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Recommended Items
Runes: Main runes (TOP & MID)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Items
Ability Order
Ki Barrier (PASSIVE)
Shen Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Aatrox
Strong agianst you, try to W his AA. Dodging his Q's are key in this matchup. Bramble vest early is a good choice in this lane. Play passive, he wins extended trades.
Shaco
You can ult him when he's invisible and the 2 of you can get behind an enemy team.
Shaco
You can ult him when he's invisible and the 2 of you can get behind an enemy team.
Champion Build Guide
Introduction |
Pros & Cons |
Mechanics |
And please excuse that sometimes there are some grammatical errors in this guide, I'm originally from Hungary and never learned english in school.
Now enjoy the guide!
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E + Flash
Q + E + Flash [Useful for fast burst]
#1.
Stand United 6 / 11 / 16 #2. Twilight Assault 1 / 3 / 5 / 7 / 9 #3. Shadow Dash 2 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 13 #4. Spirit's Refuge 4 / 14 / 15 / 17 / 18 |
The most important Shen ability is Stand United, because It's so powerful to save the adc in a teamfight, or a teammate is able to survive a towerdive. It's powerful but for beginner players It's hard the perfect timing with it, but if you keep playing the champion slowly you will get used to always watching the map and all the lanes in the game. The second most important is of course the Twilight Assault, when it goes through an enemy champion it gets a buff, which means that your AA power and speed is increased. The position of your blade is very important in the laning phase. [Look at the picture below and read the trading chapter for easier understanding]. Shadow Dash plays a very important role in Shen's kit, if you dash through an enemy you taunt them for 1.5 second and deal physical damage to them. If you go through more than 1 enemy it taunts them too. Taunt means that the enemy you dashed through starts following you and slowy attacking. Spirit's Refuge creates a defensive zone around Shen's blade for 1.75 which blocks every auto attack that would hit Shen OR the allies that stand in the zone. In teamfights It's very important to cast the abilty at the right time so it blocks a lot of damage. |
Example
"Offensive" blade positioning
"Defensive" blade positioning
Now I don't want you to get confused with the offensive and defensive blade positioning. If you scroll back a little bit and look at the Q + E + Flash combo, the blade is not at the back of the enemy, but that doesn't mean it's "defensive". The offensive/defensive spirit blade refers to the laning phase.
oooSo you want to learn trading fast? Okay, I can put it in 2 ways to you.
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Offensive We have our blade in an offensive position, which is behind the enemy champion. We do this when we're dominant in the lane and we know can win short/extended trades. A lot of player undervalues Shen's empowered Q's damage. |
We finally came to an end, I'm quite happy of what I've made, but of course there's always room for improvement. This is the first guide I've ever done, BBCode got me a little confused at the start and I started writing in Python format. I worked on it for a day 24/7, at the end I got tired like a baby. Jhojhoi's Mobafire guide helped a lot honestly, there were a lot of stuff I just couldn't figure out. I'm thinking about some other guides to make, but for now I'm satisfied with this work.
Thank you for anyone who read this through!
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