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The Immovable Object - HP Shen






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Spells:
Exhaust
Ghost
Ability Order
Ki Barrier (PASSIVE)
Shen Passive Ability
Introduction
NOTE: You should not buy everything at the top, explained further in the item section of the guide
Nearly Impossible to kill
Great staying power
Uses energy instead of mana
Harassment skill (

Useful in team fights
Mulitple Target Taunt (

Cons
Not good underfed
Not much dps (you're a tank after all)
Weak to Kog'Maw
Weak Solo Laner




The runes consist of a mix damage and survivability runes. For my marks, I use magic penetration to maximize the usefulness of the vorpal blade. I use dodge seals, as any damage that can be outright avoided is useful for a tank. Take Cooldown Reduction Glyphs to make the most use of spamming your taunt and vorpal blade.

This is your passive, and a useful ability against champions and minions alike. With this health build, you should can be doing much more damage against other champions, especially with a reduced cooldown from them being foolish enough to attack you.

Your bread and butter. It is your primary way of dealing damage, and adds a life steal and can harass early game. Its range is pretty fair for a tank, and can allow you to score last hits on champs and minions. Spam this if you can.

a useless skill. You may think that negating damage would be important to a tank, but the damage to energy used ratio is not in its favor. Even when maxed out, 250 damage is almost nothing endgame, and the energy should be better used on another shadow dash or vorpal blade. The only use I see for it is to avoid those close calls ignites or DOTs. Let AP shens take this one.

NOTE: It is a skill shot(no lock-on) and the arrow shown IS NOT a part of its range.
Your initiator. This is a very important skill.This taunt is better than most tanks, as you regain health upon catching a champion with it, and can hit multiple champions if well aimed. This can also save your teammates when in trouble. It can also be used as an escape, even through trees. A great skill indeed.

This is essentially a teleport with a shorter cooldown. This will setup ganks or allow you to save your teammates (karthus' ult). BE WISE ABOUT USING THIS, as it is not spammable, so don't waste it on a teammate that decided to farm by himself without his fellow teammates, or someone who is stuck in the middle of the entire enemy team. This will give them not only one kill, but two. Use with caution.


Recommended Summoner Spells

You're really slow. This spell compensates, and does even more. It can avoid minions and get to your team in a close fight, chase down weak enemy champions, defend turrets and even avoid dying.

To setup kills for you or your teammates, as a kill is usually going to help your team in the long run. It can be a game changer to break a team's morale by killing off their strongest member thanks to your exhaust.
Worth Mentioning

This will allow you to setup ganks or save a dying teammate when your ult is on cooldown. It can help early game when you need to get back to your lane quickly. You can also get back into the fight late game when the respawn times are longer.

This has the pretty much the same uses as exhaust, but is useful early game when they do not have many defenses against it. Its usefulness wanes during late game, and that's why exhaust is a better choice overall.
CORE
You should start by buying a



After you build that, you should grab a

MAGIC/AP

ARMOR

Now we move on to the heart of the build,

As this point, you're probably thinking wtf, where's the armor/magic resist? Well Shen's stats scale amazingly with armor, and we plugged the hole in your magic resist with

After that, you should heading towards your endgame.
ARMOR


MAGIC/AP


Dotter and Adonikam also mentioned using a


An 6th item alternative would be to use a


TLDR:
ARMOR
AP
During the laning phase, you should always have a partner. Shen, like most tanks, is not an amazing laner and will need some support. Focus on last hitting with



In team fights, use



Points to remember:
1) You should always be with someone except when defending a turret, as your dps output will usually be subpar compared to your carries. (primary damage dealers)
2) Despite your stats, you are not invincible. If the whole team focused you, you will die just like anyone else. Remember to wait for your team members before initiating a fight.
3) You can still buy elixirs when you don't have items! Buy an


Misconceptions
Won't a

This is not true to the slightest. When you are level 18, you will have about +3000k health. This will be about 120 damage without armor. But remember, this is MAGIC damage, so it will be much less at this point, and the passive is UNIQUE so it cannot stack by building multiple ones. The most it'll do to a fed Shen will tickle.
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