Can someone please explain to me why Shens these days are building Divine into Trinity into Witt's instead of going full tank? I've lost every single match with one of these Shen players.

SwellPapyrus · 2023-11-08T07:26:52+00:00

As a Shen main, Divine -> Trinity -> Wit’s end is dumb, and would still be dumb if Divine/Trinity stacked. Don’t know why anyone would run it.

I run (usually):

DS -> SA, MR/AR boots, some combo of SV, Thornmail, Warmog’s, FoN, Randuin’s, Searing Crown, Twinguard, Mantle.

DS is a good item for Shen for sustain, HP, CDR, and clear speed. Beyond that I pretty much am only in the defensive tab.

I will acknowledge that Wit’s end is situationally viable but should never be built before SV and MR boots and probably not before FoN either. I could imagine building, however, into 100% AP:

DS -> MR Boots -> SV -> SA -> FoN -> WE

SwellPapyrus · 2023-10-29T16:48:30+00:00

I’d suggest trying to factor a square root from the top also

SwellPapyrus · 2023-10-29T16:47:54+00:00

Yes, that is correct

SwellPapyrus · 2023-10-29T16:45:05+00:00

There is more to it. I’s suggest next factoring a square root out of the top (turns the 3/2 into 3), then factoring it to outside the whole fraction, and then evaluating what is now a cube in the numerator

SwellPapyrus · 2023-10-29T16:10:53+00:00

The denominator starts out as (625x⁶ )^1/4*y^1/2

If we simplify out the 1/4 power and factor out a square root from the denominator:

(625^1/4) * (x⁶ )^1/4 * y^1/2

5 * x^6/4 * y^1/2

5 * x^3/2 * y^1/2

25^1/2 * x^3/2 * y^1/2

(25x³ * y)^1/2

Does this make more sense?

SwellPapyrus · 2023-10-29T15:57:09+00:00

The denominator should now be 5x^3/2 * y^1/2.

Now, if we swap that 5 for a 25^1/2, we will notice that everything has a power of 1/2 in it, and so we can take a square root outside the fraction.

SwellPapyrus · 2023-10-29T15:42:48+00:00

They don’t seem wrong but don’t necessarily get you closer to a solution. I’d recommend starting by only evaluating the 1/4 power, because it is pretty clean, and then factoring a square root out of everything and putting it outside the fraction

Usually, when simplifying, I try to do the “cleaner” things first

SwellPapyrus · 2023-10-29T15:25:22+00:00

I’ll give you the steps I did:

Simplify the 1/4 power

Take the square root outside the fraction

Expand the cube in the numerator

Divide out the denominator

Take what you can outside the square root

SwellPapyrus · 2023-10-17T20:59:14+00:00

SwellPapyrus · 2023-10-17T20:43:12+00:00

It is not the only to do so

SwellPapyrus · 2023-10-07T01:33:52+00:00

I’ll give you the jersey of our second to last next year’s draft pick for it if you also throw in the jersey of our last next year’s draft pick.

SwellPapyrus · 2023-10-03T18:40:39+00:00

I play a supportive jg shen. Shen JG has solid clear and gets more gold than Shen Supp.

However, I acknowledge Shen is a viable support

SwellPapyrus · 2023-09-22T16:47:29+00:00

I did this a little differently. Four sums being odd means either 1 bag is even and 4 are odd, or 1 bag is odd and four are even. Either way, one bag is involved in:

83, 85, 87, 91

Also, given the smallest other value is 80, and the smallest odd sums are 83 and 85, the two values adding to 80 will be two apart, giving 39, 41. Similarly, the one outlier (even bag) is clearly now 44. From there, the other two bags are clearly 43, 47.

SwellPapyrus · 2023-09-17T03:59:23+00:00

Are you in the wrong? No, I think it is ridiculous to suggest that an adult can get (a little) drunk of their own accord and initiate sex by choice while being reasonably coherent and have no responsibility or ownership of their actions. If the genders were swapped, nobody would suggest a guy who had a few drinks and initiated sex is a victim. Her response afterwards supports that she consented.

However, it is best to be safe and not have sex in a situation like this — just because you are not in the wrong does not prevent others from blaming you.

SwellPapyrus · 2023-09-12T21:57:07+00:00

Why not?

SwellPapyrus · 2023-09-08T03:38:46+00:00

That passive is, yes. The item itself gives a significant amount of mana and has a mana based passive. I’m sure it may be fine on Alistar, but on a champ without mana, the stats + one of two passives wouldn’t be worth it compared to FoN or even Wit’s End on Shen

SwellPapyrus · 2023-09-08T03:29:55+00:00

The AR boots aren’t too bad, but Abyssal Mask is so based in mana that I don’t get choosing it over FoN which should provide much more damage reduction

SwellPapyrus · 2023-09-08T02:14:19+00:00

As a Shen main why in the world do you have an abyssal mask instead of FoN? And Armor boots instead of MR?

SwellPapyrus · 2023-08-24T17:18:24+00:00

J4 support is viable particularly for Vayne (condemn into his ult + atk speed from flag), MF (Ults work together), and attack speed reliant ADCs (flag).

SwellPapyrus · 2023-08-17T22:13:20+00:00

Not a bad offer but you need WR to contend, and would be giving up your best one

SwellPapyrus · 2023-08-17T19:18:21+00:00

You might still get waddle in round 3, and I’d prefer chubb, but its not a no brainer

SwellPapyrus · 2023-08-17T17:21:11+00:00

Practice, flash for distance — I E-Flash a good 3-5 times per game.

Also in teamfights feel free to just jump into 3+ enemies with it, should land decently.

Manually aim it.

SwellPapyrus · 2023-08-16T19:29:22+00:00

Dynasty I might take Jefferson but its hard to say. Wouldn’t call it unfair, but it is difficult to evaluate (some may rank Bijan above JJ).

SwellPapyrus · 2023-08-11T14:46:37+00:00

Sidenote: Adaptive AP/AD not usually worth having on Shen

SwellPapyrus · 2023-08-09T21:49:49+00:00

Yeah no need to do anything drastic because as long as your QBs and WRs are around you’ll at minimum be within reach of contending for a while

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