Talk:Shen/@comment-8121733-20160113195132/@comment-5955640-20160113203427

Shen has a very specific Ninja fantasy. Being the great observer who brings balance to the force or something.

Vorpal Blade was excellent, but it was not fine. In solo lane it gave him fantastic sustain that was really hard to balance. Made his lanes boring and when he got Sunfire Cape you basically got pushed out of lane unless you were equally good at farming.

Did you read the info correctly? It's not a 3 auto ability it's more like Orianna's E when she casts it within range except if you hit someone with this it gives you some decent trading potential.

Spirit's Refuge is really good. I don't know how you can't see that the spell has some serious potential to make Solo Shen strong against certain opponents in lane, Support Shen a more interactive support and a better peeler, and for teamfights well. You'll have more than your ult and a good E to contribute to a fight.

There is also more ways to energy regen which is great as Shen suffered from that really badly.