Talk:Shen/@comment-188.79.124.182-20120926085752/@comment-188.79.60.38-20121001130832

Original poster here.

Sunfire Cape? Good luck building that as a jungler, support on in a lane against a magic damage dealer like Cho'Gath, Vladimir or Kennen to put some examples. It is also a FAR worse tank item than Randuin's Omen. You can't compare Sunfire Cape's mild damage passive with the huge game-changing active of Randuin's Omen. It also grants better stats overall, with a nicer build path (Heart of Gold).

To the second reply, I know he's banned more than 90% of the time. My point is, he shouldn't, and I explained why I think so quite extensively. You are overrating him WAY too much.

Sunfire Cape + Ionic Spark is way too squishy for a champion that needs to be in the middle of everything, by the time you get this you will melt in teamfights like a dumb Master Yi jumping in with his Alpha Strike. Well, I'm exaggerating here. But almost. And no, that is not enough damage. Not even to bots. Anything with Lifesteal or Spellvamp will directly ignore your ass with these two items as reliable damage.