Did Riot break MMR or something?

Niyumi··2 votes·529 views

Good fucking God. These people I'm being matched with today shouldn't even be playing PvP, let alone ranked. How do you die SIX TIMES to a SHEN in 10 minutes as Nasus? Every game since the patch is this way. Just a giant stomp on everyone, while I sit here with maybe one death, but unable to do anything against the uberfed enemy team.

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oOSkyRunnerOo2 votes

DYNAMIC QUE IS SICK.

Niyumi2 votes

Is that it? Am I just against premades every game now? >.>

TouchpadExpert1 votes

I've played this matchup before. Shen can be a real nuisance to Nasus with his taunting preventing him from getting those Q stacks. But Shen really shouldn't have any real kill pressure on Nasus. Still, Shen can be real annoying for Nasus to deal with early on.

Niyumi1 votes

Well, I've just seen Shen dominating today and yesterday, so maybe they secretly buffed him so he gets popular-ish before his rework comes out. Wouldn't surprise me.

I've yet to see a Shen in the last two days go anything below 8/1

TouchpadExpert1 votes

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Well, I've just seen Shen dominating today and yesterday, so maybe they secretly buffed him so he gets popular-ish before his rework comes out. Wouldn't surprise me.

I've yet to see a Shen in the last two days go anything below 8/1

All the more reason why his current kit needs no rework. I was satisfied with it. He's a very safe laner to play as. Farming under tower is his bread and butter and anyone stupid enough to tower dive him gets taunted and dies. His vorpal blade may not have been a major damage dealer but it was enough that he could last hit using it and it had a short enough cooldown and low enough energy costs that it could be spammed. Feint was fine too. The last time they nerfed it they said that the shield was too strong to be bursted down which was true. Prior to the nerf I never found myself in a situation where I was 1v1 and someone popped my shield before it dissipated on its own. Lower the shield and add in the dodge chance. That would have been a nice rework keeping him plausible in the current meta.

Amelie1 votes

You mean you don't normally get games like that? Been like this ALL pre-season for me...

Niyumi1 votes

Well, I went from S1 and 80 LP to S4 today. And every game, it's like 5 - 35, and I have one or two deaths at most. I just don't understand why I'm being matched with these people.

Dediguise1 votes

Shen has been one of the strongest champions sense the mastery rework. His early game dumps on most champions. Why do you think people are complaining about his rework?

(I have over 150k mastery with shen)

Niyumi2 votes

So basically the masteries broke him. >.> Okay. Well, now I understand why I see him so often now.

Do you have any advice on beating a fed Shen? Most of my champions are squishy, and a good portion of them are melee, so it's kind of hard to deal with him. I'd imagine I just need to kite him around, but that's hard to do on a melee.

Dediguise1 votes

He's a early game duelist, kind of like a reverse fiora. He's not op as much as he's a lane bully who wins in long fights and who can gank lanes without falling behind. Basically early game you want to force his tp and then run away. It sounds stupid, but it screws him. If you are dueling him you want to get in and out so he can't proc grasp of the undying multiple times. Wait the four seconds then go back in. It's pretty simple actually.

He's also like lee sin, his late game is terribad. Either he has all the kills and his team cant survive without him or he has zero kills and his splitpushing is slow an ineffective. Either way he's horribly gimped after 20 min. So plan your strategy accordingly.

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