Talk:Shen/@comment-75.25.170.54-20110206051852/@comment-3165723-20110224034151

he gains power from health, on top of being able to shut out a bit of damage for a couple seconds, and being able to disable, with good aiming and luck, an entire team for 2.5 seconds. i think Rammus is still in his at least somewhat unbalanced phase and will get nerfed eventually, but shen is still an extremely good tank, and a monster during laning. his Q-Melee with passive bonus combo is devastating to melee squishies. and being able to keep his health up constantly with a leveled Vorpal Blade gives him amazing staying power. he's even great for ganking, maybe not as much as Rammus, but not everyone can have a 3 second taunt. the thing about rammus is that his abilities have great synergy, but if you're able to remove the taunt from the equation, he becomes pretty useless. not saying that's easy, but a banshee's veil or other counter can make him useless, whereas shen at least gets a free save every minute or so on top of possibly turning the tables in a gank. Rammus and Shen are both different kinds of tanks, so i think it's hard to compare them. they're both really good.