Talk:Shen/@comment-168.8.249.173-20130118192858/@comment-128.153.218.11-20130120085209

Best support? By no means. Last ranked I played against a Shen support, he lost his lane HARD, couldn't do anything rest of the game. He can support, but then you're wasting his amazing jungle/top power. It's like running Zyra as support when she's so good as a mid laner.

Biggest gamechanger? He's damn well up there. Removal of Ionic Spark might have hurt his overall splitpushing speed, but there are very few champs who can join teamfights from across the map while giving one of their teammates a Warmog's worth of shielding.

You can't say that his viability is only in his ult. His Q gives him and his team some strong sustain in teamfights, his W helps him tank and apply his passive, which in turn deals more damage and gives him more energy to use moves like his E, which is a wonderfully strong AoE taunt.

He can also deal fairly strong sustained damage in teamfights. Frozen Mallet + Wit's + Sunfire lets you tank enough so that enemies shouldn't focus you, yet give you enough damage to screw them over either way.