Talk:Shen/@comment-69.9.93.182-20130110000450/@comment-4677525-20130113083015

Worthless, hardly? Overrated (at least in solo queue), probably. A good Shen is plenty powerful and I've carried my fair share of games from out of the jungle, but he really requires a combination of good initiative, timing and map awareness. Many people who ban him believe he is an "auto-win" champ so when people don't ban him, they make the mistake of blindly picking him up without any idea on how to play him (hence the lower than expected win-rates with him).

Also, while his ult is powerful, it has a punishingly long CD even at max rank so "whiffing" it (yes, it is possible) can hamper Shen for a good portion of the game. He does have his AoE taunt, but it's a dodgeable skillshot that also has a long CD at early ranks.

Basically, I feel that is in no need of changes at this point. S3 did hit him a bit, but he really takes team coordination to be at max efficiency. Compare that real solo queue threats like Evelynn and Katarina that can make fairly strong and safe plays simply by exploiting the enemy team's lack of coordination.