Greeting xdetroitredwings, i wanted to tell yuo that i like this guide and you should add threats to other champs anyway i play shen for i long time allot times i carried with him, his E is fantastic just do combo E Q W and they are probably dead already. This guide is nice just upgrade it and it will be great.

Hey, I recently got Shen and I had a couple questions about him.

I've heard a lot of people say you should max your Q first, since it's your main source of damage and it allows you to reposition your sword more often so you can make use of your W, but you have your E being maxed first in the guide. And since his abilities section isn't completely up-to-date, there wasn't really an explanation for this. Would you mind clearing this up for me?

5 years ago: shen support?! burn the witch.
now: shen support is one if not the best way to play shen.
How the times change XD.

PS: will you update the guide? or just the items?

happen to think shen support is 10x more viable then shen top because of the simple fact most of his abilities are ally helping oriented keep up the good work on this Guide and plz keep it updated!

Pretty guide!

Hello there,

thank you for the nice Guide on Support Shen!
As a main Support i looked for some new Champions to play in the Game..i almost every Time play a Tank..so who´s there if you take out Leona or Thresh? I tried the Item Build and Runes/Masteries just a few Minutes ago.
Had a great Laningphase with my Ashe ADC, we got some good kills with the Shadow Dash and Vorpal Blade.
Hope you hold this Guide up to date!

Greetings
Saehara

Uh...Shen lanes better duo than top lane frankly. For two reasons.

First being Shen's kit is most useful assisting a teammate given Shen himself does low damage, but he offers good crowd control and sustain. Second being Shen is forced to build damage to solo lane successfully, which is not what he actually wants to build.

It's also worth noting that because he has a strong escape and poke, he counters other hard engage supports like Thresh, Leona, and Braum during the laning phase, because they literally don't have the tools to kill him as he whittles them down.

THAT is the reason why Shen support is actually viable right now, and should be played. Furthermore because Shen has his global ultimate, he's able to gain levels faster than other supports and contribute to roaming skirmishes more aggressively.

Top lane Shen wastes money for your team on a champion who can't actually beat that many matchups 1v1 without snowballing from ganks. In contrast by picking Shen as a support, your team gets to pick a better split push champion that can be assisted globally as Shen himself is able to slow push another lane simultaneously, which enables your team additional pressure strategies.

Next, you probably also aren't aware that Shen is also the single best champion in the game for team tanking Dragon. Q sustain is ludicrous for sneaking Dragon or otherwise securing it after down to the wire skirmishes.

So yeah...top lane Shen just HOPES he can win lane so that he can split push, and he's really bad if he doesn't win lane because then he just loses towers for his team and his ganking won't make up for it. Support Shen from the get go actually helps your team because he's good at laning and securing objectives, and also improves the flexibility of your team pick choices given he's a support that is valuable for initiating fights.

Didn't read all the comments but the Ancient Coin is much more profitable than Relic Shield. Runes seem pretty out of place too.

Yeah and I inspire to reach your level of guides (Simply Shen!) but to get a guide recognized before being viewed is difficult enough, I could make a really nice looking guide with good content but for people to see that it's actually there is difficult.

Don't be discouraged, I wrote my first guide before I reached level 30 as well and it didn't do very well. But I learned a lot from my mistakes and my next guide (on shen!) became the #1 shen guide on mobafire for a good chunk of season 3. It doesn't matter how many guides there are on any champion in any role, you can always make a better one if you really put the time in.

I understand. I wanted my first guide to be successful and how can you make a successful guide if there's already 120 of them out there. I wanted to try something different that would be one of a kind. Feel so useless now haha.

P.S too bad pengs lost against bruins just then ;)