilled about this Zed Look-a-like Shen now. I loved his original Ninja graphics. He seemed like the 'Good' and 'Righteous' Ninja all while Zed was the obvious 'Evil' or 'Deadly' Ninja apprentice that Shen had once trained and he turned against his teachings.

I would call the Fiora rework 100x greater than this one. Sorry to say but you have lost my support for (in my opinion) ruining a perfectly fine champion.

23 Comments

Quepha1/29/2016, 12:38:03 AM4 votes

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Third Point: his W is literally the worst ability in the entire game.

Funniest quote of the day.

DarkweaverZ1/29/2016, 1:35:28 AM4 votes

Everyone Downvoting this thread must be an Old Shen hater. Now they can rest in piece knowing Shen won't wreck them

Grashnim1/29/2016, 12:35:13 AM3 votes

WTB Energy please.

Moving that sword all the time is fucking costly and annoying, at least the Ekko shadow follows some.

Little Stick Man1/29/2016, 1:46:05 AM3 votes

nice troll

LedLips3/1/2016, 2:29:07 AM1 votes

Spot on. I got you get 1 percent more damage from your q from 60 AP. worthless. Can't poke, can't stay in a fight. No damage, no possibility for damage. You used to not do damage but every 4 seconds, now not even then, plus you have no healing capabilites, and you can't shield yourself longer than 2 seconds. I'm rounding in your favor, and it still sounds horrid.

EcchiOtakuTM3/1/2016, 3:23:36 AM1 votes

Shen is great, they just need to change his W to be placeable anywhere in 600 range. That's it.