How come Shen's Taunt doesn't Grant him an extra effect? Galio's grants him Defensive Stats and Rammus' grants him Attack speed, but Shen's Doesn't. I guess the only thing it grants him and some energy refunded but in comparison to the other Taunts Shen's feels a bit under powered!
L Psy Kongroo4 votesHe makes up for it with his W blocking all the auto attacks he would have taken during the taunt.
His taunt is also the only one that deals damage to anyone hit, while the others rely on follow up from other abilities.
PopcornBunni1 votes[{quoted}](name=L Psy Congroo,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=yy7a2EXr,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-10-28T19:56:44.535+0000)
He makes up for it with his W blocking all the auto attacks he would have taken during the taunt.
His taunt is also the only one that deals damage to anyone hit, while the others rely on follow up from other abilities.
Was going to say this about his W.
I really suck with Shen, but I can see the high skill ceiling he has. It just gets too hard for me to use his empowered autos, line up a taunt and W combo, cancel, and time ults when they're most useful, all at once.
Melledoneus4 votesShen's taunt is versatile and you can get creative with it. It's also mobility, meaning it has multiple uses. Additionally, his taunt is not telegraphed like Galio's and can be used to engage unlike Rammus'. Galio is slowed and Rammus has to stop and go through the cast lock-out period (yes, there is one). Additionally the way it can be used can be crazy (taunt-flash) while Rammus/Galio can only do one or two tricks with their taunts.
Additionally, it scales in damage with his HP and his W is a pseudo-secondary effect in a combo of E-Q-W in which he blocks all autos for a brief period.
I have many complaints about Shen's current state from his counter-intuitive ult scaling to the inferiority of his only damage tool on Q to Cho'gath's throwaway ability on E. However, Shen's taunt IMO is fine and with any more power put into it he would become a bit one-directional (Basically it would become a fact that if you don't land taunt you're useless, for example).
Hopefully that answers your question.
And A Real Hiero1 votesThis, Shen's taunt allows for more display of skill through creative use of the dash. For some reason Shen feels stronger in the current meta than before, but that might just be bramble talking.
Melledoneus1 votesIt is definitely Bramble Vest. Shen's main issue was not being able to deal with opponents with heavy sustain while he fought them.
However now he can buy a single item to counteract healing and now one of his only weaknesses in a duel has been removed.
And A Real Hiero1 votesSunfire still garbanzo though.
Darkdemon6533 votesShen's taunt deals damage.
Lord of Math3 votesAlso his taunt is a dash, so there is that.
DragonShea3 votes[{quoted}](name=Lord of Math,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=yy7a2EXr,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2017-10-28T20:15:31.583+0000)
Also his taunt is a dash, so there is that.
Indeed. It has many uses,
Death by Glamour2 votesHis passive and w
Shiznyte1 votesall this makes sense! thanks guys!