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Rice
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1332 Posts
August 30 2011 01:59 GMT
#101
Im an old time shen main who just came back to the game a couple weeks ago... ive played him once since then and was very disappointed
Freedom will be defended at the cost of civil liberties.
Dgiese
Profile Joined July 2010
United States2687 Posts
September 14 2011 18:38 GMT
#102
Buffs to Shen sept 15th '11:
Shen
General: Base damage increased to 57.875 from 56.875
General: Damage per level increased to 3.375 from 3.075
General: Base armor increased to 23 from 22
Vorpal Blade: Base damage increased to 70/115/140/175/210 from 50/90/130/170/210
Vorpal Blade: Heal increased to 18/26/34/42/50 from 10/20/30/40/50 (over 3 seconds)
Vorpal Blade: Damage ability power ratio increased to 0.75 from 0.65
Vorpal Blade: Heal amount no longer increases with ability power
Feint ability power ratio increased to 0.75 from 0.6
Shadow Dash taunt duration increased to 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds from 0.8/1.1/1.4/1.7/2 seconds
Stand United: Ability power ratio increased to 1.5 from 1.0
Stand United: Energy cost reduced to 0 from 50

Anyone got any thoughts on this? Seems like is early game is a bit stronger... but i dunno if it's enough for him to be able to hang with the big boys of top lane.
Mogwai
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States13274 Posts
September 14 2011 18:40 GMT
#103
they stated they wanted him to be a jungler. I think he'll be a good jungler with these changes.
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gtrsrs
Profile Joined June 2010
United States9109 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-14 19:04:11
September 14 2011 18:43 GMT
#104
yeah he's definitely not going to have his laning power of old, but he will be better in lane. i'm gonna focus on some jungle routes today and see what i can come up with :D

also, if his gameplay has changed noticeably, i will be creating a new shen thread and requesting this one closed :3 so any last comments you have comment away!
i play ... hearthstone =\^.^/= Winterfox
Juicyfruit
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada5484 Posts
September 14 2011 19:52 GMT
#105
How does heart of gold + WotA sound as a standard build for the new Shen?
Mogwai
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States13274 Posts
September 14 2011 19:53 GMT
#106
it makes me want to shoot myself in the face. don't build AP on shen, it's still bad for the same reasons.
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Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11768 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-14 19:55:26
September 14 2011 19:54 GMT
#107
Isn't Loci doing AP Shen? >_>; And stomping peoplez? <_<;

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=265340&currentpage=6#112
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barbsq
Profile Joined November 2009
United States5348 Posts
September 14 2011 19:55 GMT
#108
BUT SMASH, IF I GET 1000000000000 AP I CAN Q SOME1 FOR HALF THEIR HP IF THEY GOTS NOT MRES!!!!
Look at this guy, constantly diluting himself! (╮°-°)╮┳━┳ ( ╯°□°)╯ ┻━┻
Mogwai
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States13274 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-14 19:57:34
September 14 2011 19:56 GMT
#109
I think he played one game and went 3-5 vs. HSGG's 15-0 Cho.

Shen's probably pretty good right now, but I just don't see why you would ever build AP on him when you can just buy tank/tanky deeps items on him.

EDIT: I love Loci and he's a fantastic player, but it's delusional to think that you should be building AP on Shen.
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Juicyfruit
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada5484 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-14 19:57:39
September 14 2011 19:57 GMT
#110
But WotA is an imba item
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
September 14 2011 19:58 GMT
#111
Only DPS shen I have had sucess with is trinity force shen, or trinity/rylais if you are super fed. Tanky DPS with trinity-->tank works if you abuse his ultimate well to make it worth him being a shitty champ.
Mogwai
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States13274 Posts
September 14 2011 20:02 GMT
#112
Trinity Shen is legitimately strong IMO. I mean, it's a, when-super-fed or lategame item on him, but it's very effective at making his damage output considerably better. I could also see Force of Atmog's working on him because of his Passive.

I mean, honestly, as a long time Hybrid DPS Shen troller, they nerfed his AP's sustained effectiveness by removing the ratio on the heal from vorpal. And he's not a burster, so who cares that his burst shielding/damaging is slightly increased?
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Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
September 14 2011 20:05 GMT
#113
I dunno everyone got a hard on for gunblade when trinity force is everything a melee needs to do damage especially with something as spammable as shen q.
Juicyfruit
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada5484 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-14 20:27:47
September 14 2011 20:18 GMT
#114
Not Gunblade, WotA!

I mean, if you are getting solo-farm from the start then you should just get a fast sunfire to abuse that amazing DPS for early game, or fast warmogs.

I guess I'd rather play Shen more as a support hero so that he can 100% concentrate on harassing the enemy team with his vorpal shit. WotA just happens to have the best aura at the moment in my opinion because there's maybe like TWO champions that wouldn't benefit heavily from 25% spell vamp.

You won't able to dive balls deep into the enemy team for their squishies though, but I imagine you'd be a very versatile babysitter in teamfights.
myopia
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2928 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-14 23:13:42
September 14 2011 23:08 GMT
#115
how do you harass with a near-melee range spell (speaking post-lane phase ofc, you're not going to have a wota on Shen and still be laning)


actually I'll cross post my thoughts from yesterday
On September 14 2011 12:33 myopia wrote:
Shen buffs are a joke IMO, he's still completely ignorable late game. Riot changing his AP ratios is farcical - where are all these AP items Shen is supposed to be buying, while still maintaining his energy based tank role? Rylais, Abyssal... that's it? (Don't forget Q is his only method of proccing Rylai's) oh man they actually REMOVED his heal AP ratio? seriously, Riot?

Shen's kit has been problematic since they so thoroughly nerfed randuin's and sunfire. He doesn't have any items to call his own.


his skills are still too watered down (or totally useless in W's case), and he doesn't scale well. Tanks like Amumu/Cow/Cho still make Shen look bad. Really bad.
it's my first day
UniversalSnip
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
9871 Posts
September 14 2011 23:38 GMT
#116
On September 15 2011 04:56 Mogwai wrote:
I think he played one game and went 3-5 vs. HSGG's 15-0 Cho.

Shen's probably pretty good right now, but I just don't see why you would ever build AP on him when you can just buy tank/tanky deeps items on him.

EDIT: I love Loci and he's a fantastic player, but it's delusional to think that you should be building AP on Shen.


rylais seems so legit on paper though
"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."
myopia
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2928 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-14 23:43:50
September 14 2011 23:42 GMT
#117
rylais means shen can slow 1 person for 1.5 seconds, every 3 seconds. compare that to any number of AP champs who can proc it with all 4 (5 with brand's passive I think?) of their skills.

frozen mallet is a better choice for shen, ap ratios or not
it's my first day
UniversalSnip
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
9871 Posts
September 14 2011 23:46 GMT
#118
yeh suppose you're right
"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."
Vlanitak
Profile Joined November 2009
Norway3045 Posts
September 15 2011 00:04 GMT
#119
imo with the buffs last patch there is no reason to not play him as a top lane bruiser ->late game tank. I mean he has good sustain from his Q+energy system he has a shield and easy to last hit+ ganking top lane when there is a taunt which can both be used in allied ganks and to escape enemy ganks is just like a free flash basically.

I suggest to thee the following build:
Boots or Shield opening
HoG
Revolver for more sustain
giants belt (to increase dat passive early on)
finish Bunglade
build Sunfire or Warmogs depening on how well you farm (preferably warmogs)
Force of Nature just because your shen and HP is all you need (and bunglades)
another Gunblade for that even better shield, ult and heal from Q allowing you to in theory stay in battle longer (imagne that shen's Q is like Vlad's and the longer you stay in a fight and lock on to a target the longer you live and become a machine gun)
Finish Randuin's at some point
and ofc finish Merc treads aswell (unless you wanne do the super AP build and get Moonflair, and can get tabi or cdr boots)
washed
OreoBoi
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada1639 Posts
September 15 2011 00:45 GMT
#120
I like getting WotA so that you can use your q to last hit as well as get life back
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