Talk:Shen/@comment-4929259-20120509205651/@comment-76.184.66.92-20120515005749

I'm a shen veteran. I may only be level 28 but I have played 150-200 games with him and won 80 (thank you soloq for failing at life) so he is really my main. With shen, he has some strong points: He can throw his q to harass, dashtaunt/ult teleport save, and shield every 6 seconds (if you do it right). But if people know what they're doing, you will fall hard.

If you get ganked, your only escapes are ult and e, and if your ult is on e and you have less than 150 energy (you're an idiot or afking if you have more), you have one shot to dash, unless you happen to pass through champions, that makes 2. After this dash, which is ridiculously low range btw, you are pretty much screwed if they have a slow, because SHEN IS SLOW (or you didn't build him tank-support, you built AP or carry-shen like a noob).

If you solotop, you are screwed if the enemy has two of these things:

-Spammable/hard CC (includes alistar knockback and ashe slow)

-100+ larger harass range than your q

-More than 1 utility

-A solotop with a jungler better than yours

If you push too hard, jungler gets you. If you don't push and turret-hug, outfarm gets you. If you're somewhere in between, you might just win if you e-ki-q-w at the right times. Also, for some reason everyone on every team I'm on explodes if they die and I have ult ready. It may be a strong shield, but you cannot check their lane every second or you will get outfarmed, and if you don't check every second then it won't work. There is a 1-2 second window in a battle where a shield can work: too early and the enemy runs away, too late and ally dies. If he gets focused early then by the time he reaches mid-game it's too late for your team.

Ah, teamfights. You can ult, dash and then basically do nothing (unless you buy a frozen mallet). If you are ever attacked by a hybrid, or AD carry and an AP(even a support), you are screwed. You physically cannot build enough MR or Armor and HP to compensate: Build MR, carry gets you. Build Armor, caster destroys you. Build both, you're weak. If you somehow balance all these things, you cannot put out enough damage to do more than 1.5 seconds of disrupt and 25% chance to save 1 person. It sucks.