What is the point of taking kills for yourself?Giving them to AD/AP carry is way more effective.You should have over 35-40 assists to be a good tank.Also,you magic resistance is very low.Also,I need to mention this. Ninja Tabi does make you more ninja(-.-),but using Mercury's Treads is way more effective due to your low MR and tenacity.In my opinion it's very stupid to level up your Vorpal Blade because if you are playing role of tank you should stand in front of your carry and soak up the damage.Also,you will use your taunt to taunt your enemies,so if YOU are gonna taunt them,you will need more endurance,so that is why leveling up your shield is way better than then leveling up Vorpal Blade.

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Awesome guide! +1

+1. Really detailed guide. Should be #2 or #1.

+ Great tips on his skills!
+ Nice use of BBCoding and artwork.

- Not really sure about your Marks and Quints...
- Starting with Ruby Crystal is pretty weird.
- Items on Cheat Sheet are not finished. May I suggest Wit's End? :)
- Indomitable and Scout are pretty bad, better take Vigor and Good Hands / Runic Affinity / Greed .
- No need to explain all items, just the finished ones will do.
- No columns - QQ.
- You should add sections about Warding, Jungling/Support Shen, what to do when your jungler comes to gank and team fights. This will make your guide way more in depth, explaining pretty much everything there is to a champion.

Enough tips I guess, my ratings:

Appearance: 8/10
Cheat Sheet: 7/10
Contents: 7/10

All in all pretty good but not finished. A 7,3 is my score for now, I hope that you will use my tips and come back for a re-review once you implement them :) Good luck!

Beautiful explanations.
Thank you!

I'm going to test this teleport+revive combo. Although I played so many games with Shen, I never tried this out before. In my opinion still Ghost+ Teleport is the most viable, but let's give it a try. :)

Thanks for the review and yes, I am the guy that plays with Photonman41 :D

Thank you for the review!

I will definately fix the underestimed part because you are right, now hes very overplayed.
I will highlight the split pushing part more because it is such a big deal with Shen.
I find that if you are getting a strong amount of cs in the laning phase that Warmog's Armor is a better choice because of the extra health it gives. The slow from Frozen Mallet I think isn't very useful early game even when getting ganks.
The extra 10 energy from the masteries is often overlooked but when you are constantly out of energy with his high cost abilites it is nice to get your Shadow Dash or Feint off a couple seconds sooner.
And with the damage reduction, I just prefer it although I can see where you are coming from :)

Lastly the reason I named it "Wall of pain" is because you are constantly in their face (Like a wall) and can cause some serious pain with the right amount of health. I wasn't actually aware that there was a Karthus reference until just recently xD.

Thank you for the review again!

-Turtality

Pretty decent Shen guide.

Here's what I'd like to point out:

• Shen isn't underestimated now... He's much more overestimated for all the "OMG SHEN OP PLZ BAN" kind of talks. In fact, even now Shen doesn't mean instawin, although he's a huge advantage for his team since he can be split pushing all day without even worrying of having a lack of map presence. He's anywhere anytime. And especially, with Teleport.
• Regarding split pushing... I think you should list it as one of Shen's biggest pro's
• Your build is fairly good. What I wanted to ask is why Warmog's Armor over Frozen Mallet as a main health item? I think FM is way better as of now just for the crazy slow that it provides. As long as you get close to someone, you just stick to them all day :O
• I'm thinking 9-21-0 would be better then 0-21-9, because 10 energy is really nothing while 10% magic pen. and some CDR (considering a superlong cooldown on Stand United would be pretty good). Alternatively AS/Armor pen. is good too, since new Shen works quite well with Attack Speed.
• I like movespeed mastery in defense tree over the one with flat DMG reduction (2 damage is absolutely nothing, seriously =/). But that's just my preference.

What I would suggest to add:

• Include some sort of "Map Awareness/Ally Awareness" section. It's a huge part of playing Shen since his ult can make or break him.
• A split pushing section would be nice to see as well.
• Add a jungling build maybe? I've seen many jungle Shens lately. I guess that might get you some votes if you add it.

Finally, I have a question... Why such a name? When I try to think about "Wall of pain" in LoL sense, the only thing that comes to mind is Karthus's Wall of Pain xD
Or do you mean that Shen is a wall that protects the carry and is a and takes a damn lot of pain to pass through? :O

Please enter a damned comment to vote....

Kden

Solid Guy bro.

Just a few minor grammar thingos that I'm anal about for some reason.

"1.2 Update

Included a "Runes and Masteries section into the guide."

You forgot the other "


"Ki Strike is Shen's passive ability that does damage on hit and has a 8 second cool down."

It's "an eight second..." Oh, and "cool down" is one word: Cooldown

"Warmog's Armor is Shen's first big item and it is good to buy it as early as possible because of its passive. "

it's*

"Revive is a very underused and relatively overpowered summoner spell. Revive is usually only used on champions like Karthus because of his global ultimate and this is also the reason why it is so affective on Shen. In combination with Stand United; Revive can get you back into the fight even after you die acting as a 6th player on your team. I would not often choose Revive over other summoner spells but it can have very game changing affects if used correctly."

Affective=Effective
And the semi colon there should be replaced with a comma.


Other than that, solid guide :D

Ever tried Flash Heal shen? Gets you out of sticky as hell situations :D
Oh, and I tend to replace Atmas with Wits quite often as
A) Atmas was nerfed, wits now gives around the same stats+bonus AS and MR.
B) You have a shizzload of armor.

Only gripe I have about Wits is that it requires 4 auto attacks to be charged up, so to speak.

Ps. Aren't you the guy that plays with Brotonman41?