I am a bronze player(OMFG YES A BRONZE PLAYER IS TRYING TO PROVE A POINT)You can call me out on my rank if you like to
I play mostly normals because playing in ranked is not fun at all and I purely want to enjoy my time on a game not waste it on 12 year olds trying to reason out diving on a 18-0 Kha zix that magically got fed.
I have 140k points with a mastery 7 and I try with all my heart to enjoy playing him but it is so hard to lane against anyone , and I mean everyone.
His early game is shit because your combo resides on you hitting a dash and getting 3 empowered auto attacks which hurt like a little kid hitting you with thundersticks.You can't do anything after the combo you are right besides the enemy and you can only use a flash because you can't escape the torment that is about to happen by basically anyone on toplane.His push power is terrible with almost zero tolerance.His kit is too clunky to be viable and his ult is only viable if you play with 5 people premade.You can't cheese with him at any point of the game.And don't try to prove otherwise just because he is a tank Laughs in Garen,Urgot,NASUS,Hecarim...you get the point.Only thing you can hope for is that your opponent has 3 living brain cells and maybe 30 liters of alcohol inside him otherwise he will pop you like a fcking ballon because you have no viable escape besides your E which is on cooldown longer than CS:GO operations update cycle. If they kept the old Shen atleast I could laugh my ass off in river while actually doing something.He is a support is one of the weakest incompetent Shenobi's I ever witnessed.You cannot engage on anyone besides maybe a rogue
appearing on your lane because you will get poked like a 21 year old girl on facebook. If you try to build any kind of damage on him you will be irrelevant in 20 minutes.If you try to build tank you will be a walking ward with 3500 hp screaming: I CAN TAUNT YOU ALL,IF YOU TRY TO KILL ME PLEASE DONT TRY TO KILL ME,AND IF YOU DONT TRY TO TO KILL ME I WILL BE IRRELEVANT.Just revert his old kit and update his VU AND SFX. It seems like Riot forgot about putting him in(thank god he atleast got a skin which is like...Shit) because he has not been touched in any kind of lore of gameplay update.Overall I would kindly like to ask everyone here to prove me otherwise but not based on me being bronze but based on the statements I just said.Shen is a bad alternative to any of the tanks that are currently present and will never have a spot where he shines other than maybe applying some garlic on himself so he can atleast taste a little better when he feeds everyone.