Talk:Shen/@comment-28148011-20170522045949/@comment-25489490-20170531005254

Ya, he has like 300 hp permashield similar to what Udyr or Diana gets, but he has to hit skillshots to pull that off. And at the end of the day, it's similar to strong healing bruisers like Olaf or Trundle since it's just more health bar protection. The only problem with Shen is you can't 1v1 him with almost any champion at all, and he doesn't need his ultimate to do that. One way to balance shen is with items available, but since he can get sunfire, tiamat/magicresist, or just titanic hydra, it's hard to do any effective itemization to beat him 1v1 when he is super splitpushing. What League might need now is a counter to shields, or simply don't let the Shen proc his passive ever in combat. That might be the real counter.