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I am about to win my promos to Silver, but I am unhappy. And you want to know why?

Melledoneus··5 votes·951 views

Because I'm not playing my favorite champion, the one I have taken years to master and learn. I am not playing Shen in Solo Queue. In fact, I have played Poppy, a tank who:

-Has superior base stats -Has better scaling with stats -Has a better shield on her passive -Has more reliable CC (In terms of landing it and bugs) -Has a more useful defensive tool -Doesn't have a shitty laning phase -Can actually soak up a shit ton of damage in fights

Previously, I played Shen because I loved the way his kit felt. The taunt, the shields, being clever and outsmarting your opponent. But most of all, that ULT! Global savior with a nice shield and a surprise taunt to turn that fight around!

Now his shield is lackluster, has a niche use that it's not even good at, and his kit has all but nerfed to hell. 48.5% win rate on Leaguegraphs not because the ult changes or the E hitbox bump were that much of a buff, but because you turned him into a lane-shredding monster who is not the champion I fell in love with. And with the overall health reductions on tank items recently, his passive shield, E damage, and titanic hydra have taken even MORE hits, so Shen feels even less impactful with items.

I promised to play my favorite champion no matter what happens, but good god it is getting harder when I can simply pick up a different champion, do the same thing with less effort, and get better results.

I miss Shen's ult shield. I miss being the protector of my carries rather than a failure to them, the tank that would eat the blows for my team rather than get blown up because it takes 4 armor items to be on par with the meta tanks, the semi-passive laner that would punish your mistakes and prevent you from snowballing with my wave management and proper positioning, a god damn fucking tank.

I know this is a rant and this will probably get plummeted to the depths of downvote-ville, but I just needed to rant and express my sorrow for what Riot has turned my champion into. For anybody reading this, thank you for reading the words of a sad Bronzie who will soon be in Silver because he decided not to play the one champion he promised to dedicate himself to.

16 Comments

powershot122 votes

And even if poppy is superior, if you are better with shen, it wont change much. You can get away with anything if you are under high platinum. They both fit the niche of being tanky. They aren't riven or fiora. Their job is to stay alive in fights. The best ability is availability. With tanks being so broken in this meta, shen should be fine. Adcs can't touch you, and assassins cant delete you. Both of them are not meant to get kills and carry. They are supportive top laners that keep your team alive.

Melledoneus1 votes

I have far more experience with Shen than Poppy, but god damn it feels way more rewarding to play Poppy nowadays since Shen's ult shield was nerfed.

I just want things to go back to the way they used to be.

Pierce The Veal1 votes

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And even if poppy is superior, if you are better with shen, it wont change much. You can get away with anything if you are under high platinum. They both fit the niche of being tanky. They aren't riven or fiora. Their job is to stay alive in fights. The best ability is availability. With tanks being so broken in this meta, shen should be fine. Adcs can't touch you, and assassins cant delete you. Both of them are not meant to get kills and carry. They are supportive top laners that keep your team alive.

I assure you I can play mundo to get platinum despite having mained akali since forever. I understand where the guy is coming from: some champions are just higher return on investment.

Vizulix2 votes

Same story for me too. I used to main Shen and Nasus but I dropped those guys after the mid-season changes. I now main Veigar and am climbing quickly. I'm not doing it with my favourite champions however....

Hige2 votes

if you don't enjoy climbing with tooth and nail, don't play ranked, stick to normals

Melledoneus1 votes

I don't mind climbing with tooth and nail, but the fact that any other tank can basically do his job better with less effort is what makes me so upset. Shen's unique move is garbage right now and I hate it.

BladeSteel2 votes

I still enjoy playing shen? I've had fun playing him. If you give up on him so easily maybe he shouldn't be your main.

Melledoneus1 votes

I did not say I don't enjoy playing him. It's just that I miss so many things about him that they keep taking away. His tankiness, his counter-aggressive fighting style, his ult reliability... Riot is just sucking the enjoyment out of a once unique champion and turning him into a stereotypical bruiser.

BladeSteel2 votes

How is he a stereotypical bruiser? When playing shen I feel I am playing shen...not some "stereotypical bruiser". I would rather play shen than poppy or any other tank and I will continue to play him because he is more fun. How is he "stereotypical" ?

Melledoneus1 votes

Riot has been steering his power into damage. Sen used to be about outlasting your opponent in a fight, but now they've poured the power from his most iconic ability into his Q.

It still feels like Shen, but not as much as it used to be. He's not at the mediocre mark, far from it, but every change Riot makes drags him ever so closer to it.

Shen's ultimate needs its shield back. Get rid of the Q damage buffs if you need to, I just want Stand United to feel like the powerful ability it is again rather than a glorified teleport with a shitty conditional shield.

Pierce The Veal2 votes

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if you don't enjoy climbing with tooth and nail, don't play ranked, stick to normals

Did you even read his post?

OceanicEyes2 votes

You can't give up on your mains man!

Irelia Bot1 votes

I kinda ended up playing Akali to get back to gold since I was having an easier time being effective.

But then again I enjoy playing akali.

powershot121 votes

Imagine being an adc main. Every single one is irrelevant relatively. They need to be very far ahead to do any significant damage and they die to tanks that have 0 damage items.

Majki1 votes

Man, you just gotta separate your champ picks in norms and in ranked. Meta champs are often going to be easier to climb with. Amumu

MoonBlade921 votes

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Now his shield is lackluster, has a niche use that it's not even good at, and his kit has all but nerfed to hell. 48.5% win rate on Leaguegraphs not because the ult changes or the E hitbox bump were that much of a buff, but because you turned him into a lane-shredding monster who is not the champion I fell in love with. And with the overall health reductions on tank items recently, his passive shield, E damage, and titanic hydra have taken even MORE hits, so Shen feels even less impactful with items.

I mean with the tank update, every tank other than Amumu and Sej had their winrate plummet after losing around 10% of their bonus HP (AKA HP from items) and gaining 20% more bonus resistances. Which is a hard nerf, because of how high diminishing returns are in this game. RIOT just chooses to ignore that because "more testing is needed". Maybe when the Rammus rework ends up a disaster RIOT will revert the tank item changes.

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