✅ D1 to Challenger in 3 Weeks
✅ First Ever Shen Mid in Challenger
✅ 3rd Highest Winrate in EUW Challenger
✅ End-of-Season Fiestas and LP Gains
✅ Will Continue to Push Shen’s Limits
MagiFelix can be 20% HP on a 9/0 Syndra with 25 Mejai's stacks and still flash in front of a Caitlyn Ultimate for his Shen... This is not a human. He is a god.
Global Shen Boycott (Day 1/X)
Shen mains all over the world are Standing United and refusing to play the champion in its current state.
Lots of people completely missing my point and arguing with ">50% winrate champ why complain". High WR =/= Fun to play.
Riot, do you hear us?
Wave clear is not real. It is a delusion. Can you touch "wave clear"? No. It is a concept created by mid laners to prevent you from picking Shen mid. Don't be fooled by their propaganda.
REVITALIZE IS SCAM
Here are Revitalize stats from a 27-min game. Seems OK? I watched the replay and wrote down every heal and shield amount...
719 bonus healing from Fountain (no value)
917 bonus shielding out of combat (no value)
True numbers: 290 | 876
Overgrowth is better.
Shen will always be good in SoloQ due to his R (most broken ability in the game). However, I feel like his fun aspects, e.g., early damage and mid-game tankiness, are gone. I have still not recovered from Patch 12.2 Empowered Q nerf. Without Shen, League is not fun for me.💜
Try not to climb in League challenge (impossible)
1) Pick a champion to OTP with <5% P&B rate
2) Play 1 ARAM and watch 1 replay before ranked
3) Take at least 5 minute breaks between games
4) Never play more than 5 games in a day
5) Sleep 8-9 hours every night
I invented a new playstyle for Shen. The build utilizes support items like Redemption for fast power spikes, and thus I call it RedempShen. I will upload an in-depth guide next week.
- 50 Games played with a 74% winrate (37W 13L)
- Gained ~350 LP in 4 days (Master to Challenger)
Shen Boycott Day 10/?
Word of our boycott has spread through various YouTube channels.
Riot Phroxzon contacted me and together with the Shen community, I sent him an extensive list of Spirit’s Refuge inconsistencies.
Gigachad lead dev saves Shen and League?
Find out soon.
LS is about to reach KR Master with a nasty Shen jungle winstreak today. Been watching his stream and he's actually clearing well (pre-Qing camps)! I still think you should go Ultimate hunter over Relentless but he's definitely cooking here with the Redempshen build.
People keep asking me about Shen runes post-durability era, so here’s my current go-to page. Grasp of the Undying is still the best and I like going 12 points in Ferocity for Battle Trance. Recovery and Feast for sustain. Veteran’s Scars might be better than Runic though?
What if Riot spent 10 minutes per champ talking to high elo OTPs and made the game more fun for everyone. Really liking the fact that I have to play Shen like Soraka rushing Radiant Virtue every game, zero interaction with enemy laner and just win because bot better 👍🏻
I WAS WRONG ABOUT THE RUNES!
I played a lot of Shen jungle these past days and I now think that LS was right about the runes.
Relentless > Ultimate Hunter: My intuition said Ultimate hunter is better, but I was clouded by my solo lane experience, ms in jg is op. (Who knew? :D)
"Finding and interviewing OTPs would take too much time and money"
An intern can easily do 40 interviews and summarize the feedback in a week. So it would take maybe one month of intern work to cover all champions.
"OTPs are biased and they only want buffs for their champion"
@Drututt
Your kayle and smolder are just insane win cons. Well played.
All you need now is some mutual respect throughout the team. Good luck in next match!
After a month of boycotting, Shen received 3 bugfixes to his W and some indirect buffs. Thanks to Riot Phroxzon for reaching out and communicating with me. I would have loved some R nerfs and skill expression buffs but let us be grateful for what we have. Boycott is now over.
He did this in two lobbies in a row to me but I guess it's ok because he plays in LEC! Constant target bans and ghosting kinda make high ELO annoying. I love the game but at the end of the day I'm glad that it's only a hobby for me.
Riot didn't learn from last summer when they randomly buffed Shen and then had to nerf him immediately. This champion is so strong already and players achieve high winrates while building and playing him completely suboptimally. (1/2)
After 5 months of academic grinding, I have successfully finished and presented my bachelor's thesis. I am really proud of the end result and the work that I put in. Time to load up League and work on a new video for a change.
Fell on my hand while skiing in -30C, wrist bone broke. Season 14 not looking too good for me. 5 weeks with brace but I’ll bounce back and get it stronger than before.
I remember running all over the Rift, searching for these bad boys because my brother told me that ”there’s a family of lizards that make your attacks burn.” It was my 2nd game of LoL ever and I did not even know how to use the minimap. Good times.
Best PBE Change: Bami’s Cinder is no longer a mythic component, so you can rush it for waveclear and then build a bruiser/damage mythic. SHEN BUILD VARIETY IS SAVED.
Titanic Hydra active gone. Tower plates added. New W bugs every patch. Empowered Q damage nerfed. Passive shield nerfed. Frostfire removed. Forced to build support items. Look how they massacred my boy... 💜🪦
TOP 5 Least fun champs to play:
Left to right matters, imo league has a pretty good champ roster with mostly fun champs, but these champs have lower skill ceilings while also offering less reward compared to other champs & dont really give the same dopamine hit on montage plays
The best tournament is coming back, please retweet so i can find captains for the missing countries, would apprecite it deeply :3
Same rules as last one, but this time bigger. Since twitch rivals are always shit i decided to host a better one myself.
Enjoy the ride
My YouTube channel officially passed the 200K Subscriber mark today. I never imagined that my home-made videos could provide entertainment and inspiration for so many people. I will be taking a break until October to finish my Bachelor's thesis and to maintain my well-being. <3
@RiotPhreak
Power neutral change for Shen:
- Nerf Ult CD (still feels powerful to use)
- Buff Empowered Q (doesn’t buff waveclear and mindless trading, rewards for skill expression, enemy can counterplay by playing around blade)
Would love to talk with you for 10 min about Shen.
Fiora is getting rescripted in 13.20. This shouldn’t realistically do anything to her, but of course any rescript runs the risk of adding bugs as it removes some.
SHEN NERF ANALYSIS 🫡
FACT: In order to break even on the shield, you need to gain 150 BONUS HP per level, e.g. at lvl 11 (Mythic + Boots completed) you would need 1500 bonus hp. The only way to achieve this is Heartsteel rush (800 HP) + Overgrowth (~100HP) + Grasp/HS stacks. 🫥
I collaborated with RossBoomsocks to create the "Mathematically Correct" build for Shen. If you're evenly leveled with your opponents, you can kill anyone from 100% HP with one Extended Trade (6 Q-AAs). I'll be working on a competitive variation of this build soon™.
@RiotPhroxzon
If we're in the Shen buffing business, please improve his dueling/combat and don't just buff his ultimate again. Some very biased and not objective ideas:
- Empowered Q gains slight bonus AD ratio?
- Q damage works with lifesteal (currently spell damage)
(yes I build ravenous)
Patch 14.15 introduced a change to Spear of Shojin to benefit champs with AA-based spells (e.g. Rek'Sai). However, this change does not apply to Shen for some reason. Shen Q does not gain stacks or benefit from damage increase.
@RiotPhroxzon
@RiotPhreak
Let me cook.
Another trick that you can utilise ALMOST every game in top. Throughout my individual coachings I have yet to find a student that had this habit before, so even though it looks easy, people don't use this enough.
Check out my youtube/Patreon for guides on tricks&fundamentals 😎
Every single viable bruiser/damage item on Shen gives AD. However, he only has AP scalings in his kit. Shen has no good AP items (expect Riftmaker into tanks but its still kinda troll).
It feels bad that the 50% of the stats Shen buys are completely wasted. Just a thought.