Make Shen's Q Work With His Kit.

Time Criminal·12/22/2016, 5:20:43 AM·4 votes·854 views
Riot Games: Make Shen Better

Leave the current kit untouched, but add another mechanic (essentially, make Q a double-cast ability) to Shen where he places down the spirit blade for a certain period of time after pressing Q, and it could be re-activated again to retrieve it and do the exact same effects as his current Q for the second cast. The spirit blade's existence would be on a different timer system than the CD of Shen's Q and it would be displayed visibly on top of the blade once it's summoned, during its existence, the blade could be retrieved indefinitely and combo with W as intended like current Shen until it expires when the timer runs out, which in that case it would need to be re-summoned again. The spirit blade itself has no cooldown timer after its timer runs out hence could be re-summoned as soon as it expires. When Shen is too far away from the spirit blade, it automatically depletes the timer and vanish, making Shen able to summon it again. Ultimate would bring along the spirit blade next to Shen's teleported location without it vanishing and the timer intact.

7 Comments

And A Real Hiero12/22/2016, 11:56:10 AM3 votes

They should make it a skillshot that deals damage, it costs too much to spam anyway.

Yago12/22/2016, 5:29:15 AM1 votes

Shen's rework is awkward and his spirit sword mechanic has no reason to exist.

IF they wanted to go that route, they should have made the sword work more like Elder Titan / Tauren Chieftan from DotA.

SEKAI12/22/2016, 10:56:27 AM1 votes

bump.

Ulquiorra99512/22/2016, 1:51:51 PM1 votes

IMO the entire spirit blade mechanic needs to be reworked. It fails both thematically and from a gameplay perspective - it just feels like a burden slapped on to make his kit clunky instead of something that actually helps you (you know... what an ability is supposed to do). It basically forces a single combo of EQW because anything else is a hindrance. Also it turns his dodge zone into something that is only used as a personal defensive tool 99% of the time - to use it on allies you have to waste your only damage-dealing tool and your strongest energy regenerator (which you need more than ever because of stupid doubled energy pool).

When an ability hinders you more than it helps, then that's a sign that it's time for a rework.