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Yummy Rice's In-Depth Preseason Top Lane Shen

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I feel like its only right that to share this with you, as a fellow Shen player. I used a slightly modified version of your Shen Sustain build and practiced about 50 games with it. Using said build, I got my first ever pentakill--on Shen no less!!!

Thanks again for making this awesome guide as it got me started on my path of the Shen-sational ninja!

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That's awesome to hear!!! I'm happy that my guide gave you an idea on what to start with. Overall, it is up to you and what you think will work best with Shen. I just provided the basics =)

This is a Shensational guide! I think I might become a Shen main because of it. Thank you for going into so much detail and making your guide easy to follow. It's a massive help to a noob like me.

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Thank you for enjoying my guide! I hope this guide gave you an idea on how to start playing Shen!

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I love the way you formatted your stuff, it's really good, approves! :)

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Thank you very much! Appreciate your comments, I can definitely do better though haha.

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Shensational Shenergy +1

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XD! Also loved your Making a Guide, Guide. It helped me greatly when making my guide.

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Really great Shen guide, can tell you put a lot of effort into it, but why isn't there a section on how to play Wukong?

literally my 5th match following this guide (love the approach velocity frozen mallet build) ****ing carried lmao https://prnt.sc/q7uykr

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Holy **** that's an amazing score. Your build is super good for peeling and being a full utility super HP tank for your team. Approach Velocity/Frozen Mallet build is very good when you're doing a protect carry comp/peel/stick.

Brilliant guide, I feel Shen is one of the most unique and fun champs out there, thanks so much for putting in the time to write this its really helped me :)

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Thank you for enjoying my guide! Shen definetly is a unique and very fun champion with high outplay potential. I'll be updating more of this guide during season 10 as well.

Hey.
I love this guide and i will use it!
Keep going man! Thanks

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Thanks for your kind words <3!

I love the idea of running approach velocity and building the frozen mallet but i was wondering when or in what order do you actually build it?

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If I'm doing okay or quite well, I'll pick it up after my waveclear item such as Sunfire Cape. It's usually built 2nd or 3rd in my builds. If you ever catch me streaming on youtube, I often build and run this page to great success.

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Great guide. I appreciate you taking the time to make a quality guide on shen. He's one of my favorite top laners. Your guide is great at giving builds for different situations and uses. Please keep up the good work!

Nice Job!

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Thank you for your compliment! :D

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Good guide but i usually play him on topo

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This is a top guide.

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So I have to ask this because its my main role and I honestly do this. Do you think this build would work for jungle Shen? I know I used to run grasp on him in the jungle and it worked fairly well.

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I'm not the greatest at jungling though if you would like my insight on it, I actually run something totally different for jungling. I run Predator Shen taking Ingenious Hunter (2nd rune is preference). I then build a bunch of active items (Tiamat, Randuin's, Locket, Predator, Zz'rot, Jungle Item) and call my build MMO Active Build Predator Jungler Shen LOL. The Ingenious hunter when stacked (easy to do as Shen) will reduce the CD on your active items to pretty low amounts which makes teamfighting/utility more useful.

Hi Linky,

Patch 6.18 is out and Shen has got a pretty big set of nerfs to him. The changes if you don't know are the following.

Ki Barrier (Passive): base shield reduced to 50-101 (levels 1-18) from 52-120 (levels 1-18)

Twilight Assault (Q): Damaged reduced to 2/2.5/3/3.5/4% of the target's maximum health from 3/3.5/4/4.5/5% of the target's maximum health.

Enhanced damage reduced to 4/4.5/5/5.5/6% of the target's maximum health from 5/5.5/6/6.5/7% of the target's maximum health

So what do you think about these nerfs and how will it effect Shen in LCS as he is popular right now.

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Hi I've posted a video on what I think about the 6.18 nerfs on my channel and should be on the guide. As well, I've been doing streams based on this patch.

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