I could recommend leveling up the taunt first. Getting that lower cooldown will help a lot with early ganking. The q is fine damagewise that early, and by the time teamfighting starts you'll have your taunt at max cooldown (10 sec without cdr). I have yet to do that in the jungle, but I'd reccomend it in lane.

Thank you, Igglet! In fact, SFC can really help shen while getting his stacks PLUS increase his DPS. It's a really viable option since it's HP sync with his Hydra and it's passive will save a lot of time while in the jungle :33 Thanks.

Lol, just tried this out and won! Went 7/10/20 Early game was easy, late was hard even though ahead of gold.