User blog comment:Mashad'q/Shen's Big Rework for his Skills./@comment-24464243-20141023095126

So ... you say nobody builds AP on him, and that's a problem because his skills don't scale because of that.

But, defensive itemization for AD is strictly worse, plus you didn't modify the ratios aside from flipping them to AD ( or half AD, in Shadow Dash's case ) and making his Q's actually lower. When ... you get far less AD than AP, meaning it scales so much worse.

Sure, his basic attacks would also benefit from his AD, but 75% total AD on his abilities is kind of crappy. The only benefit on them is that their damage goes up with his level since they scale with total AD instead of bonus AD, but I'm not even sure if that's intentional.

Let's not forget how you've gutted his base values, which, as someone who usually goes full tank, is basically completely backwards.

The bonus movement speed on his W is simply ridiculous. That's nearly 90 bonus movement speed. Before boots.

Abilities scaling with current energy is an interesting idea, I suppose, but it seems counterintuitive on Shen who uses a ton of his energy early, and it's especially strange on his ultimate since most times he'll use it he'll be at max energy anyway, so it's not really relevant and is basically an extra base value of 40 / 70 / 100.

Ki Strike dealing true damage is simply absurd, though.

It's a very strange direction you're trying with this. I'd imagine that Shen's problem is simply the fact that a disruptor that can be anywhere on the map just isn't that useful in the current meta. He doesn't seem to need a rework, he just needs the meta to shift a bit, and the experimental changes for season 5 seem like they're going to leave some major marks.