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UniversalSnip
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
9871 Posts
September 25 2010 17:11 GMT
#20201
people talk down about him but I think he's fine... not every hero needs to be THE COMBAT BOSS like garen lol. He can get shit done.
"How fucking dare you defile the sanctity of DotA with your fucking casual plebian terminology? May the curse of Gaben and Volvo be upon you. le filthy casual."
deth2munkies
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4051 Posts
September 25 2010 17:14 GMT
#20202
On September 26 2010 02:06 Jupiter.sKy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2010 01:59 myopia wrote:
Please make that Shen skin come with some bug fixes/reworking... Shen needs love.


why does shen need reworking and what are these bug fixes you speak of?
considering that shen is already a very viable tank, I doubt he'd get any buffs that might push him into the op zone

Not really. His taunt isn't near as good as Rammus's taunt, Amumu's ult, etc, and Feint is worthless later in the game. Add to that his ult being nerfed and the fact he does no damage whatsoever apart from the unreliable Ki Strike (it always comes up at the worst possible times for me), he pales in comparison as a tank to nearly every other one (including Alistair). His only use is on gimmicky global ult teams that run Shen/Karthus/TF/Soraka/Ashe
barbsq
Profile Joined November 2009
United States5348 Posts
September 25 2010 17:19 GMT
#20203
On September 26 2010 02:14 deth2munkies wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2010 02:06 Jupiter.sKy wrote:
On September 26 2010 01:59 myopia wrote:
Please make that Shen skin come with some bug fixes/reworking... Shen needs love.


why does shen need reworking and what are these bug fixes you speak of?
considering that shen is already a very viable tank, I doubt he'd get any buffs that might push him into the op zone

Not really. His taunt isn't near as good as Rammus's taunt, Amumu's ult, etc, and Feint is worthless later in the game. Add to that his ult being nerfed and the fact he does no damage whatsoever apart from the unreliable Ki Strike (it always comes up at the worst possible times for me), he pales in comparison as a tank to nearly every other one (including Alistair). His only use is on gimmicky global ult teams that run Shen/Karthus/TF/Soraka/Ashe


so sad, really. He used to be numbah wun tank back in the day when his shield was insane
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myopia
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2928 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-25 17:34:14
September 25 2010 17:20 GMT
#20204
Shen is NOT viable for reasons that have been discussed before in this thread. Shen isn't a good tank because he can't do anything to force people to target him - his skills are mostly bad and he doesn't do enough damage. Come teamfights and he's lucky if he gets two taunts off. An intelligent team will just completely ignore Shen and kill everyone else.

Vorpal blade and feint need reworking, his skills in general cost too much energy, and Ki Strike needs a different CD mechanism. I think something like a 6 second CD, and whenever Shen attacks/uses a skill/gets attacked it reduces the CD by 1 second, would be good.

People keep banning him because they're dumb.
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rredtooth
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
5464 Posts
September 25 2010 17:24 GMT
#20205
shen's not viable? news to me.
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Phrost
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States4008 Posts
September 25 2010 17:25 GMT
#20206
I've been trying to extract the skn file and make it into an obj for previewing but alas I am unsuccesful.

If anyone knows a program that works with the newest SKN files let me know.
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myopia
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2928 Posts
September 25 2010 17:29 GMT
#20207
On September 26 2010 02:24 redtooth wrote:
shen's not viable? news to me.


yeah viable isn't the right word, he's still useable. He's just not good at much of anything, and there's 5-10 other champs that can tank better than he can.
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Brees
Profile Joined January 2010
Marshall Islands3404 Posts
September 25 2010 17:30 GMT
#20208
what? shen is still really good rofl
Brees on in
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Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29905 Posts
September 25 2010 17:33 GMT
#20209
On September 26 2010 02:29 myopia wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2010 02:24 redtooth wrote:
shen's not viable? news to me.


yeah viable isn't the right word, he's still useable. He's just not good at much of anything, and there's 5-10 other champs that can tank better than he can.

List me better tanks other than Shen. At least 5, gogog.
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barbsq
Profile Joined November 2009
United States5348 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-25 17:40:57
September 25 2010 17:35 GMT
#20210
garen, singed, rammus, panth, galio

:o

edit: i probably should put my personal stance on this. I certainly wouldnt be upset if there was a shen on my team, but really like seeing the above 5.

o, i such a scrub, how did i forget amumu >.<
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myopia
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2928 Posts
September 25 2010 17:39 GMT
#20211
On September 26 2010 02:33 Crucifix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2010 02:29 myopia wrote:
On September 26 2010 02:24 redtooth wrote:
shen's not viable? news to me.


yeah viable isn't the right word, he's still useable. He's just not good at much of anything, and there's 5-10 other champs that can tank better than he can.

List me better tanks other than Shen. At least 5, gogog.


Alistair / Amumu / Galio / Nasus / Rammus / Singed / Taric / Udyr


Shen is better than these in some areas, but when it comes to teamfights where dealing damage / disabling is just as/more important than absorbing damage, I'd rather have any of these guys on my team.


again, I don't HATE Shen. I still play him. I just want to see him reworked/buffed a bit.
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Jupiter.sKy
Profile Joined December 2009
United States50 Posts
September 25 2010 17:41 GMT
#20212
are you kidding?
shen's taunt is vastly superior to rammus' considering how it taunts multiple targets in addition to it being a skill shot allows you traverse terrain.
The nerf on his ulti is barely consequential considering how the damage shield on yourself is largely irrelevant while the shield on your carry matters. Shen's ulti allows him to protect the carry and be in a team fight while solo farming another lane.
Feint is underestimated as a pure damage shield and is effectively a self-heal on a tank. Its certainly not worthless late game.
Shen's damage is enough that he is still at threat to the carries and support of the other team, if you think he does no damage, your after the wrong targets.
In addition, shen is a very viable jungler making him a solid pick on many teams.

If we compare shen to amumu, yes amumu's ult better makes him but that doesn't mean shen can't compete. Shen is much better than other tanky heros who you can basically ignore after a fight starts. Alistar is a complete trash tank who's whole purpose is a single target janna ulti and becomes completely irrelevant after you've used your skill set.

tl:dr shen IS a very viable tank who is high up in tier lists and frequently pick in high elo matches. there is really no need to buff him
Phrost
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States4008 Posts
September 25 2010 17:49 GMT
#20213
Shen is a tank with lower than average surviability, the highest possible map control, and a bit higher than average DPS, disruption, and escape.


The biggest thing about shen is he cant just run in and take an entire team's worth of dps at once without dying. He is not very tough but can be very effective if he can create a favorable situation that causes enemies to run.
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rredtooth
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
5464 Posts
September 25 2010 17:51 GMT
#20214
galio fucking sucks in 95% of team comps. he doesn't have it in him to taunt 5 enemies and just ends up exploding. definitely not better than shen.
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myopia
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2928 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-25 17:57:09
September 25 2010 17:52 GMT
#20215
On September 26 2010 02:41 Jupiter.sKy wrote:
are you kidding?
shen's taunt is vastly superior to rammus' considering how it taunts multiple targets in addition to it being a skill shot allows you traverse terrain.

I agree here

The nerf on his ulti is barely consequential considering how the damage shield on yourself is largely irrelevant while the shield on your carry matters. Shen's ulti allows him to protect the carry and be in a team fight while solo farming another lane.


I sorta agree here. Shen's ult is cool, my beef with it is that it's not nearly as useful of an ult in teamfights. Oh, you gave your squishy another 600 hp? Well Amumu/Galio/Rammus just killed your whole team anyways.


Feint is underestimated as a pure damage shield and is effectively a self-heal on a tank. Its certainly not worthless late game.


It got a buff recently but it's still meh with its energy cost and cooldown. I'd rather have Alistair healing the whole team or Amumu killing the whole enemy team, than a Shen giving himself a temp HP boost (which by using too often will leave him without energy to shadow dash)

Shen's damage is enough that he is still at threat to the carries and support of the other team, if you think he does no damage, your after the wrong targets.


He does no damage without sunfires. Anyone can buy sunfires.

In addition, shen is a very viable jungler making him a solid pick on many teams.


Shen is an awful jungler. Yes, he can jungle, but he's slow and can't gank.


If we compare shen to amumu, yes amumu's ult better makes him but that doesn't mean shen can't compete. Shen is much better than other tanky heros who you can basically ignore after a fight starts. Alistar is a complete trash tank who's whole purpose is a single target janna ulti and becomes completely irrelevant after you've used your skill set.


You can't ignore any of the tanks I listed. They do too much damage. Alistair has two disables to Shen's one, I'll take a good Alistair on my team anytime.
it's my first day
barbsq
Profile Joined November 2009
United States5348 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-25 17:59:39
September 25 2010 17:58 GMT
#20216
On September 26 2010 02:51 redtooth wrote:
galio fucking sucks in 95% of team comps. he doesn't have it in him to taunt 5 enemies and just ends up exploding. definitely not better than shen.


i like galio :'(

then again, i like all the heroes, so that kinda makes that opinion pointless..

fuck it, im going to sleep

edit: btw this thread is amusing if you like watching community flamewars lol

http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=263583
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Lobotomy
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States300 Posts
September 25 2010 17:58 GMT
#20217
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Iplaythings
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Denmark9110 Posts
September 25 2010 17:59 GMT
#20218
yay a stream to oggle on while youve no time for a game before dinner

Thanks bro' :D
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yazu
Profile Joined September 2010
United States255 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-25 18:21:21
September 25 2010 18:20 GMT
#20219
All you guys hating on shen, please just stop. Shen is a beast and I love the ninja dude. If used correctly he can be a huge asset to the team. His taunt is very versatile and brings a lot to teamfights, where you can go after there carries and shut them down. Its mind blowing how some people are calling him not useful. I guess some of you guys haven't played with a good shen.
g.cuisine
Jupiter.sKy
Profile Joined December 2009
United States50 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-25 18:23:08
September 25 2010 18:20 GMT
#20220
On September 26 2010 02:52 myopia wrote:
I sorta agree here. Shen's ult is cool, my beef with it is that it's not nearly as useful of an ult in teamfights. Oh, you gave your squishy another 600 hp? Well Amumu/Galio/Rammus just killed your whole team anyways.


Excuse me, but the tank doesn't kill a whole team, the carry does.

In addition, Alistar's heal is barely worth it as the heal amount has been nerfed for everyone but yourself.
As for damage, a tank is never meant to kill a whole team unless your playing some crazy pub-stomp game. Alistar's damage is negligible, galio's damage is easily avoided and low. Udyr is good for his constant CC, not his damage. Rammus never really does damage unless he rolls up and taunts your carry without ever being cc'd. Taric is more of a beefy support champ than a real tank and his only damage comes from his aura he gives his carry. Only nasus and singed can dish out large amounts of damage and they need to be farmed beyond belief for that to happen.
If any of these tanks are killing your whole team, your just clumping way too tightly or are plain out of position.


Shen an awful jungler? He levels at the same rate as your duo lane which means he's a decent jungler with good map control. As for ganking, he has a skill shot CC, don't know what else you'd need to gank a lane.

As for having an alistar on your team, you have the option of using alistar's cc to initiate and give the opposing team time to get back into position before the fight starts or to use it on some1 you can reach (probably the tank) in the middle of a team fight. Initiating with a punt back is decently effective, but considering how flash/ghost is used so often in competitive games, you need to follow up with another CC or you've just wasted your long CD skills and allowed the other team to get into position. Use your CC on the other team's tank and you've successfully initiated for them. Using your knock back on the carry will either put you extremely out of position and killed or make your carry vulnerable to the rest of their team.
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